Ryan Alimo

founder OpalAi ( | Fmr AI scientist @NASAJPL, @Caltech @UCSanDiego @UCLAanderson #sharifuniversity #ai #mars tweets are mine.

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

omg that is cool 🤪 but still cannot solve the wildfire problem

[Claude @claudeai]

During pre-release testing, Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 worked on ambitious projects in many different fields. Here are a few.

From a one-paragraph prompt, Fable 5.2 designed three working electronic devices, including this home voice assistant hub.

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

in the next two days wildfire is going to be high risk in the Santa Clarita, CA region as @OpalAIhq FireVision shows

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

I couldn't believe the @Waymo routing today. I like technology, but human judgment still matters.

There was construction on the other side of the street. The straight path was clearly open, and the car could have gone. Instead it changed the route and made the trip five times longer.

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

While current agentic vision focuses heavily on egocentric (first-person) views, building exocentric views and multi-agent spatial reasoning poses major open technical challenges

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

Current frontier vision models operate in 2D, meaning that as an agent walks through a scene in a video, 2D segmentation is not guaranteed to be view-consistent across frames

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

Telling a robot to “explore the room” is easy. Telling a fleet of robots to explore safely, hand off tasks when batteries run low, and never cross human-defined safety boundaries, that’s the real frontier of embodied AI. 🤖🛰️

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

Had lunch with @TaoistTerence and talked about AI, verification, and the limits of human understanding. We talked about how AI can generate far more ideas than humans can easily verify, and why optimizing what’s measurable isn’t the same as understanding what matters. The thought I keep coming back to: AI may expand the limits of human understanding, not just automate answers.

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

@RepYassAnsari Ban on superintelligance ? That is against of democracy @yassaminansari and free access to intelligence to all Americans

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

Congratulations, @odysseyml! We asked Odyssey-3 to ride a bicycle down the street, but it started riding backwards and the environment didn’t look realistic.

At @OpalAIhq, we’re collecting large volumes of street-view and cyclist-perspective data. Let us know if you’d like to explore a collaboration!

[a16z @a16z]

Josh Gruenstein of Tutor Intelligence on how to value a robot: "You take how much work a robot can do and you divide it by its cost, and that's it. Everything else is commentary."

If robots can do that work for less, he says the market is "all physical work done."

One Wall Street firm's view of the scale, in a forecast of annual robot sales:
- 2026: 29 million
- 2030: 93 million
- 2040: 605 million
- 2050: 1.4 billion

"We're just gonna have way more factories in the same way that we have way more businesses because the cloud and all of the software tooling let people build new businesses."

"Anybody will be able to start a business in the physical world. Anybody will be able to scale a business in the physical world if we kind of have this infinite flexible labor substrate."

@joshgruenstein @tutorintel

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

🏆 LA Champions!

@OpalAIhq takes 1st place at @SWCPTV’s #StartupWorldCup Los Angeles Regional!

Next stop: San Francisco Global Finals for $1M! 🚀

#StartupWorldCup #PhysicalAI

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

@ycombinator Glad to see space is hot again

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

For better wildfire risk assessment, we need good prior data to estimate ignition and spread probability!

I played with @grok and built this sticker for @RedSkySummit next week @OpalAIhq!

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

Is this the Malibu beach area after the Palisades Fire? It would be good to include real environments and potholes for more realistic settings

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Excited to share Genie 4 today our most realistic and interactive world model:

- steer dynamic environments in real time, shaping events, camera angles, and actions

- generate native audio matched to the world, from realistic background sounds to characters who can converse in real time!

- simulate photorealistic scenes and real-world physics

- create more coherent multi-step events through reasoning from Gemini

We've started to roll out as a research preview to trusted testers. Coming soon to Google AI Ultra subscribers in Project Genie and early access partners via the Gemini API and AI Studio.

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

@KatiaAmeri @pinakpaliwal Would love to put this to the test on our drone and LiDAR data @Locamage. What input resolutions and file sizes does it support?

[Ryan Alimo @RyanAlimo]

My life has changed since I started using AI agents in my workflow! The power of AI agents is mind blowing🤯

[bg2clips @bg2clips]

🛰️ @elonmusk wants 10 gigawatts of compute by the end of 2027. @JensenHuang says Nvidia now counts @SpaceX alongside its cloud provider customers, and the two companies' engineers are designing a server for space:

"In the two parts of our chart, Elon used to be under enterprise. That's the way we reported the numbers. Now he's part of our CSPs... They're massive.

He's using our technology for his own AI in training models and such, deploying models, of course... And the demand for GrokBot, the consumption for GrokBot is really skyrocketing. And then, of course, he rents it. And so the combination of these three things, he's fairly unique in doing that...

He loves the intersection between computing and the physical build-outs... And nobody knows more about energy than he does.

And one particular new market that we're going to go explore together is putting data centers out in space. So our two engineering teams are working super closely together to create a new type of server, a new type of architecture that might be super good... in space and on Earth."

— @JensenHuang, CEO of @nvidia on @BG2Pod with @altcap

[a16z @a16z]

Ben Horowitz on treating your story as your strategy, and why founders often skip writing it even though it's one of the most important parts of the job:

"The story of the company is also the strategy of the company... In your mind, you're kind of adjusting that strategy a little bit at a time every day. But then a quarter later, it's actually pretty different than what you started with."

"So it's really important that you keep upgrading your story. The articulation of your story. I would definitely recommend it be in written form."

"Something that you can share with everybody in the company, and everybody you're recruiting, everybody you're trying to raise money from, all your constituents, every customer."

"The problem that I think founders have is it doesn't feel like work. Like, 'What are you doing today?' 'I'm working on my story.' That doesn't sound like work."

"Because it doesn't feel like work, people don't do it, but it's probably one of the most important parts of the job."

@bhorowitz w/ @speedrun GP @Tocelot

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Turns out the future does have flying cars