won 2nd place + $15k this weekend at the @mercor_ai x @Etched x @cognition_labs hackathon!
our team (@spikecodes @JoshVall529@timobraz and I ) built codeshot, the pixel-perfect AI frontend engineer.
🧵 on our approach & what’s next:
Interlatent is a platform to teleoperate, record, train, and run all your robots in one place
Run models like MolmoAct2 and pi0.5 on any robot under an hour of setup.
You can access v0 today.
Yes! my solo-authored paper Reward Hacking Benchmark was accepted to ICML :)))
We put LLM agents in a tool-rich sandbox, give them multi-step workflows, and measure when they solve the intended task vs take unexpected shortcuts (like monkeypatching files at runtime!)
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Introducing Lemma.
Your AI agents are failing in ways you can’t see.
Lemma is the world’s first reliability platform that finds and fixes these issues fast.
Today, we are announcing Proximal. Proximal is a research lab for data. Our core belief is that data which is complex enough to teach today’s frontier models is not bottlenecked by domain experts, but by great ideas and excellent software.
We are excited about a world in which coding agents can autonomously run for multiple weeks, solve the hardest technical problems and discover novel ideas that advance progress in various domains of science and engineering.
We believe that we are not far from this future, but that the biggest bottleneck preventing us from achieving it is training data.
Many companies work on data, but most of them are approaching it the wrong way. Historical capability breakthroughs are the result of creative engineers discovering scalable data collection methods, not thousands of contractors manually writing task demonstrations.
Inevitably, the potential impact of human data will become smaller and smaller as model capabilities increase: agents are already outperforming most humans in many domains - the number of experts that are capable of judging model outputs shrinks with every new model release.
Proximal is a new data company. We are not a recruiting firm or a talent marketplace, but a research and engineering organization that treats data as a problem which deserves the same level of rigor as work on training algorithms and model architectures.
We think that this is the most impactful work towards agents that can autonomously solve complex technical problems, and intend to share our research and progress in the open.
Just last summer, @Netic_AI raised our Seed round. Today, we’re announcing our Series B, led by @foundersfund with @GreylockVC, @hanabicapital, and @zoink. Thank you for tripling down since day zero.
We 4x’ed our team with relentless builders from Scale, Databricks, HRT, Meta, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard.
But while Silicon Valley accolades are nice, what really matters to us is delivering value for our customers in the real world. In the last year, Netic helped our customers book hundreds of thousands of jobs across services industries in North America, and has become the AI revenue engine for industries that run our country.
There are now companies operating entirely AI-first on @Netic_AI. Our focus remains unchanged: powering the industries that are the backbone of the American economy.
Read more on Bloomberg @business below—and tune into Bloomberg Technology at 8:40AM PT.
If you want to bring AI to the real world, come build with us.
@Netic_AI was named to the 2025’s #Disruptors60 out of thousands of #AI companies, curated by Greenfield Partners and live @Techcrunch! 🎉
At @Netic_AI, our mission is clear: be the AI revenue engine for essential services industries that keep America running. This global list recognizes the most innovative startups turning #AI into real world impact.
We’re just getting started. The future is being built right here. Join us. 👉 https://t.co/AOGoITu5hN
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