Edward Miller

Navigating through uncertainty. Prev Contextual AI @Meta RLR. Co-founder & CEO @Scape, acquired by @Facebook. Dad of two.

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

After 5½ years, yesterday marked my last day at Meta.

For those who may not know, I joined via the acquisition of my previous company, where we set out to build a continuously-updating 3D model of the world, enabling devices to understand where they are and what’s around them.

Together with @hulahuub, we believed a unified frame of reference was key to unlocking the next generation of spatial computing applications, from augmented reality to robotics. While we may have been early, it's clear the Cambrian explosion is now beginning—driven by general-purpose AI and a growing network of context-rich sensors.

At Meta, we continued that mission with LiveMaps: a visually, semantically, and physically predictive model of the world, collaboratively built by the devices that use it. It’s a bold vision led by @rapideRobot, and I’ve been incredibly lucky to work alongside him, @mingfeiy, @jajuengel, and the broader Surreal team in Reality Labs Research.

Despite a rocky start (we joined in Jan 2020 👀), I’m proud of the impact we had—kickstarting the @meta_aria academic program, and leading open science efforts to accelerate AI and ML research.

I’m especially proud of our work on the Aria Synthetic Environments and Aria Digital Twin datasets, which pushed the envelope for digital twin research and highlighted the importance of both real and simulated data for Spatial AI. Our team’s work on SceneScript demonstrated the first method for auto-regressively predicting the structure of an environment using end-to-end learning—recently extended by SpatialLM: https://t.co/1BAzXuq8yI

Last year, my family and I relocated to Redmond, Seattle, to spend time closer to Reality Labs Research HQ. While there, I had the chance to tick off a career ambition: delivering a “Mother of All Demos” to MZ and the board. This demo will stand among the defining breakthroughs in human-computer interaction and I’m bullish to watch how the company will execute over the next decade.

As for what’s next, my wife and I recently had our second child, and I’m taking some time to reset back in London—recalibrate my sensors, defrag my hard drive. As a colleague put it: “The grass is always greenest where you water it.” I’m looking forward to doing exactly that here in Europe— taking some time to spend with family and reflecting on the next big thing.

If you're a founder, researcher, or operator working at the edge, please ping me a message, I’d love to connect.

LFG! 🚀🇬🇧💪

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

That might have overtaken the Google Glass skydive in my ranking of most ambitious tech demos ever.

A truly awesome feat of engineering.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

It's over.

We achieved PSS (Personal Superintelligent Shitposting)

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

you cannot out-shitpost me

(with the help of muse wonder full)

[Nathan Benaich @nathanbenaich]

welcome to the 9th annual @stateofai report!

ai building better ai, world models, physical ai, geopolitics, cyber defense and 12-month predictions.

read it at stateof(dot)ai or watch my editor’s cut here.

a few of this year’s biggest findings follow:

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

@mvernal Not just Amazon and e-commerce businesses, under fixed subscription terms, but premium content access across the web, including the option to pay at the point of need, priced at the value it provides for the task the agent is trying to accomplish.

[Elliott Round @ElliottRound]

The friction test ⚡️

🧩Our IsaacSim / Omniverse plug-in automatically find the assets you need in your marso library and even builds out test sutites

@nvidiaomniverse

#isaacsim #omniverse #physicalai #simready

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

Good to see @alexandr_wang carrying on Yann's tradition of keeping Meta’s comms team on their toes.

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

state of the art motherfuckers

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

.@Muse might actually be the closest instantiation of the metaverse we've seen to-date.

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

@the_shweenz @Muse Or the time to use one e.g. tradespeople who are excellent at their trade but would greatly benefit from help with marketing/coordination etc

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

Estimated annual total dollar value of items sold on FB Marketplace is >$100B (far bigger than eBay).

The most painful part is the messaging/negotiations.

When those negotiations start happening through @Muse, and earns a %, faces will melt. $META

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

Very exciting to watch this play out

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Introducing Muse, the personal agent that understands your goals and works 24/7 to get things done for you.

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

@SebJohnsonUK @_rockt @PalantirTech Genuine question - was there evidence that they 'held the budget'?

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

@NwprtNarrative Do not go gentle into economic stagnation. Rage 🔥

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

This is pivot is punchy 👀

[Improbable @Improbableio]

This is one of the reasons we made the decision to change our business model to venture building. 🚀

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

🔥

[Isa @isausmanov]

Keyboard is the first thing AI should replace on our phones, not apps.

Instead of typing, my agentic phone uses context from my messages, calendar, and files to suggest 2 - 3 replies I'm likely to send.

When I do need to say something new, I dictate it and the phone converts it in my texting style.

[Society for Technological Advancement @sotalikesfuture]

Join us over some drinks and food. We'll explore these questions and ask what the autonomous knowledge economy should look like before its defaults are chosen for us. We’ll be joined by Kush Madlani (CTO, https://t.co/RM1NYXeaoK), @TweetEdMiller (founder, ex-Meta Reality Labs Research), and additional guests.

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

How will knowledge be valued, traded, and trusted, when the participants are AI agents?

That's the question we're putting in the room at the next Frontiers Night, in London next Wednesday, with @sotalikesfuture

Read more below and join us!

https://t.co/hYKoC1S1NE

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

Arthur C. Clarke strikes again!

[Maxime Rivest 🧙‍♂️🦙🐧 @MaximeRivest]

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.

My prompts fade, a LLM respond.

Magical!

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

What it feels like to tell some people about AI

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

📣 In London later this month, I'm organizing an event on "Autonomous Knowledge Economy", where we'll exploring themes around agentic information discovery.

Who else should be in the room?

[Edward Miller @TweetEdMiller]

Excellent commitment to the bit

[slash1s @slash1sol]

A DEVELOPER WALKED ON STAGE DRESSED AS A 1973 ENGINEER AND "PREDICTED" THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMMING. THE TWIST: EVERYTHING HE DESCRIBED WAS ALREADY INVENTED 40 YEARS EARLIER AND WE STILL REFUSE TO USE IT.

32 minutes from Bret Victor, doing the most quietly savage talk on our entire industry.

-> The idea that lands: we write code as step-by-step text instructions and call that "Just how programming is". He shows four better ways -- all discovered in the 60s and 70s, all abandoned.

Manipulate the data directly instead of typing blind code. Tell the machine your goal instead of every tiny step. We saw all this, then walked away.

Why? The moment you're sure you know what programming is, you stop seeing anything better. That certainty is the cage.

And now AI is dragging us back to exactly what he begged for -- you describe the goal in plain words, the machine works out the how. The future he mourned is arriving anyway.

You thought text files were just how code works. This is the talk that shows it was a choice, and maybe the wrong one.

Watch this one. It'll ruin how you see your job ↓