Vish Sivakumar

AI research and engineering. Something new.
Past: @RealityLabs (Neural Interfaces), @AIatMeta (FAIR).

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

📢 @JoshMerel (CTO, @faunarobotics ( Acq by @Amazon) is joining Deploying Robotics and Embodied AI panel @southpkcommons June 4th

Alongside:
@evanbeard (CEO, @standardbots)
CTO, @Ultraroboticsco
@PimDeWitte (CEO, @gen_intuition)
@22Astronauts_

CC @IlirAliu_ @newyorkrobotics

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

@jeffreyseely I hear it's hot again these days

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

@krandiash Congrats @krandiash!

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

Same for "frontier lab". You don't "found a frontier lab", you have to do the work until you become one.

[Nathan Lambert @natolambert]

@reflection_ai i want y'all to succeed but it's a little self-serving to say "America's open source AI lab" having released nothing

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

@nathanbenaich I remember the days of “C/C++”

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

https://t.co/5Fbk9sdOiq now reads well ahead of its time.

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

@sainingxie @georgiagkioxari @ylecun @amilabs Congratulations @sainingxie and team!

[Fauna Robotics @faunarobotics]

We’ve published our first technical report on Sprout.

Our paper outlines the design choices behind a lightweight, compliant humanoid platform built to operate safely in human environments and the system architecture that makes experimentation possible.

https://t.co/qCJaYQSUZ2

[Carlos DP 🤖🇺🇸 @carlosdponx]

My favorite part of the Sprout launch video is when he demonstrates soft compliance of the robot by lifting his little leg.

Tells me they're perhaps the first ones to implement soft compliance in a humanoid product, similar to FACET, SoftMimic, etc.

Overall, the policies demonstrated, even though the behavior was basic, impressed me even more than the robot (though it is a very cuddly robot)

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

Congratulations, @faunarobotics team!

[Fauna Robotics @faunarobotics]

Meet Sprout.

Today, we’re releasing a new kind of robotics platform. One designed to move out of the lab and into the real world, closer to the people who will shape what robots become next. [1/4]

[Fauna Robotics @faunarobotics]

Join us tomorrow for an exciting announcement.

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

Excited for this!

[Fauna Robotics @faunarobotics]

Something new, coming soon

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Dishoom's quality at scale is so impressive. The King's Cross branch has 340 seats; it has 15 branches across seven cities; it has lots of Deliveroo dark kitchens. As far as I can tell, it maintains a high quality bar across all of this. *And* it is hugely popular – the King's Cross branch was heaving last night, in mid-January, and Americans love it. Incredible success!

[Boz @boztank]

Rolling out some awesome updates to Meta Ray-Ban Display, like teleprompter (clutch for public speaking) and EMG handwriting in early access. EMG handwriting is one of the best examples of how you and AI can co-evolve to develop over time a personalized input scheme that makes it faster and more reliable. Excited at the progress we continue to make ✍️

[Yuandong Tian @tydsh]

That's the problem. People who are responsible for the issues are not the people who got laid off😅 In January, our team put down all the research we are currently doing, was (forced?) to move to GenAI <2 months before the llama 4 release deadline to help with all the post-training dirty works, figures out and fixes lots of problems after the release, and then get laid off later.

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

I have looked up to Yuandong’s work from afar since ELF-OpenGo. Axing fundamental research in an era where even a single unexpected breakthrough could determine winners/losers feels shortsighted.

[Yuandong Tian @tydsh]

Several of my team members + myself are impacted by this layoff today. Welcome to connect :)

[Awni Hannun @awnihannun]

I always thought the decline in fundamental AI research funding would happen because AI didn’t generate enough value to be worth the cost.

But it seems like it’s happening because it generated too much value. And the race to capture that value is taking priority.

Just remembering that a lot of this started in curiosity driven industry research labs.

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

@nntsn And more often than not, it's also how you gain respect/trust :)

[Vish Sivakumar @_vishar]

@JeffDean @labarroso Congratulations, I remember thoroughly enjoying reading the paper ~11 years ago!