Danny Steiner

Building a future powered by atoms and idealism. Father of three, pragmatist at heart.

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

Congress passed a nuclear energy bill 88–2.
Red and blue governors are siting reactors.
Tech giants are investing.
I wrote about how fission might be teaching us to build together again: https://t.co/VAGpkIXjIG

⚛️ #nuclear #energy #abundance @oklo @caorilne

[Bernt Bornich @BerntBornich]

We’re going all in on World Models.

Today we’re launching the 1X World Model Lab.

The bet is simple:

You can’t fine-tune your way to AGI.

And you definitely can’t fine-tune your way to robots that can operate in the physical world.

General-purpose humanoids need models that understand space, motion, objects, causality, affordances, physics, and action before they ever see a specific task.

The frontier is not better VLA wrappers.

The frontier is embodied world models.

The 1X World Model Lab will focus on large-scale embodied world model pretraining: building the most generalizable foundation model for humanoid robots from the ground up.

The next frontier in AI requires scaling:

web-scale media + egocentric human videos + sim + dexterous remote operated robot data + on-policy NEO data → real-world deployment for robot data collection and RL → abundance of data → physical AI

The robot collects data.
The model gets better.
The robot gets better.
Repeat.

To lead this, we brought in one of the best for the mission: @_sam_sinha_ , as Head of World Models.

Sam was a founding research scientist at Luma AI and has been at the frontier of scaling multimodal generative video models his whole career.

If you’re the best in the world at large-scale pretraining, video models, robotics, RL, infra, or data — and you want your models to move atoms, not just pixels — join us.

Send background + evidence of exceptional ability to:

[email protected]

We’re building the model that makes autonomous labor real.

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

What Past Tech Revolutions Teach Us About AI https://t.co/k5JQv6SCEz

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

Wrote a longer piece on this shift:
“The Return of the Physical World”
https://t.co/e1EhT110o8

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

The AI boom is pulling us back into the physical world.

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

The bottlenecks are shifting:

Not just algorithms
→ but energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure.

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

Anyone else (re)reading The Grrat Gatsby for its centennial thanks to @mikiebarb ? It’s probably been over twenty years since I first read it and it’s a delightful revisit! Definitely hits differently this read around. #thegreatgatsby

[Joe Rambo @RamboAndFrens]

I'd like to officially nominate this guy for Father of the year. 🤣🤣

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

@garyseconomics how would you recommend taking action on this issue of income inequality other than spreading the good word and your wisdom?

[World Nuclear News @W_Nuclear_News]

.@oklo is to collaborate with @Vertiv on advanced power and thermal management solutions tailored specifically for hyperscale and co-location data centres, powered by steam and electricity from Oklo's advanced #nuclear power plants https://t.co/Rf2if37mKL

[Oklo @oklo]

Oklo and Liberty Energy partnering to combine nuclear, gas, and grid services into a single solution for data centers and industrial customers.

A next-generation energy model backed by deep operational experience and built for scale.

For more important information: 
https://t.co/yCjcLF8Egi

[Oklo @oklo]

“The world has really changed in the last four weeks with over $1.1 billion in investment, including Oklo ... Given the traction and tailwinds from the executive orders ... if there are opportunities to go faster and scale more quickly, we'll explore those,” Oklo co-founder and CEO Jacob DeWitte tells @BloombergTV.

https://t.co/De6zstlg5H

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

Poll finds global public support for nuclear remains high - World Nuclear News https://t.co/6fJ3hgSwCU

[Nuclear Hazelnut 👷🏻‍♀️ @NuclearHazelnut]

Happy Holidays 🎄✨

[Oklo @oklo]

On this day, December 20, 1951, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-I (EBR-I) became the first reactor to generate usable electricity! 💡

Its successor, the EBR-II, operated for decades and paved the way for Oklo's fast reactor design.

Learn more about this demonstrated technology with over 400 combined years of operational experience:

https://t.co/cm8cE6apDO

[Danny Steiner @DannySteiner]

DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from Data Centers | Department of Energy https://t.co/28hBX3VTRa

[Brian Gitt @BrianGitt]

The AI boom needs nuclear power.

Oklo and Switch are teaming up to deploy 12 GW of advanced nuclear power, marking one of the largest corporate clean power agreements in history.

12 GW = the annual electricity usage of ~10 million US households.

https://t.co/UlrHVdKeWt