Michael DeMaria

Building Coast AI | Previously at Serent Capital, Union Square, & Moelis

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@lukas_m_ziegler Is there a less technical book you’d recommend to get a relatively up to date introduction on robotics?

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@s8mb Sad cats

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@KyleVedder @emily_yu Hell yeah brother

[Vai Viswanathan @vai_viswanathan]

It was fun building Alfred Café as part of this hackathon!

@earthtojake @noomb00m @ProbablyNoam @demaria_michael @nurcannsonmezz

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@vai_viswanathan @earthtojake @noomb00m @ProbablyNoam @nurcannsonmezz Who doesn��t love mosh mellows

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

Highly recommend this

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

I promise this will be the best 20 min you spend today! Robotics: Endgame, the sequel to my last year's Sequoia AI Ascent talk, "Physical Turing Test". I laid out the roadmap for solving Physical AGI as a simple parallel to the LLM success story. Be a good scientist, copy homework ;)

And stay till the end, more easter eggs and predictions for your polymarket!

00:30 DGX-1 origin story at OpenAI, I was there in 2016 signing with Jensen and Elon. Heading to the Computer History Museum!
01:42 The Great Parallel
03:31 Robotics, the Endgame
03:39 Why VLAs fall short
04:32 Video world models as the 2nd pretraining paradigm
06:09 World Action Models (WAM)
07:46 Strategies for robot data collection and the FSD equivalent to physical data flywheel for robot manipulation
11:06 EgoScale and the Dexterity Scaling Law we discovered recently
14:00 Physical RL: bridging the last mile
15:39 DreamDojo: an end-to-end neural physics engine for scaling RL in silico
17:00 Civilizational Technology Tree and my predictions for the near future. Spoiler: it's closer than you think.

Thanks to my friends at Sequoia for inviting me back to AI Ascent this year! I had a blast! Last year's talk is attached in the thread if you missed it.

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@DrJimFan Agreed. This was a great video.

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@MillionInt Idk. I could think of some situations where it would be cool:

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@AnjneyMidha What role models are causing this mindset?

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@vai_viswanathan Aside from what you wrote, anything else you recommend?

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@andrew__reed Seems to be a universal complaint amongst IB analysts

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@AnjneyMidha What’s your long term mission?

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@rlfromlux This is awesome. Really interesting problems the company is focused on. I’m envious of your spot.

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@jparkjmc Feel the AGI

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@tlbtlbtlb I feel more stupider now for buying Heinz

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@adamsilverman @theagentfund @spencermateega and @CarlosGeorgescu are doing this at @AfterQuery

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@Tetraslam -prod.so
-Morehead-Cain scholars

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@ProfPaulNary Well at least the list is short...

Thanks for the recs. I'll check out that Helfat paper.

[Michael DeMaria @demaria_michael]

@oier_mees @scott_e_reed @ETH Sweet. Scott’s worked on some cool projects. Looking forward to this.