Antonio Stano

founding eng @ ai startup in zurich

[antirez @antirez]

Fatal flaw

[gabriel @gabriel1]

learning for the sake of learning is fake

humanity have some brain poison mindset "oh are you working on X now? i thought you studied thing Y"

any finance, lawyer, programmer, etc learned 98% of skills at their jobs. the only hard part is getting the job. the world is yours

[antirez @antirez]

This is the society we need to face. If you read my blog post it is full of errors and not a single word was written by AI. People hallucinating as usually.

[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.

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

@benedictk__ 🙋‍♂️ for zurich

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

see you in sf

[Hardeep @hardeep_gambhir]

if you're ever in doubt whether to apply to that fellowship, that job, or asking someone out.

just know that Aidan Gomez once applied to a Grad role at Google Brain as an undergad, the recruiter missed he was an undergrad and he ended up co-authoring the paper "attention is all you need"

off of a clerical mistake. @aidangomez correct me if i am wrong but i find it truly one of the wildest examples of "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

source: an interview of aidan gomez i watched a year back

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

@mittal_rahil was building exactly this: https://t.co/CG1dCEimqI

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

almost 300 stars on github!
https://t.co/Enh7IuOZIL

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

got hired as a founding engineer in a startup in zurich, moving there soon

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

@ludovico_bessi nice to see you on X :)

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

POV: you vibe coded something a little too good and now Sama is sliding into the DMs for an acqui-hire

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

free startup idea

https://t.co/CG1dCEimqI

[Amy Tam @amytam01]

https://t.co/b9f99xbcMx

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

@criccomini @BenjDicken @martinkl Own and loved the first edition, truly the bible for system design. What will this new edition bring to the table?

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

@karpathy @karpathy trying to build this

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

@furan up

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

give a voice to your agents and talk with them

https://t.co/nitx3i4htm

[Antonio Stano @ent0n29]

https://t.co/XsjoOcDoMz

[kepano @kepano]

if you're wondering why this or that feature hasn't been added to Obsidian, remember we only have three full-time developers (and not trying to grow the team)