We’re betting on simulation to unlock the next era of robot learning.
Introducing @outworldlabs. We’re building a simulation platform for training and evaluating robot foundation models.
Collecting real-world data and testing robots is expensive and difficult to scale. Simulation offers a path forward, but it needs to reproduce real-world behavior and be easier to use.
We’re building a new physics engine for dexterous manipulation, with tools to create environments, reconstruct and augment real-world data, and scale training and evaluation in one platform.
Working on robot learning? We’d love to chat.
I know nothing really works or makes sense anymore, but you shouldn’t be able to swear in on a book which contains ideas that are antithetical to the constitution of the United States of America.
Marc Andreessen says the gap between what AI-native startups and incumbents think AI can do is "the widest he's ever seen."
His exact words: "The AI-native early stage startups have just a completely different view on what they can do with AI than the typical incumbents in almost any industry."
Not slightly different. Completely different.
That's the actual risk for large companies right now. It's not slow adoption — it's a fundamental miscalibration of what AI is capable of. The startups competing against them haven't made that mistake.
The asymmetry compounds fast. Incumbents build roadmaps around a floor. Startups build businesses around a ceiling. By the time the floor catches up to the ceiling, the market has already moved.
humans are stuck in between. that’s exactly why we owe it to them to build, leverage every tool, and iterate as fast as we can to prevent more conflict and death.
humans need incentives; you're painting an idealistic view of the world and how humans should act, but it's just not, never has been, never will be the reality in which we are operating
"he who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.” -The Prince
russia is launching hundreds of one-way attack drones a day with no answer, and your response is “pay your taxes” and “trust the government?"
we should be unleashing capital markets and 10x engineers to solve these problems at a pace governments can’t match and potentially save thousands of lives/turn the tide of battle.
the social contract between gov and industry in the US is no longer “pay your taxes, we'll protect you.” it's “fund your own development and disrupt the slow, expensive primes.” the status quo had become an existential threat, and with the AI pandora's box now open, that should be clear