Lily Shen

Founder & Chairman @ Dimension. Head of Ops @ stealth robotics startup.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Jensen deserves due process, not whatever is happening right now. I signed.

#standwithjensen

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

I just signed. Bring back Jensen or show some real evidence Ms Huang was a spy. #standwithjensen #bringjensenback https://t.co/2GTI2qdMSw

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Bombshell story. The spy narrative is collapsing already.

Is there clear & convincing evidence that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy?

- AG says no. (“no conclusions reached”).
- CIA says no. (“not yet convinced”).
- DNI says no (“not entirely accurate and over-torqued”).
- Ranking Democrat on House Intelligence (incoming Chairman) says no. (“today, at least, I don’t know”). This was immediately after he was briefed.

Who argues otherwise? Anonymous officials tell CNN “it strains credulity to believe that she was not acting as an agent of the Chinese government — simply by virtue of the fact that she is a successful Chinese businesswoman working with one of America’s most powerful companies.”

This is their proof after a year of investigating and surveillance? That she was a “successful Chinese businesswoman”?

At this point, the only crime that we know for sure happened is the leaking of the classified memo. Who did that and why?

An investigation should be opened.

[zack @zack_overflow]

BREAKING: hundreds of NVIDIA employees have signed an internal letter demanding the reinstatement of Jensen Huang as CEO and the resignation of the board

[Nurcan Sonmez @CoRL @nurcannsonmezz]

In Austin for CoRL? Orchestral Labs is hard at work building the fastest inference platform for robotics. Come hear our vision this Wednesday at Physical AI Night with @CRV and @lancedb. https://t.co/zTLHdjvCSI

[Sam Padilla @theSamPadilla]

After 2+ years in the robotics data space, we are shutting @Eidon_AI down.

The thesis was right. But the business is brutally hard.

We close this chapter by open-sourcing everything we built and sharing lessons for anyone venturing into the space. https://t.co/pyL9IkjQPT

[Anto Patrex (r/aw) @antopatrex1]

sim-to-real is the dirty secret every robotics startup prays you don't ask about. your policy runs flawlessly in isaac sim, 99.8% grasp rate, beautiful logs. then you put it on real hardware and the cardboard is wet, the lighting shifted 20 degrees, and your gripper is suddenly confused by a crinkled label. the gap between sim and reality is just chaos that nobody's figured out how to parameterize yet.

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

Time to unwind Amzn if you haven’t.

[CuriousCat13F @CuriousCat13F]

😼 @WarrenBuffett just dropped Berkshire's Q4 2025 13F — and $AMZN got SLASHED. Cut by 77.2%. That's not a trim. That's a near-exit. The Oracle of Omaha is walking away from Amazon. 👀

https://t.co/GFDDAoQk5o

#BigMoney #13F

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

Thanks for the shoutout to Dimension (https://t.co/XLKHkShowj)

[Ruth Simpton @RSimpton325]

The 2026 VC Disruptor watchlist: early stage startups who are building something to challenge an industry vertical and could sprint from Seed → Series A → Series B faster than expected.

One thing I’m always looking for in venture: outliers, these are founders doing something different. Not just improving an existing workflow, but creating entirely new ones. Some of these are YC companies but many aren't (if you are attending demo day dm me and we can try to meet).

A few 2025/2026 seed or early stage startups + founders that stand out:

Letta: Founders from Berkeley's sky compute lag. Infrastructure for persistent AI agents, giving models memory and state so they can operate continuously.

Daydream: AI-native product design tools building the future of open source, real time ai video and world models. @DaydreamLiveAI

Comfy: Node based stable diffusion. Tools for building and managing generative AI workflows and model pipelines. @yoland_yan @kshenster

Dimension: Princeton alum and founder of Trash Warrior. Tech enabled, full service waste management on demand. @LilyDShen

Juna AI: Uses AI to optimize complex industrial systems across manufacturing and energy, improving efficiency and operational decision making.

Kled AI: A marketplace for licensable multimodal datasets, helping AI developers access high-quality proprietary training data. @avipat_

Rostra: Founded by ex Activision + Shopify board member. A professional network designed to make high-signal introductions easier. @lulumeservey

Variant: Former hedge fund analysts with advisors from Citadel and Goldman Sachs, building the next-generation of public and private markets. @VariantMkt

Maneva: AI copilots for industrial operations that analyze sensor and production data to identify inefficiencies and optimize performance. @paigefinnn

ProjectX: A developer-focused platform building next-generation tools for building and deploying AI-powered applications.

https://t.co/Qye7UvjM2F: USC alum and ex YC building cursor for dating, an AI-native platform that helps users generate messages, manage conversations, and modernize online dating. @jonathanzliu

a0dev: Autonomous development infrastructure designed to help AI systems write, test, and deploy production-ready code. @sethsetse

LemonSlice: Ex MIT + Harvard Med. Reinventing customer interactions with video. Allows anyone to create interactive video agents. @lina_colucci @snowmaker @garrytan

Browserbase: Infrastructure for running automated browsers in the cloud, enabling AI agents and automation workflows to interact with the web reliably. @linderps @AaronLevine_

Corgi: AI tools focused on simplifying development workflows and accelerating how teams build and ship software. @erikalee @brookeleblanc

Anja Health: Modern infrastructure for cord blood banking and stem cell preservation with a consumer-focused experience. @kathrynjc7

Rork: Lovable for mobile apps. Create native mobile applications with mobile specific features. @rork @tkexpress11

Feel free to drop a description of anyone I'm missing you think highly of. My DM's are open to anyone who wants to connect. And yes a few of these companies are YC, so if anyone is attending DemoDay and wants to meet up around then, msg me.

-Ruth

@joher @ColinGardiner @_ram_ @pitdesi @iankar_ @saranormous @naval @eladgil @jordihays @FurqanR @aileenlee @Jillwillnyc @brycent @HarryStebbings @jaminball @nihalmehta @MollySOShea

[Sam Altman @sama]

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only.

We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements.

We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

@HenryLSchuck @patrick_oshag @HenryLSchuck I run a startup https://t.co/XLKHkShowj that was trying Zoominfo last year. I told salesperson Ben a few times over the year we did not want the contract to be renewed. However, I learned Zoominfo will not honor Ben's words citing he just left the company. Pls help

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

@HenryLSchuck @HenryLSchuck I run a startup https://t.co/XLKHkShowj that was trying Zoominfo last year. I told salesperson Ben a few times over the year we did not want the contract to be renewed. However, I learned Zoominfo will not honor Ben's words citing he just left the company. Pls help

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

@ZoomInfo @ZoomInfo, I run a startup https://t.co/XLKHkShowj that was trying Zoominfo last year. I told salesperson Ben a few times over the year we did not want the contract to be renewed. However, I learned Zoominfo will not honor Ben's words citing he just left the company. Can you fix

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

@ZoomInfo @ZoomInfo, I run a startup https://t.co/XLKHkShowj that was trying Zoominfo last year. I told salesperson Ben a few times over the year we did not want the contract to be renewed. However, I learned Zoominfo will not honor Ben's words citing he just left the company. Can you fix

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

@ZoomInfo @ZoomInfo, I run a startup https://t.co/XLKHkShowj that was trying Zoominfo last year. I told salesperson Ben a few times over the year we did not want the contract to be renewed. However, I learned Zoominfo will not honor Ben's words citing he just left the company. Can you fix

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

@emmaytang @stripe thank you Emma for helping me surfacing this issue. Hope it will be noticed and resolved!

[Lily Shen @LilyDShen]

We at https://t.co/XLKHkSgQGL have been using @stripe to facilitate payments for the past 4 years. Experienced really bad support as well as CSM experience recently, despite being a sizable account. Super frustrated by repeated frauds. Can you help me pls? @edwinwee