Maxwelllwang

Founder a16z Speedrun | ex SpaceX | ex Tesla intern

[Maxwelllwang @maxwelllwang]

@karpovlabs How are you controlling the dji neo? didn't know there was an SDK

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[Maxwelllwang @maxwelllwang]

@MickyAbir What’s your advice for single object tracking through occlusions/ target reacquisition?

[kwindla @kwindla]

#7 in our series of 25 Multimodal Demos for 2025: Building with Gemini 2.0 and Pipecat

Aerial Intelligence, from @maxwelllwang

Voice-controlled drones with sophisticated instruction following, navigation, object detection and tracking, and more. Maxwell calls this Jarvis in the sky.

Built with @Google Gemini 2.0, @nvidia Jetson, and @pipecat_ai.

You can hear Maxwell laugh to himself, in the video, when he says "start looking for an old USPS truck."

How much fun is it to live in a future where a multimodal LLM can interpret such an incredibly specific, yet open-ended and unplanned, visual query?

[Joe Heitzeberg @jheitzeb]

Maxwell Wang, Starlink innovator at @SpaceX, is revolutionizing drones into IoT platforms—flying Linux computers powered by 5G and real-time AI. 🚁

Imagine drones with unlimited range, seamless tracking, and the possibility of Starlink connectivity.

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[Maxwelllwang @maxwelllwang]

@FoodyBrian @kwindla @trydaily @pipecat_ai Positioning is done by GPS, vision is for scene understanding and basic navigation if prompted

[Maxwelllwang @maxwelllwang]

“Flying” a drone while I drive
Full video on YouTube https://t.co/DvSCzO8nrX

[kwindla @kwindla]

And one last award from the Real-time Voice and Video Hackathon — the special judges' prize for best use of Open Source software (and models) ...

@maxwelllwang's drone pilot project: voice AI + multiple computer vision models + navigation + complex function calling + a hand-built drone/@nvidia Jetson aircraft.

Congratulations @maxwelllwang. It's really, really fun to see the things you create.

[Maxwelllwang @maxwelllwang]

Watch a AI Drone respond to an active structure fire

[Maxwelllwang @maxwelllwang]

Introducing Dispatcher, an AI drone pilot that understands instructions, what it sees and actually flies itself.