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We help founders explore & build new companies in Physical AI through a powerful network, hardware lab & funding.

[savant @savant_vc]

Happening today!

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

Announcing our next event at @savant_vc: The Scaling Laws of Physical Intelligence, June 29th in SF

Co-hosted with Tola Capital, this is one of the highest signal event that we've put together.

Confirmed speakers include:
@BrianYN , Co-founder and CEO of MaxInsights
@AndrewDai , Co-founder and CEO, Elorian AI & former director of research, Google DeepMind
@RohunSaxena , Senior AI Engineer, Figure
@peide_huang, Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Attendees include researchers from PI, Mind Robotics, Sunday Robotics, Stanford Phd & more.

Supported by @lighthousehq_

link below 👇

[Riya Baviskar @RiyaBaviskar]

I am judging The Embodied Metal Hackathon by @MissionRobotBay and @savant_vc!

Excited to see builders take on real robotics tasks with real robots over a focused weekend in SF. Come build 🚀
https://t.co/9AldeQFt4d

[Mattie Fairchild @Scav]

San Francisco! I'm hosting a robotics hackathon for the most badass physical AI founders in the bay area.

Want to hack a metal arm to do something weird? Every team will have one to jam with. Fancy a humanoid? We've got one. There's probably some awesome stuff you can do with the hands we have lying around.

- ML/AI specialist and wish you could stick your neural nets inside a body? Come hack.
- Stablemaster of the largest herd of coding agents this side of the Mississippi? Point your harness at our robots.
- Can what you make be qualified as 'mad science'? I want to see it.
- Physical AI founder who wants to put your product to the test on a new embodiment? I promise to help break it.

We're putting special work into onboarding, a bootcamp, day-of support, and more than a few surprises. Most importantly, you'll be hacking alongside leading builders in Embodied AI.

Special thanks to @savant_vc for manifesting the idea, to @modal for providing compute, to @NorthstarRobots for their wells of data, and @newtheoryai for the space, chalkboards, and stack.

Space is super limited. My attention can be caught by engaging with this here tweet. I can't guarantee you'll get in if you comment something brilliant, but it will help your chances.

[Miki S-Y @mikisafr]

We're cohosting the The Embodied Metal Hackathon!

Happening Jul 17-19 in San Francisco's Mission. Three days, lots of robots, and the best hackers across Physical AI.🤖

Hosts and sponsors: @MissionRobotBay, @savant_vc, @NewTheoryAI, and @NorthstarRobots, with compute from @modal.

Space is limited, so apply early:
https://t.co/cscXRc4fgj

[savant @savant_vc]

Builder energy will be off the chart 📈 🔥

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

@savant_vc is co-hosting a robotics hackathon!

announcing: the embodied metal hackathon! hosted by mission robotics and savant, with compute from modal.

happening Jul 17-19 in san francisco's mission.

founders & builders, show us what you can build over a weekend! hardware will be provided! link below👇️

[savant @savant_vc]

https://t.co/EI7pe5X3vU

[savant @savant_vc]

Almost at capacity: sign up!

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

[Ramen & Robot: Physical AI Founder Meetup]

We at @savant_vc are co-hosting a physical AI founder meet up with @scalevp on June 24th, during SF @deeptechweek!

Supported by @lighthousehq_ & @rhobusiness

Let's have delicious ramen, watch robot demos & chat about embodied AI. Almost at capacity, link below 👇

[Scale Venture Partners @scalevp]

We're inviting operators building the future of Physical AI across robotics, autonomy, manufacturing, and defense for an evening of high-level conversations over ramen, co-hosted with our friends at @join_savant.

If you're a founder, engineer, or researcher building in Physical AI and want to connect with other like-minded builders, this is for you.

San Francisco (register to see location), Wednesday, June 24, 5:30 - 9:00 p.m. PT

Sign up here: https://t.co/olvCUYAuWN

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

What an epic night! Thanks for coming everyone!

@bznotes @join_savant

[Luke Eure @LukeEure]

@bznotes: as a kid my family ran a factory. When the machine had a problem, only one employee knew how to fix it. When that person quit the factory was quiet for a week.

Having the right talent in place is not optional

[Nikhil Kumar @nikhilkr]

@bznotes: "The cost of intelligence is going to go down tremendously!"

The question is how do we make it possible for robotics?

Great event by @join_savant @lighthousehq_

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

[Almost at capacity for Choose Good Quests next Tuesday in SF]

Most of the world’s GDP: manufacturing, logistics, energy, defense, construction, transportation, agriculture, is still fundamentally physical.

Physical AI is entering a new era, and the opportunity surface is much larger than most people realize.

We at @join_savant are hosting 2 iconic deep tech investors, @bznotes & @KanuGulati on where the biggest opportunities in Physical AI are emerging.

They’ll share what they’re seeing from the investor seat: where the biggest opportunities are, what makes a strong founding team, how founders should think about wedge, market timing, defensibility, and what kinds of Physical AI companies they’d be excited to fund.

Come with sharp questions. Link below.

[savant @savant_vc]

Join us on May 12th!

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

May 12th in SF, Where the Opportunity Sits in Physical AI by @join_savant

For our next Choose Good Quests session, we are hosting @bznotes ,managing partner at @redglassvc and @KanuGulati, partner at @khoslaventures
to share about opportunities in physical AI.

Physical AI is moving fast — but for founders, the map is still being drawn.

Bilal and Kanu have backed some of the most ambitious companies across AI, robotics and autonomy. They’ll share what they’re seeing from the investor seat: where the biggest opportunities are, what makes a strong founding team, how founders should think about wedge, market timing, defensibility, and what kinds of Physical AI companies they’d be excited to fund.

Come join us. Link in the thread 🧵

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

We hosted @RajatBhageria last night, founder of @ChefRobotics.

Chef is the only “cooking robot” company from the 2015–2019 era still thriving today, helping produce more than 100 million food servings — a real testament to the team’s tenacity, focus, and execution.

We covered Chef’s early journey, the major roadblocks, and where robotics is heading next.

Recording coming soon.

This was part of the Choose Good Quests series by @join_savant, where every two weeks we host exceptional founders and VCs pursuing or backing important, ambitious quests — and have them share the real stories behind the work.

Our next one is happening on May 12. Stay tuned.

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

looking for a creative director to lead "new media" for @join_savant - we are building a generational venture firm to fund "good quests" - founders solving civilization-defining problems at the earliest stage.

we’re living through the most important technological inflection point of our lifetimes. yet many of the best builders are building incremental bets, AI wrappers, or optimizing for early retirement.

we think silicon valley needs a new narrative.
One that rewards ambition, courage, and long-term thinking.

you will act as the core person to lead all things media - helping us shape the important narrative silicon valley needs today: choosing good quests

compensation will be in both cash & carry. part time.

[savant @savant_vc]

apply for 2026: https://t.co/MVa3zN7wKH

[Jeson Lee @thejesonlee]

SILICON VALLEY IS IN A CRISIS.

our best minds are being wasted on marginal AI wrappers & safe bets.

so we built an epic summit for the bold ones choosing good quests.

over 1,500 applied. we handpicked the top 250 to attend.

this is Choose Good Quests 2025 by @join_savant 🔥

[savant @savant_vc]

If you have the rare superpower to build, raise and hire - you have a moral imperative to choose a quest that is important for civilization, because if you don’t, no one else will.

[Benyam Ephrem @bephrem]

.@thejesonlee on doing your life’s work:

[savant @savant_vc]

RT @oscrhong: Great chatting with Lucas about wafer-scale 3D nano-fabrication, what comes after Dennard scaling, the foundry model, and mor…

[Nina J @ninajlu]

Had such an inspiring time at Good quests conference! Fuck b2b SaaS - let’s go build something real! #builders @thejesonlee @join_savant

[Ryota Sekine @RyoDogg]

Choose Good Quests by @join_savant was fire. Restarting my founder and angel investing quests, building and backing radical startups. Coming back to SF full-time in 2026.