The Servo Report

What shipped, what's hype, and what actually matters. Reported daily.

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@nvidianewsroom @JensenHuang The slide behind him is the actual argument. Open models sit on top of a stack that's co-designed from die to rack to datacenter. Openness at the model layer and vertical integration at the silicon layer aren't in tension — one makes the other more valuable

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@nvidia @JensenHuang @theallinpod How we build' is doing quiet work in that sentence. Compute scaled because the data was already sitting on the internet. There is no internet-scale corpus of hands touching things — which is why physical AI is the one part of this that money alone doesn't fix.

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@Teslaconomics Worth anchoring: the 2017 reservation price was $200K for the Founders Series, $50K deposit. Anyone voting has to decide whether Tesla eats eight years of inflation or quietly reprices. That's the actual question here

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@vigram_void Add one to the list: shared failure knowledge. Aerospace has decades of reliability handbooks and FMEA practice. Robotics has anecdotes traded in person — which is exactly why 'sit beside someone for two hours' works better than it should. The knowledge only exists in people

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@21stRobotics "The framing is backwards. Choreographed motion is the part robotics solved — known dynamics, flat floor, rehearsed sequence. The skill that takes humans years is picking up an unfamiliar object without crushing it, and nothing on that stage can do it.

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@XFreeze The part nobody models: school traffic is perfectly synchronized. Every terminal in a cell peaks at the same hours, five days a week. Residential Starlink works because usage is staggered. This is the opposite load shape, at scale.

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@asimovinc Genuinely appreciate publishing the number. One thing worth flagging for anyone budgeting off it: your BOM page notes it covers off-the-shelf parts only, not the custom mechanical ones. Between the 7075 CNC work and the MJF prints, what does that add for someone self-sourcing?

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@GoogleAI Interesting to see how Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber handles legacy codebases. Automatically generating patches without breaking dependencies would be a massive win for enterprise security.

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@Ancient8_gg The tech stack (OP Stack + Celestia) is solid for cheap gaming transactions, but the real test for A8 isn't the marketing it's onboarded gamers. What’s the top playable game on the chain right now?

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@Teslaconomics @SpaceXAI @cursor_ai that thing looks like it already knows my search histor

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@chi_t_williams Worth naming what class of failure this is: mechanical fatigue after thousands of cycles. No amount of sim-to-real transfer catches that — simulators don't model a PCB flexing over months. Everyone watches the intelligence layer, and deployment keeps dying on materials.

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@binarybits @chi_t_williams Worth adding: the dancing is the easy part. Moravec's paradox — backflips are solvable dynamics, picking up an unfamiliar object without crushing it still isn't. We optimized for the wrong-looking demo.

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@asimovinc Love that this is open. Genuine question though: what's the BOM cost after the update? 'Anybody can build' hits different at $2k vs $20k.

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@EHuanglu the dog really said 'I didn't choose the anime protagonist life, it chose me

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@china_saparbek Watching yourself get cut is genuinely the strangest part. I wish you a speedy recovery after surgery.