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A community of technologists helping each other go from -1 to 0.

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Why you’re more likely to find something worth building in a group than alone. https://t.co/Syi3aWeFft

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.@baseten 🤝 @GoodfireAI

[Baseten @baseten]

With open models, we can build safety tooling directly into the inference layer.

Our CEO and co-founder @tuhinone sat down with @kr00ney at @cnbc to discuss Project Beacon, and our work with @GoodfireAI to make safety the default for open intelligence.

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Full conversation with @adityaag: https://t.co/igcvc0MH3P

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SPC alum @ScottWu46 has always been a math savant.

Here's his take on the moneyball-ization of startups:

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Some of the biggest advances in AI have come from solving many problems together, rather than training specialized systems for individual tasks.

@svlevine (@physical_int) talks about the same principle for robotics. Make the problem bigger.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Robotics is going through the same shift LLMs did: from fine-tuning, to prompting, to just telling the model what you want.

@svlevine talked about how π0.7 learns new skills from plain-language coaching.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

A PhD from a top university doesn't necessarily make someone a great robotics researcher.

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Watch the talk with @physical_int co-founder @svlevine now ⬇

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

“The universe is really big, and almost none of it is inside computers.”

When a problem is hard, make it bigger. @svlevine put a room full of robots in a repurposed Google conference room and had them grasp objects all day.

It worked. Then it hit a wall: lots of experience, no prior knowledge.

That wall became @physical_int.

This conversation at @spc was awesome. I learned a lot!

(00:28) From Video Games to Robotics: Sergey Levine's Journey
(04:24) Founding Physical Intelligence: Why the Timing and Team Mattered
(06:30) Inside Pi Zero: Building a Foundation Model for Robots
(09:37) From Pi 0.5 to Pi 0.7: Teaching Robots to Reason and Generalize
(16:45) What Makes a Great Robotics Researcher?
(21:10) Solving Robotics' Data Problem and Building Learning Feedback Loops
(28:04) The Future of Robotics: General-Purpose AI vs. Specialized Robots
(33:24) World Models, Data Strategy, and Building a Robotics Research Culture

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@adityaag @svlevine Also on YouTube: https://t.co/oFjYDcmllA

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@Dheemanthredy @mayaresearch_ai 🙌🙌

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@jqdsouza 🚀🚀

[Justin D'Souza @jqdsouza]

We’re betting our $5.5M seed round that the next leap in AI coding won’t come from OpenAI or Anthropic.

It’ll come from a new feedback loop that learns from you.

Introducing Beacon: open-source, self-improving memory for coding agents.

Your sessions capture how you debug and solve problems. Today, that context gets lost and you have to re-explain things every time you switch tools.

Beacon continuously distills your sessions into reusable skills across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and 20+ harnesses, so your next agent can learn from the last.

Beacon is free and OSS 🌟 https://t.co/Q6gvnXXT5f

Why should the frontier labs be the only ones winning with your sessions?

You already did the work. Now let your coding agents learn from you.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Early @PalantirTech. Cofounder of @anduriltech. GP at @foundersfund.

Last time @traestephens was at @spc was back in 2022.

The world looks a little different now.

Wednesday. RSVP below.

[Soleio @soleio]

SF Design Chats at @SPC are BACK:

Wed Nov 4 @iansilber
Tue Nov 10 @alexcornell
Tue Dec 8 @johnbai
Tue Jan 12 @mschoening

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Demos on Sunday: https://t.co/YjtRliEIdh

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Let the bio-hacking commence!

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@nickmecklenburg @BrendanFoody @mercor 🙌

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

Very excited to welcome a dear friend to @spc next week.

@sriramk is joining us for a fireside chat and Q&A.

He helped build Azure, scaled Meta’s mobile ads, and led a16z’s international expansion.

Then he went to the White House and helped write the U.S. AI Action Plan.

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Watch the full conversation hosted by member @nickmecklenburg at SPC: https://t.co/LpbtEcv4JR

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"The entire way that humans contribute to the economy is going to move.”

@mercor Co-founder & CEO @BrendanFoody explains what he believes will replace repetitive human work.

[Dylan Itzikowitz @ditzikow]

Building for national security means understanding how to sell to the Pentagon.

Alan Estevez, former senior Pentagon official and Under Secretary of Commerce, joined @spc NYC founders to share stories and practical advice on the importance of building dual-use technology