Thomas Kuruvila

Physical AI for unmanned systems — air, ground, underwater.
Reproducing frontier robotics research on real platforms.
Building Stratofirma Autonomy Labs.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re ending our partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. Under our proposal, Cursor’s direct access to our models would end on November 12.

We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care about their experience in this transition and we’re ready to go above and beyond to support them.

https://t.co/OzuCTzUjfX

[Qwen @Alibaba_Qwen]

📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence.

🧭 Qwen-RobotNav — the gateway to mobility.
• Unifies 5 navigation tasks in one model: instruction following, point-goal, object-goal, target tracking, autonomous driving
• Controllable observation protocol
• Tool interface for agentic systems

🤖 Qwen-RobotManip — the foundation of interaction.
• Unified state-action space across heterogeneous robots
• Camera-frame delta poses for coherent cross-embodiment training
• Pretrained on a 38,100+ hour open-source corpus

🌍 Qwen-RobotWorld — infinite worlds for physical agents.
• Single world model, 20+ embodiments
• Natural-language action interface
• Predicts physically grounded futures across manipulation, driving, and navigation

Each model is independently useful, and could be composed as physical-world tools.Together, they form the low-level toolkit for general-purpose agentic systems that don't just see the world, but act in it.

📷 Blog:
https://t.co/ytLcbYET26
📖 Report：
Qwen-RobotNav: https://t.co/uPmSwDYGxg
Qwen-RobotManip: https://t.co/GeyIzJSpU8
Qwen-RobotWorld： https://t.co/SXPH1qzDFy

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

I’m Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix & 6 other companies.

This is my definition of success:

[Chris Albon @chrisalbon]

If you are interested in it, here why I think you should get into AI right now.

Disclaimer: If you are looking for some AI hype thread, go somewhere else.

[Keerthana Gopalakrishnan @keerthanpg]

A plastic fork is used for 5 minutes but stays on the planet for 5 million+ years if sent to landfill.

We deployed a large fleet of reinforcement learned robots in multiple Google buildings to sort trash and prevent exactly that.

Here’s what we learnt: https://t.co/pEtLKzQnt5

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Image of our democracy!No discussion of #Modani permitted in Parliament. When MPs of 18 parties try to march to ED office to register a complaint against Adani,2000 policemen in riot gear stop them.
But BJP says that @RahulGandhi must apologise for calling out State of Democracy!

[gaut @0xgaut]

Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race.

Fantastic to watch.

[Anmol Gulati @anmol01gulati]

1/4: When I first joined Brain, a senior colleague, who later became a great friend, shared a mental model about engineering/research that has stuck with me since. It breaks down engineers/researchers into three categories: creators, adders, and multipliers.

[Praveen Gopal Krishnan @peegeekay]

"Where do we watch Succession now?"

First the IPL and now HBO, it's clear that Disney is going to going to lose Hotstar subscribers in India.

This is intentional.

It's a story about activist investors, a new-old CEO, how Hotstar is essentially cable TV and a myth of bundling.

[Lerrel Pinto @LerrelPinto]

While we are going gaga over large models and big data, there is still incredible value left to extract in small models and data, especially in robotics.

All the skills shown below were each trained with <1 min of human data and <20 min of online RL

https://t.co/IFipGATBnf 🧵👇

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

One of life's great mysteries 🤣

[Congress @INCIndia]

"The BJP likes to twist my statement. I will never defame my country. The people of India felt disrespected when our PM went abroad and said that no work has been done in the country in the last 70 years of independence."

Full video here: https://t.co/HFhNNqvshE

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Both can be great. Chilling with good friends & the passionate pursuit of goals are both part of the human experience at its best.

[Salman Soz @SalmanSoz]

When the PM speak in Parliament today, he will do his best to attack @RahulGandhi's credibility. Reason is simple: RG landed some serious punches and that is why the Govt & RSS-BJP ecosytem are in a tizzy.

Here's an example of what RG was talking about. Adani & 6 airports...

[Rejimon Kuttappan @rejitweets]

പെറ്റത്തള്ള സഹിക്കൂലാ....

[Rejimon Kuttappan @rejitweets]

സോളാർ കേസ് CBI ഉമ്മൻ ചാണ്ടിയെ കുറ്റവിമുക്തനാക്കി.
ലാവലിൻ കേസ് CBI പിണറായിയെ ഇതുവരെ കുറ്റവിമുക്തനാക്കിയിട്ടില്ലാ.

[FOSS Hack 3.0 @FOSSHack]

We're excited to announce our next edition of FOSS Hack - 3.0!

More details here: https://t.co/kdU9wpQ3ID

[Thomas Kuruvila @the_operat0r]

Borrowing time against sleep. #Coffee

[Dr. Shama Mohamed @drshamamohd]

While granting bail to #SiddiquiKappan, HC says that there is no money trail in the money laundering case filed by ED. This is a slap on the face of the Modi govt, who abused ED to keep an innocent man in prison, simply out of vindictiveness!

[www.sidin.co @sidin]

Welcome to all cricket fans watching their first football match. Please don’t worry. This is the normal amount of grass on the pitch.