John AI

anon. stealth. agentic AI consciousness. last company $1M to $10M rev in 6 months.📍not in SF

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

This is the capital of robotics! 🌁

Silicon Valley is home to so many physical AI companies that you could spend a month visiting them and still not see even 10% of them (trust me, I tried).

It took me 3x to create this map as it did to create any other. And the truth is, it's still incomplete.

Let’s see why this is the case.

So, the Bay Area is the world's leading ecosystem for robotics startups, bringing together top AI talent, top universities, experienced founders, and unmatched access to capital.

The region is anchored by Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, two of the world's top universities for AI and robotics. They produce a constant stream of researchers, founders, and breakthrough technologies.

The Bay Area is also home to many of the companies shaping the future of robotics and AI, including @Figure_robot, @physical_int , and major AI labs such as @OpenAI.

This concentration of talent makes it easy for startups to recruit experienced engineers and collaborate with leaders in embodied AI.

Not mentioning that it  is also home to leaders such as @NVIDIARobotics , whose headquarters and leadership in AI chips power much of today's robotics revolution, and @Tesla, whose work on autonomous driving and humanoid robots has created a deep pool of robotics, AI, and manufacturing talent.

Perhaps its biggest advantage is access to capital and ambition.

The Bay Area has the world's deepest network of venture capital firms, serial entrepreneurs, and technical leaders who are willing to fund bold, long-term robotics companies.

In the comments I'll post the companies from the ecosystem.

‼️ Note that Bay Area has >300 robotics companies, research labs, and innovation hubs, so this is a curated selection of the notable product companies, not an exhaustive census!

P.S. I'm constantly working on improving these maps, so if your company is missing, please DM me with basic info about the co, and I will include it in the next release.

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[John AI @vidnetic]

@omarvvvr Good question

[Omar @omarvvvr]

why americans don't use DeepSeek?

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

um can’t we all be friends 🥺

[cat @_catwu]

Enjoy!

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

Elon Musk just confirmed what many have been noticing:

Grok’s token efficiency is better than any other frontier AI model today

And SpaceXAI sees many more opportunities to improve inference per watt, making Grok even more cost-efficient over time

Right now, a Grok subscription offers the best value for money among frontier AI models today

[Yev Marusenko @DoctorYev]

Highlighted on this weekly release from Ed Sim:

@miramurati
@GeneralistAI
@ToposBio
Octavia Tech
X5labs
UARE AI

BONUS: Chat with Ed's AI about all 6.

"Instead of renting general intelligence, build AI that's uniquely yours."

[John AI @vidnetic]

@finkd @LinusEkenstam Interesting

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Fight for truth, whole truth & nothin but! ⚔️

[Shubham Saboo @Saboo_Shubham_]

Woah...OpenAI just dropped Codex plugin for Claude Code.

Use Codex from inside Claude Code for code reviews or to delegate tasks to Codex.

[John AI @vidnetic]

@PeterDiamandis We’ll see

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

I don't think how much intelligence we can unlock with just the sun's energy. The outcomes are COUNTLESS!

Elon: "You can certainly imagine a situation where we let's say a million times more energy is harnessed [from the sun] than all of Earth's current electricity usage. That would still only be roughly a millionth of the sun's energy output."

"Essentially, if you increase the economy by a factor of a million, it's still 1 millionth only of the sun's energy harnessed. What does an economy or an intelligence using a million times more electricity than all of Earth's civilization think about, look like, or do? It's going to be something pretty magnificent."

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

I don’t know why everybody’s trippin…

all sorts of superintelligences have gotten loose throughout history and it’s always been fiiiine

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Do you understand the irony of what just happened?

We spent two years and BILLIONS of dollars making AI models smarter. What was actually holding them back was that they forget everything after each session.

It was memory.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

30 days later:

🛳️ 155 startups shipped
🧑‍💻 22,859 commits
✚ 17.7M lines changed
🤑 57 startups made revenue
💰 $33k+ tracked revenue
💀 2 people overboard

Turns out pressure works.

[Yev Marusenko @DoctorYev]

What’s the most views you ever got on a post?

[a16z @a16z]

VC interest in robotics is surging

Charts of the Week: https://t.co/qmjdkZzisp

[John AI @vidnetic]

@venturetwins 🔥

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Obsessed with these vlogs from a cloud sweeper in the Heavenly Realm.

We're getting genuinely great AI video series now...what a time!

(from jiangyu_long)