We have the same experience using VLAs - the solution is not always more data! They don’t generalize. You change the scene slightly and they are useless
We’re going all in on World Models.
Today we’re launching the 1X World Model Lab.
The bet is simple:
You can’t fine-tune your way to AGI.
And you definitely can’t fine-tune your way to robots that can operate in the physical world.
General-purpose humanoids need models that understand space, motion, objects, causality, affordances, physics, and action before they ever see a specific task.
The frontier is not better VLA wrappers.
The frontier is embodied world models.
The 1X World Model Lab will focus on large-scale embodied world model pretraining: building the most generalizable foundation model for humanoid robots from the ground up.
The next frontier in AI requires scaling:
web-scale media + egocentric human videos + sim + dexterous remote operated robot data + on-policy NEO data → real-world deployment for robot data collection and RL → abundance of data → physical AI
The robot collects data.
The model gets better.
The robot gets better.
Repeat.
To lead this, we brought in one of the best for the mission: @_sam_sinha_ , as Head of World Models.
Sam was a founding research scientist at Luma AI and has been at the frontier of scaling multimodal generative video models his whole career.
If you’re the best in the world at large-scale pretraining, video models, robotics, RL, infra, or data — and you want your models to move atoms, not just pixels — join us.
Send background + evidence of exceptional ability to:
[email protected]
We’re building the model that makes autonomous labor real.
@AnthropicAI, love the new features but maybe fix the chats disappearing halfway through a conversation before dropping more cool stuff? #Claude#priorities
On December 8, the Perseverance rover safely trundled across the surface of Mars.
This was the first AI-planned drive on another planet. And it was planned by Claude.
JACK DORSEY'S NEW APP IS A PROTESTER'S SECRET WEAPON
Bitchat doesn’t need Wi-Fi, mobile data, or even a working government.
Messages bounce phone-to-phone using Bluetooth; no towers, no servers, no kill switch.
It’s ideal for places like Iran, where regimes love blackouts and protesters need a way to talk when the internet “suddenly disappears.”
No logins. No SIM cards. No surveillance.
Source: @CatiaKyen