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Building something new! Built self-driving cars at @cruise and @voyage . Board member at @skyways . @ycombinator alum. Angel investor in 60+ DeepTech startups.

Palo Alto, CA
Joined February 2008
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IT'S ALIVE! A team of us from Cruise, Wayve, and Waymo have been heads down training models and building an insane new product at the intersection of AI and computer graphics. We're still cooking, but DM me if you are a ML researcher or engineer and want to learn more.
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AI is changing everything, and it's not just ChatGPT or self-driving cars. You'd be surprised at just how broadly AI is being applied across tons of industries. I’ve now invested in 50 AI startups, and here are some recent investments using AI in fascinating applications 👇
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Here's @ylecun in 1993(!) demoing LeNet-1. This was the world's first convolutional neural network for handwriting recognition. Today—29 years later—this same approach powers the majority of computer vision. Such a historical moment, and breakthrough for machine learning.
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3 years ago, I started angel investing in machine learning and autonomous robot startups. I'm now 35 startups in, learning a lot, and having a blast. The future is going to be incredible. Here are just a few of the startups making it happen 👇
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I’m calling it: my 8 year old daughter will never need to learn to drive.
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We’ve all rightfully been taken by LLMs and how impressive the current state-of-the-art is. But, don’t sleep on computer vision. The progress is similarly insane.
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I find it so fascinating how fine the line is between the world being changed or not. Were it not for one person at @OpenAI waking up super paranoid that they absolutely had to build ChatGPT, it's likely we wouldn't be going through LLM mania today, and that hundreds of
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Our self-driving technology hit a big milestone recently. The speed at which computer vision, robotics, machine learning, sensors, and compute is advancing is mind-blowing. The result? Ride after ride after ride looking like this one 😍
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❤️ The new  Watch irregular heart rhythm detector saves a life, less than 24 hours after launching.
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OK that was nuts. I was just driven by a fully driverless @Cruise car through crazy downtown SF in daytime. I’ve taken hundreds of rides but my mind is still blown. I can summon this thing 24/7 all across the city now.
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I started working on self-driving cars 6 looong years ago. It's a dream come true to now wake up to videos like this every day. Today thousands of people have experienced @Cruise fully driverless rides. Pumped to make that millions.
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Today I got fully vaccinated and became an American citizen. I moved to the US (from the UK) in 2011 for @ycombinator and have felt fortunate to be here ever since. I owe a lot to this country.
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This was classic Steve Jobs. On the back of Michael Dell's infamous “shut Apple down and give the money back to the shareholders” comment, he annihilated Dell laptops with the new iBook. "It's got some nice fans on the back" Better products always win over talk.
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I feel like I’m living in the year 3000 when I ride around San Francisco like this.
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This is what a @Cruise fully driverless car—powered by state-of-the-art machine learning—is capable of. No human behind the wheel at all.
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Super impressed by the latest @Tesla FSD. It drives eerily natural, and handled very weird scenarios with no hesitation. I've ridden for hundreds of hours in driverless cars, and although it's not perfect and I'm a tiny sample, this is exciting! And no, not an April Fools.
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✨ Big news: @Cruise is now serving members of the public with fully driverless cars in San Francisco. Many thought this would take decades, but it's happening! We're now scaling & you can be one of the first to try a safer, smoother ride-hail service. Read on to learn how 👇
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Watch the most advanced robot in the world driving—without hesitation or confusion—through a bunch of anxiety-inducing scenarios. @Cruise ’s technology is rapidly rocketing beyond human driving capability. So exciting.
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It is becoming increasingly likely that we end this decade with both AGI and viable nuclear fusion.
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Software ate the world, and now artificial intelligence is eating software.
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🚀 The amazing @voyage team (close to 50 now!) has spent two years developing our self-driving technology. In short: it's super impressive, and we're able to handle the complexity and edge-cases of our first market: retirement communities. See for yourself.
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I recently left @Cruise after 2 amazing years. In that time, we launched & scaled cars with no driver to tens of thousands of happy customers. I'm super proud to have worked at such a special place. What's next after 7 years in self-driving cars & AI, and what did I learn? 👇
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🚘 Buckle in: it’s time to talk about @Tesla FSD! In this thread, I’ll share what I find most impressive and the challenges that remain before the “F” in “FSD” is true. Let’s go!
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What an amazing time we live in.
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Speaking of AI breakthroughs, this is what scaling fully driverless cars—all powered by crazy cool ML—looks like. We now regularly deploy 100+ fully driverless @Cruise cars (no driver, just passengers) concurrently on the streets of San Francisco, scaling faster every day.
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🏠 Big news from @voyage : Our first self-driving taxi service is live in a truly remarkable community. 4,000 residents can summon a self-driving car and travel door-to-door on 15 miles of chaotic road.
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Machines are getting eerily good. The confident driving shown here by the @Cruise AV is, take it from me, remarkable. The future—enabled by advanced computer vision and machine learning systems—is going to be wild.
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@OpenAI This represents why @OpenAI shipped and @Google didn't. How many leaders at @Google wake up paranoid enough to put their careers on the line to force something unpopular to launch?
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☄️ @ForgeAstro is building robots to autonomously mine asteroids, returning precious materials to Earth. Why? One asteroid can contain up to $10,000 quadrillion(!) of rare material. This is enabled by computer vision, affordable rocket rides, and small sat maturation.
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💥 Big news: @voyage is being acquired by @cruise ! We’ve spent the last 4 years building a self-driving service that restores mobility to those who need it most. Now at @cruise , we will continue to do that, but on an insane, global scale. I’m excited!
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Steve Jobs’ response to “Are people willing to tell you you’re wrong?”
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Want to know how far along a robotaxi really is? Challenge it with unprotected turns, and watch as perception, prediction, and planning are insanely stress-tested. We've now been working on this problem for three and a half years, and the result feels magical.
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Which robotics startup are you most excited about and why?
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☀️ Big news from @voyage ! We’re now rolling out a self-driving taxi service to over 125,000 amazing residents on 750 (!) miles of Florida road. This is a (private) city like no other.
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🎭 @WOMBO makes creating images with AI easy, fun, and useful. With 130+ million downloads on iOS and Android and 2 billion images created, they are likely the largest consumer AI startup around. My 8-year-old uses @WOMBO like I did Photoshop way back when. So fun.
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I still haven't fully processed that software is capable of driving a car entirely by itself in downtown San Francisco. Insane.
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Cars are beginning to drive themselves! Slowly but surely, this technology will become ubiquitous. Curious how it works? Here’s 30+ minutes of raw footage of @voyage ’s self-driving A.I. in action. Watch exactly how our A.I. sees the world and makes driving decisions. Part 1️⃣
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It’s 2023, and I can now summon—day or night—a fully driverless @Cruise car from my pocket supercomputer. The future is weird and wonderful.
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NBD. Just a fully driverless and fully awesome @Cruise car on the streets of San Francisco. Spent two hours yesterday riding with no one else inside 👻
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🎨 What if video editing was reinvented with AI? Enter @runwayml , which enables complex videos to be created with AI in minutes vs. days. Not only does @runwayml speed up creation, they also enable wild ideas that exist only in your mind to come to life.
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Prompt: Home Alone. But as the opening credits of White Lotus season two. #MadeWithRunway
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It’d be great if this same energy was channeled into something productive, like reducing the 40,000+ Americans killed by human-driven cars each year.
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A group of San Franciscans realized that they can disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by placing a traffic cone on the vehicle's hood. They're now encouraging others to do it: "Hell no, we do not consent to this."
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A car that can drive itself. Built by 60 people. I know the hype in AV has quietened down—perhaps for good reason—but don’t sleep on the autonomy revolution. It’s just beginning!
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🤯 A critical moment recently passed by with barely a mention. Right now –this very moment – there are cars on US roads driving members of the public without a human at the wheel. This is an insane step forward. Learn more about what happens next. 👉
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🎥 @twelve_labs has developed the world’s best video search, powered by state-of-the-art AI. Imagine being able to search millions of videos with complex questions, with AI pin-pointing non-obvious but relevant scenes. Basically, useful video search is finally here.
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✌️ Two years ago, we started a self-driving car startup. We were a little insane! But it's paid off. The @voyage team has made ridiculous progress on our path to driverless. I wanted to share that progress and our plans. 2020 is going to be wild. 📰
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The @coinbase IPO represents why I moved to Silicon Valley 11 years ago. A handful of people ( @garrytan , @rsg , @alexisohanian , @ycombinator ) placed a bet on a tiny and divisive startup. Countless other divisive startups will now benefit, and the Silicon Valley magic continues.
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A fully driverless @Cruise car joins the fun at a roller-party! I've been in self-driving for 6 years, and this is easily one of the most impressive clips I've ever seen. Even better, check out how excited the crowd is that a car with no one in it showed up. Such genuine joy ❤️
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I think it makes perfect sense for @Tesla to prioritize a purpose-built robotaxi over yet another human-driven car. The opportunity is way bigger, the competition has thinned, it accelerates their humanoid, and they seem to have something special on their hands with FSD v12.
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Fully driverless cars are here ✨
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⚡️ Big news in @voyage land: we raised a $31m Series B! What’s next? 🚪 Deliver door-to-door autonomous ride-hail services to communities that need it most 📈 Grow our team of experts 🤫 Expand the G2 fleet & introduce a very special G3 self-driving car
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Hearing lots of “you need OpenAI-scale $$$ and resourcing to make a dent in AI” sentiment recently. This is dangerous. Remember that the original Stable Diffusion was created by just 5 engineers! Amazing individuals and small teams can and will change everything in AI.
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🧠 Introducing @voyage Commander, a technology 4 years in the making. Commander is our self-driving A.I.—powering a door-to-door robotaxi service—and for the first time we are sharing an inside look with lots of detail and videos. Learn more here! 👉
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These magical machines are now moving everyday San Franciscans around their city. No Safety Driver or monitoring required. It will never cease to amaze me how far machine learning has come to enable this. Join the party by getting on the @Cruise waitlist.
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This simple email thread went on to create trillions of dollars of value.
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Bertrand Serlet to Steve Jobs: "Fine, let's enable Cocoa Touch apps" October 2, 2007
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📺 New video! Watch our self-driving system handle lots of complex agent interactions. The @voyage team is making miracles happen. Our tech metrics are growing like crazy MoM thanks to them. All clips were recorded in the last 10 days and are handled fully autonomously.
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🔋 automates the disassembly of EV batteries with AI. We cannot rely on mining lithium to fuel EV expansion, and human disassembly of EV batteries is dangerous and slow. The solution: autonomous robots disassembling batteries, powered by machine vision!
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🙌 It's happening...
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🧠 To efficiently scale AI, Geoffrey Hinton believes we need an entirely new computer—likely neuromorphic. @Rain__AI is working on precisely that, pioneering a neuromorphic processing unit (NPU) that's 10,000x more efficient, delivering what comes after the GPU & deep learning.
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This week, @Cruise launched fully driverless cars on the streets of San Francisco. Yesterday at an event called Under the Hood, we shared just how we did it. Here are just a few of my favorite details 🧵
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👀 Instead of sharing just perfect clips of self-driving cars, how about we also share the imperfect? I'll start. Here our car yielded to bicyclists (who are behind a stop-line). We predicted that there was a chance they'd blow through it. That was a little too conservative.
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👁 Computer vision is not without hype, but when you zoom out and view progress in the field for the last year, it's hard not to get ridiculously excited about the problems it's solving.
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The @Tesla Cybertruck 😶
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@BiofireUSA protects kids from guns using AI. @BiofireUSA is building a handgun that only fires for the authenticated owner, ensuring that kids don’t stumble upon a gun and tragically lose their life. Imagine incredibly low-latency and accurate FaceID-like auth for guns.
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📺 I attended my first @khoslaventures summit this year, and the quality of the speakers blew me away. TIL that many talks (from this year and past years) are published online! These videos are an amazing resource for every founder out there. Here's a few to get you started...
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There’s something very special happening at @Cruise right now. Can’t wait to soon share more of what I’ve been able to see internally 🤩 If you’re on the fence about jumping into the AV industry, reply or DM and I’ll try to answer any question (about @Cruise or otherwise). AMA!
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While growing @voyage , I've read this blog post from @zebulgar and @rabois 20 times easily: The associated deck is worth reviewing too:
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Self-driving is now scaling. We said at @Cruise we’d launch 2 new markets in 90 days. It happened, with fully driverless now live in Austin and Phoenix, in addition to San Francisco. It’s taken years and years to get here, but it’s been worth the wait.
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Machines can now see, talk, read, write, and even drive.
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💪 What developing a self-driving car really looks like.
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🏠 We've nailed (fully autonomous) gate interactions! I never imagined we'd be working on such a feature, but here we are.
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I just witnessed the most incredible live and unscripted self-driving trip at @Cruise ’s All-Hands. The car autonomously navigated complex construction zones, scooters, jaywalkers, and many double-parked vehicles without skipping a beat. Blown away would be an understatement.
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We're expanding in a big way! Within 90 days, @Cruise is going to be live in both Phoenix and Austin—in addition to San Francisco—with our awesome fully driverless service. I can't wait to serve our new riders. Going forward, AVs are going to be scaling rapidly 🚀
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Family++ ❤️ Days like this are the very, very best, all made possible by my superhero wife.
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📸 @opalcamera has built a beautiful webcam augmented with AI, producing DSLR-like image quality for only $300. They tightly integrated a 4K mirrorless lens, beamforming mics, and computer vision to deliver the best webcam out there.
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⛏️ transforms existing earth-moving machines into fully autonomous machines with AI. How much more could we build on our planet if we had a low-cost, around-the-clock workforce of robot earth-moving machines? A lot!
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🩻 We know AI can dramatically improve detecting health issues in medical imaging, and @md_ai_ is where that AI is being built. With @md_ai_ , you can create or browse the best medical datasets in the world, and then train and deploy state-of-the-art medical ML models.
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☁️ @StrongCompute is speeding up training ML models by 10x-1,000x. The amount of unproductive time in ML today is staggering, which is why @StrongCompute is growing so fast. One customer: “Strong Compute took our core algorithm training from 30 hours to 5 minutes.”
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Fully driverless cars—meaning no human necessary—are now on the streets of San Francisco. They said it couldn’t be done, or that it might take 10+ years, but @Cruise has brought it to life. This is huge. Enjoy @kvogt ’s first fully driverless ride!
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2019 was a game-changing year for self-driving cars. Many thought we were decades away from fully driverless cars, but they are here, now ✌️ Follow along as I recap just a sample of the amazing work accomplished within the industry in 2019.
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😍 Mesmerized by @Waymo 's visualization. HT to @alexismadrigal .
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It still blows my mind that you can go on a website, pay nothing, and learn how to make a car drive itself. This new @udacity course (featuring @baidu ) is particularly good for beginners.
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🎓 12 of our 20-person @voyage team is @udacity educated. Lifelong education is the best.
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🚨 New video! At @voyage , we are building driverless cars for those who need it most. Watch this video to see our progress. Our team has put enormous energy into delivering on that promise with state-of-the-art technology. I get teary eyed watching this one. They are the best.
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From founding @Twitch , to being acquired by @GM for $1B, to raising $10B in outside capital, to solving driverless in San Francisco, to building a custom EV with no steering wheel—this is the epic story of @Cruise and @kvogt ! Must watch:
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👩‍💻 @argoai 's release of Argoverse is game-changing for self-driving car research. 🗺 290km of mapped roadway 👀 11,319 tracked objects with raw sensor data 🧠 327,790 sequences of interesting scenarios 🔌 A thoughtful API to interact with the data Let's explore...
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🤖 AlphaGo becomes AlphaZero, a generic RL algorithm that has mastered chess (and Go). "AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and defeated a world-champion program in each case."
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The metaverse is cool, but let's also build products that improve the universe, IMO. Few better ways to do that than making our world safer and greener. The technology to do this is here—check out 105 minutes of a @Cruise AV navigating San Francisco entirely by itself.
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Watch as we disable our primary perception systems and stress-test @voyage Shield, our collision mitigation system. Shield is a supercharged automatic emergency braking system, powered by super high-res sensors, powerful compute, and SOTA computer vision. Enjoy 🙏
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📈 Record day at @voyage ! 65 passengers moved in autonomous vehicles today.
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This latest @ycombinator batch is really good. Hundreds of founders all applying ML in super interesting ways to solve legit problems in any industry you can imagine. The strongest batch I’ve seen in a long time.
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🚧 Big news: We've open-sourced how we safely test our 2-ton @voyage autonomous vehicles. We call it the Open Autonomous Safety (OAS) initiative, and we want to create a standard for the industry. Adopt it at your AV startup!
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Startups take a chunk out of you, mentally and physically. A bit over a year ago, I randomly woke up at 3AM struggling to breathe. I’d never experienced anything like it.
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I don’t know about you, but any autonomous driving product that makes moving from A to B more stressful than just driving yourself is not a very good product.
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🧠 @Waymo published a paper on a model called ChauffeurNet, which attempts to drive a car using imitation learning. ChauffeurNet aspires to more human-like driving, in contrast to traditional robotics approaches which drive like...well...a robot.
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😍 Nailing some tricky close-quarter maneuvers.
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🎉 Huge congrats to Team @Waymo on the historic milestone of deploying totally driverless cars on public roads.
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The face of someone who just had their mind blown by their first @Cruise ride. 10/10, would ride again ✅ Honestly, if you were blindfolded, I don’t think you’d be able to tell if a human or machine was driving. So good.
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I’m building something new! ✨ Last year, I founded my next thing with @jeffrey_hawke & an incredible team. Progress has been crazy. Can’t wait to share more. Until then we’re growing our team. If you’re fascinated by the intersection of AI & computer graphics, please DM me!
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Spotted 👀 This will become a very common sight in San Francisco over the next few months.
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