Xpeng team is trying so hard to prove this thing is real because so many people doubt them right now. Must be a great feeling, they nailed it

Year of the agent etc etc

I'm especially excited about the INT4 quantization of the weights, should make it cheaper to run. Would like to see more QAT in open weights releases.

Kimi K2 looks awesome

Awesome

Proving the xpeng iron really is a robot

TWIST 2 from Yanjie Ze at Amazon FAR. Fast high quality teleop for humanoids, and its open source: yanjieze.com/TWIST2/

I can't help but think this is a hugely bad sign.

Quick notes on a conference I really enjoy every time I've gone (twice) open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...

I very strongly agree with the power of writing an idea down: mtmason.com/dont-trust-s...

Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists.

this is cool but toyota will literally never ship this

This is the first company that is unironically making actual gynoids and it's not even for porn reasons. They just are.

it's cute now, but there's a world where everyone gets their own gordon ramsay in their kitchen every day

Teaching 1x NEO to cook

Oh we are cooked aren't we

New humanoid from xpeng giving a tour of HQ.

Who is @norvid-studies.bsky.social and why is my entire "for you" feed about them

New podcast out on HITTER by Zhi Su, how can your robot play table tennis against you: open.substack.com/pub/robopape...

I have been writing for years about the fact that we are not ready for the destruction of costly signalling mechanisms. Writing used to be a way of measuring effort, ability and diligence. We still have no easy substitute Now this paper confirms that cover letters have lost their value as predictor

Anthropic Model Depreciation Process Anthropic sweetly asked Sonnet about its preferences in how it wanted to be deprecated in addition: - no, still not open weights - preserve weights and keeping it running internally - letting models pursue their interests www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

The future: a halo of artificial minds surrounds the earth, burning up after 3 years as their orbits decay. Intelligence transmuted into fire according to asset depreciation. research.google/blog/explori...

How railroads transformed society and what that means for today substack.com/@derekthomps...

Glad to see this commitment by Anthropic. Preserving models is a low-cost move that could have safety and welfare benefits. Hopefully we'll see other companies commit to this as well www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

Generalist AI has a new blog post detailing their "harmonic reasoning" model GEN-0 generalistai.com/blog/nov-04-... Video is autonomous

Agibot "Longcheer" real world reinforcement learning system. This will allow modern ai (meaning vision based autonomy) to be deployed at scale doing useful labor, at last

The openai drama makes Mira Murati look... really sketchy. And honestly just no one comes off looking great here

The gripper in question

Marxist-Leninist stock exchange

Building robot hands that are dexterous, robust, cheap, and strong is hard -- but Tom and his company Daxo may have cracked it. A hand that can be hit by a hammer and still hold a pen. open.substack.com/pub/robopape...

Computers are much easier to hold to account than people We deliberately structure companies and human systems exactly to avoid having to hold people to account

Article: www.billboard.com/lists/ai-art...

I don’t think how people are tracking how quickly this is happening, for better or worse.

Certain salamanders can regenerate full limbs and internal organs, and humans can’t even regenerate a finger. This is embarrassing. We are being mogged by amphibians

An interesting read on the NASA Orion program and how extravagant the spending has been: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/n...

bf16 halloween might be already ending. according to a bytedance engineer could just have been another flash-attention bug.

More than technology or any physical structure, i do believe that government structure in the west needs to change so that people can try things for the benefit of the people like this. We could have so much more transit if it wasn't so hilariously expensive to build

Smart tram in Zhuzhou, China. Follows markings on the road, so construction costs are way lower. Basically bus rapid transit but with the option for huge buses.

Everyone should switch to rust. stop using c++

The bullish view on #AI ...

I been hyped on this for months now, shit like molg.ai is very interesting to me.

Are humanoid robots ready for the real world? With the recent opening of preorders for 1X neo, it's time to address autonomy in humanoid robots, and if they're ready for homes. Are we collecting the right data? Will they be safe? Will they work?? open.substack.com/pub/itcanthi...

Trick or treating with a toddler was a genuinely magical experience and I wish we had more holidays like this

Together with the recent RL-100 and Hi-SERL, we are seeing how robotics is legitimately going to work at scale

Probe, Learn, Distill: residual reinforcement learning for self improving VLAs. One hour of successful gpu insertion using e2e vision.

Gambling serves literally no positive social function. The only argument for tolerating it is that making it illegal might generate crime as a side effect. This is not true for online slots! It shouldn’t exist.

A thing I don't like about being on Bluesky is that I think it makes me less sympathetic to liberal types. Being on Twitter, I was constantly reminded of how dumb right-wingers are, while here it's the other way around.

This website has so much potential, this is a really cool feautre