I was flipping through old photos, and I wanted to tell a story about a chair.🪑 It was at a tea house up on the mountain. The mountain was high. We had climbed for a long time and were worn out, until we finally found a tea house comfortable enough to sit and rest. The seat had been carefully chosen. The one I sat in had a clear view; I could see everything down the mountain. There was almost no one in the shop, only the owner, a cat, and a dog. The tea was warm. The wind was mild. In the moment I was drinking, the person across from me recorded it for me. She held up her phone and told me to look up. I lifted a hand a little, and didn’t smile. She pressed the shutter, glanced at the screen, and said this one was good, keep it. Everything felt easy then, so the photo has stayed on my phone. Any old picture can take you back to the air of that moment. That afternoon’s black tea, the breeze, and the seat I had chosen so carefully were all perfect. Looking at the photo now, what comes to mind first is not the tea, and not the place, but the chair, that seat. People leave. Tea grows cold. The chair is still in the picture, like the last place she found for me. Let’s tell a story about a chair together @themutualfun

Demo is not deployment. From Lab to Deployment, the full RoboCon panel with @sharonal_lee of @moonlake, @vivekgr92 of @agilityrobotics, and @castorhat, is now live. Sim vs. real, models that fit on the robot, and what "good" means to a customer.

Over the past year, we’ve worked on Echo and Logits to make AI post-training more efficient and accessible. Gradient Data now extends that work with verifiable environments, real-world trajectories and evaluation systems for more capable and reliable agents. gradientdata.ai

Physical Intelligence made fine-tuning a frontier robot model an API call. The loop they describe: collect demonstrations, train, test on the robot, collect again. The compute is handled. The demonstrations are still the input. We've been building for this loop. More soon.

Do you believe in forever? enterforever.com

Today, we're releasing the first look of the Cabal app, the Hushpuppies NFT collection, and the $CABAL token. Cabal is the private social trading app on Robinhood Chain. Read the thread🧵👇

RoboCon Physical AI Salon, San Francisco. A full house for From Lab to Deployment with @sharonal_lee of @moonlake, @vivekgr92 of @agilityrobotics, and @castorhat. Then robots, teleop demos, and networking until close. Thank you to everyone who came out. @Techweek_ #SFTechWeek