Tech hiring is changing. Requirements per job post, since early 2025:
- Number of skills fell from ~29 to 22
- Years of experience rose from 4.6 to 4.85
Charts of the Week: a16z.news/p/chart-of-the…
>blogs about ray tracing for a CS project in 2012
>co-founds World Labs in 2024
>ships Atlas in 2026, a spatial intelligence model that turns a few photos into a whole 3D world
curiosity compounds
World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and a16z's Martin Casado on Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence:
LLMs are built on next token prediction. Video models are built on next frame prediction. Atlas is built on new view prediction, and it's
>be dr. fei-fei li
>born in beijing, raised in chengdu
>dad moves to new jersey, follow at age 16
>speak almost no english
>parents open a dry cleaner
>work the counter on weekends
>get into princeton on a full scholarship
>study physics, because why not
>caltech phd
>everyone in
World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and a16z's Martin Casado on Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence:
LLMs are built on next token prediction. Video models are built on next frame prediction. Atlas is built on new view prediction, and it's
World Labs co-founder Justin Johnson says Atlas can recreate the famous "Bullet Time" shot from The Matrix with iPhones:
"The way they did that shot is they had a ring of hundreds of cameras. [Neo] fell over in the studio, they had hundreds of cameras viewing that angle on a
World Labs co-founders Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Ben Mildenhall, and a16z's Martin Casado on Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence:
LLMs are built on next token prediction. Video models are built on next frame prediction. Atlas is built on new view prediction, and it's
