Jim Fan

@DrJimFan

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.

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Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
May 8
I promise this will be the best 20 min you spend today! Robotics: Endgame, the sequel to my last year's Sequoia AI Ascent talk, "Physical Turing Test". I laid out the roadmap for solving Physical AGI as a simple parallel to the LLM success story. Be a good scientist, copy
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Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
Sep 4
Good old days at OpenAI in 2016: an agent stares at screen pixels, moves a mouse, and books a flight on United. We called it World of Bits, inside OpenAI Universe. 10 yrs later, Astra is reincarnated in the same universe. Even the naming is astronomically correct 😆 Universe was
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Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
Aug 21
The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That's exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnetic piece snapping into place, a paper cup peeling out of a stack, a USB
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Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
Aug 20
Seeing a hype wave around GEN-1.5, and rightfully so. Lots of respect to Pete & Andy for executing so well. The secret is in the naturally repetitive motions in human-collected data. There're 2 main sources for such repetitions: (1) Symmetric patterns. Sorting, tidying, and
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Jim Fan
@DrJimFan
Jul 24
Stay hungry, stay foolish. Absolute legend
Jensen Huang
@JensenHuang
Jul 24
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @nvidia signed on why open models matter. AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
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