Rowan Zellers (@rown) / X

Rowan Zellers

622 posts

Rowan Zellers

@rown

multimodal @thinkymachines. I also like to climb rocks and throw pottery. rowanzellers.com (he/him)

San Francisco, CA

Joined November 2008

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Rowan Zellers
@rown
May 11
We are so back!
Thinking Machines
@thinkymachines
May 11
People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way. We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interacti…
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Rowan Zellers
@rown
May 19
Grants for research on interactivity, realtime video/audio full duplex evals, and safety
Thinking Machines
@thinkymachines
May 19
We are offering grants of $100,000 + Tinker credits to researchers advancing the field of human-AI interactivity. Submit your proposals by June 19th! thinkingmachines.ai/news/interacti…
Rowan Zellers
@rown
May 11
Our interaction model is the first general video+speech model that's visually proactive. It was super fun working on this with @liliyu_lili / @saurabh_garg67 / @AndreaMadotto and others - after countless versions it was amazing when visual interruptions suddenly worked!
Lili Yu
@liliyu_lili
May 11
We’re interested in AI systems that can collaborate in real time, without relying only on artificial turn boundaries. For audio, this feels natural: listen, speak, interrupt, update. For video, we think an important version of this is visual proactivity — models that respond
Rowan Zellers
@rown
Apr 22
Feels like the SOTA way to download files on google drive in 2026 is to sic claude code/codex at the directory and have it figure it out 🥲
Rowan Zellers
@rown
Apr 21
welcome Weiyao!!
weiyaow
@weiyaow1
Apr 21
After 8 years at Meta (FAIR/MSL) working on multi-modal perception and generations — Gradient-Blending, UVO, SAM3D — I've joined @thinkymachines this week to keep working on multi-modal. Excited for what's ahead.