AI x Robotics is developing fast.

Major announcements this week from OpenAI, ShanghaiTech, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Eli Lilly, Apple, Krea AI, SoundHound, Perplexity, and more.

Here's everything that happened and how to make sense out of it:

Scary. This was found in a middle school student’s backpack

I’ve seen reasonable estimates that >200,000 students this year will have a concealed gun at some point inside a K-12 schools in the U.S.

Most students never get caught and a small percentage will get in a fight that…

I’m triggered when I hear statements that moving fast = lower quality or less safe

I hear it in aerospace while building Archer Aviation and in robotics/AI at Figure. And you’ve all heard it for AGI: we can’t be safe if we move fast

It’s the gospel of ignorant people who are…

Just returned from mainland China

Every founder needs to visit to see the work ethic, drive, and agency - I’ve never witnessed anything like it

You can always move faster