Shephard @mechanismcap Not investment advice

Joined January 2013
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We’re excited to colead Dyna’s Series A with a $68M investment Dyna is one of the ONLY companies that have performant physical intelligence models that are ready to be deployed in the real world Physical AGI is coming! Make sure to follow @Lindon_Gao @JasonMa2020 @YorkYang5050
Excited to announce that we have raised $120M in our Series A to advance the frontier of general-purpose high-performance robots. 🤖 The new funding will accelerate progress towards our mission of bringing foundation-model powered robots to everyone, everywhere. Read more 👇
Generalized Autonomy is the end game for robotics but before we get there we will have a phase of remote immigration
Emerging trend in robotics right now is deploying robots teleoperated by cheap remote foreign labor So even with ICE mass deportations and a border wall, foreigners are going to be working more jobs than ever in America All subsidized by venture capital
Generally worked out well when the rulers signal a buy
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CZ has only ever disclosed owning BTC and BNB so this seems pretty significant
Full disclosure. I just bought some Aster today, using my own money, on @Binance. I am not a trader. I buy and hold.
Ok maybe this won’t be retarded
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$VIRTUAL is one of the few crypto projects that is doing legitimate things in the robotics sector They are coinvested with us on Robotics deals, building a large open source robot training data collection system and developing a commerce protocol for an autonomous machine economy
VIRTUAL chart is very reminiscent of SOL early days around $1 - $2. Think people are vastly underestimating the size of the agentic economy and don't realize how absurdly high this chart can go when crypto market conditions improve.
Robot models don't have the benefit of internet scale data that LLMs do Tesla, Google, Meta are all massively ramping up creation of proprietary robot training data Token incentives could potentially create the largest open source robot training data set Cool work by @virtuals_io
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Jensen’s keynote discussing NVIDIA + Figure
Any robotics investors that have thought a lot about this topic please DM me. We are hiring and will be the biggest investors in robotics by next year. Or happy to just riff
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When this starts happening at large scale it will have interesting effects globally. Cost of foreign labor will be even cheaper when they are remote vs physically imported Should result in deflation in US (especially given VC subsidization), potential economic tailwinds for countries where large Tele op centers emerge
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Emerging trend in robotics right now is deploying robots teleoperated by cheap remote foreign labor So even with ICE mass deportations and a border wall, foreigners are going to be working more jobs than ever in America All subsidized by venture capital
The inevitable perpification of global markets will undoubtedly lead to more volatility The liquidation cascades in crypto markets applied to global equities is going to be a sight to behold
The deeper the wick, the bigger the bounce
Replying to @Rewkang
Wick so deep that it will unliquidate Su Zhu
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The market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient
The Humanoid Robot is going to be the biggest product in history
Introducing Figure 03
Robotics strategy is a major long term priority for every major tech CEO in the world right now Imo maybe only Google will be able to pull off the robot foundation model component because they’ve spent a decade+ working on it with significant resources None have the DNA for commercializing complex hardware. The innovation and growth on this end will come from new companies like @Apptronik like you see in this video
New Gemini Robotics 1.5 models will enable robots to better reason, plan ahead, use digital tools like Search, and transfer learning from one kind of robot to another. Our next big step towards general-purpose robots that are truly helpful — you can see how the robot reasons as it sorts laundry in the video below.
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Figure 03 coming 10/9
But retard strength has its limits
ETH showing some retard strength
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Robot combat entertainment will be one of the first killer apps of humanoid robotics Children will grow up wanting to become robot operators/trainers/engineers similar to aspirations of NBA/F1/UFC
2 years ago when I invested in @Figure_robot I could not understand why I had access to what seemed to be a generational opportunity as an outsider After speaking to many tech VCs, it became apparent that most were either not comfortable/bullish with underwriting hardware deals or LPA didn’t allow them We saw this VC bias as an opportunity to pivot hard into robotics and have since deployed $220m+ into the space We are on track to deploy billions next year from pre seed to post IPO If you’re building something exciting in robotics, or are a talented investor (we are expanding), DM me
Literally all the VCs rn: "We must invest in robotics, we are very far behind in hardware and manufacturing!" Still all the same VCs: 99.99999999% investing in SaaS