robotics

7 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2019 by Thomas Reardon · across every show →

Everything said about robotics, oldest first

Sep 17, 2019 positive
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Inbound robotics demand drove unexpected investments at CTRL-Labs
“We didn't start the company thinking about robotics at all, and those opportunities have all kind of inbound to us and actually led to some of our investments.”
Thomas Reardon Sep 17, 2019 ▶ 13:46 Fireside Chat: Thomas Reardon, Founder & CEO, CTRL-Labs (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 8, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Azhar: Companies ignoring AI and automation shed jobs, while adopters grow
“That the data seems to show is that companies who invest in robotics, automation, AI grow. But it's companies that don't that shed the job.”
Azeem Azhar Mar 8, 2022 ▶ 14:24 Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Sep 4, 2025 bullish
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Runway plans to announce work on AI applications for robotics
“There's applications in robotics that we're, like, now gonna, gonna spend a bit more time and announce Some work that we've been doing there.”
Cris Valenzuela Sep 4, 2025 ▶ 10:25 AI Video’s Wild Year – Runway CEO on What’s Next
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Łukasz Kaiser: Robotics limitations reveal gaps in multimodal AI reasoning
“Robotics is probably just an illustration that we are not doing that well in multimodal and that we're not doing that well in general reasoning yet.”
Łukasz Kaiser Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 1:03:10 What’s Next for AI? OpenAI’s Łukasz Kaiser (Transformer Co-Author)
Feb 12, 2026 neutral
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LeCroix: Mistral AI approaches video understanding via robotics research first
“For videos, it's a subject that we tackle through the lens of robotics first, and so we're doing our first explorations on that topic.”
Timothée LeCroix Feb 12, 2026 ▶ 50:25 Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
May 21, 2026 positive
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Dubois: RL becomes effective once base models possess strong world priors
“It seems that after crossing a certain scale of models that know basically everything about the world, and what we call, like, good priors about the world, It seems that reinforcement learning just started to work, and this is not only with LMS. Robotics seems…”
Yann Dubois May 21, 2026 ▶ 40:08 OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
Aug 27, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI-driven robotic expansion could drive 200x global GDP growth in 2030s
“We're imagining sort of the robot population or like, you know, quality adjusted population, basically like doubling or quadrupling every year, which, because that's almost all of the like sort of relevant, productive capacity of the economy itself means the e…”
Ryan Greenblatt Aug 27, 2026 ▶ 52:11 AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late?
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