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August 26, 2026 - Lumafield Headquarters, San Francisco Haomiao Huang opened the panel with the Underpants Gnomes from South Park. Their business plan has three steps: collect underpants, question mark, profit. As a venture investor, he said, he hears the data version of that plan constantly. Step one, collect a lot
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August 18-19, 2026 - Fort Mason, San Francisco On Tuesday morning, Jason Ma of Dyna Robotics described a foundation model pre-trained on one million hours of human video - roughly 170 years of continuous waking experience. On Wednesday afternoon, Pete Florence of Generalist showed a model that learns a new
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July 16, 2026 - The Midway, San Francisco Deepak Pathak opened his keynote with archival footage: a robot arranging blocks to match an image, a teleoperation rig with a human puppeteering an arm behind a curtain. The block-stacking result dates to the 1960s. The teleoperation footage is from 1957. Colorize
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The 2026 Deep Tech Report Just Dropped - 461 Pages of Data on Where the Money, Talent, and Exits Are Going Download here: https://drumbeat.capital/ Drumbeat Capital just released the largest Deep Tech report in the world - 461 pages covering funding, talent, exits, robotics, AI, energy, and the transatlantic bridge
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A detailed recap from the Drumbeat Capital event at Deep Tech Week SF, with a focus on the Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing panel. Drumbeat Capital kicked off Deep Tech Week SF 2026 yesterday with a packed half-day event titled The Global State of Deep Tech. For those unfamiliar, Drumbeat
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Per BLS data from December 2025, there were 433,000 unfilled manufacturing job openings across the US. Deloitte and the National Association of Manufacturers project that number could reach 2.1 million by 2030, at a potential cost of $1 trillion that year alone. The skilled machinists who've
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From ImageNet to Marble — everything she's been building, saying, and arguing for Last issue we went deep on Yann LeCun and JEPA. This time we're covering the researcher the New York Times once dubbed the "Godmother of AI" — Fei-Fei Li. The connection isn&
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Everything he's been researching, saying, and building — and why it matters If you've been watching the AI space closely this past year, you know that while the rest of Silicon Valley races to build bigger language models, Yann LeCun — Turing Award winner, co-inventor of convolutional
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I invest in robotics companies. I talk to founders building humanoids, manipulation systems, and autonomous machines every week. Now I've been trying to build a few robots myself. I've been learning by ordering parts, assembling a robot arm from scratch, and training an AI policy to