Jim Fan
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On X: NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.
- Jim Fan open-sources Flora, a robot video labeling engine
The models already label 200,000 hours of video a day and feed NVIDIA GR00T training.
- Jim Fan's lab open-sources ASPIRE after Astra swap
The benchmark jump came from a stronger backbone model, not from new robot code.
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- OM-1 unplugs an Ethernet cable, and the video is 1x speed
Reward AI's new foundation model drew praise from Chris Paxton for a task most robots fumble.
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