Jim Fan
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NVIDIA's Jim Fan: VLA and remote operation dead, World Action Models rise
NVIDIA's Jim Fan declared the end of Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models and remote operation in robotics, advocating for World Action Models (WAM) as the new paradigm. Fan proposed that WAMs, inspired by Large Language…
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Sequoia Capital: AI is a computational revolution, agents to dominate 2026
Sequoia Capital hosted its fourth annual AI Ascent event in San Francisco, gathering over 150 AI founders and researchers. Key themes included AI as a fundamental computational revolution, with predictions that 2026 wil…
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LiteLLM compromised with credential-stealing malware; experts warn of agentic risks
A vulnerability has been discovered in the LiteLLM Python package, specifically in version 1.82.8. This compromised version contains malicious code designed to exfiltrate user credentials and replicate itself by sending…
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NVIDIA's Jim Fan touts robot learning via human data, not teleoperation
NVIDIA researcher Jim Fan highlighted EgoVerse, an ecosystem for robot learning derived from human egocentric data. This approach moves beyond traditional teleoperation, focusing on scaling robot learning through behavi…
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NVIDIA's Jim Fan: VLA, Teleoperation Obsolete by 2026 in Robotics
NVIDIA's Jim Fan predicts a major shift in robotics, declaring VLA architectures and teleoperation obsolete by 2026. He advocates for a new era driven by physics-simulating world action models and autonomous data collec…
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OpenAI adds top AI researchers to its team, focusing on unsupervised and reinforcement learning.
OpenAI has announced the addition of several prominent researchers to its team, including Ian Goodfellow, known for his work on Generative Adversarial Networks, and Alec Radford, creator of DCGAN. The new hires and summ…