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Brett Adcock

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2822 total appearances

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And, you know, so it's like, even like a 12-year-old can kind of do, like, most things in a house.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

You know what I mean?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

Like, they can jump up on countertops and all kinds of crazy stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

Humans would be tough.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

But, like, I think we can get, like, very soon, we'll get to, like, pretty close to most of what humans can.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

Yeah, they...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

They led my... So Sam and OpenAI led my Series B, co-led my Series B with Microsoft.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

That was a few years ago now.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

So we raised about a little under 700 million in our Series B, our second round of funding.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And they joined my board, and then we ended up spending basically a year with them working on... Well, maybe I'll give you the background.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

The goal was to try to advance AI models for humanoid robots together.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

you know, they have some great folks that have worked on like LLMs and chatbots and things.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And at the time we had like a, you know, we still do, but we had a full like AI team internally.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

So we were basically working weekly, daily on like, basically how do we advance state-of-the-art kind of like language models for robotics.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

And, you know, like, yeah, I ended up firing them.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

A year later in splitting ways.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

But listen, they're a great team.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

The senior leadership and everybody there, Sam included, were great to interact with.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#292 Brett Adcock - Shawn Ryan Meets a Humanoid Robot

The issue lied for us of there's nobody that's ever put advanced language models into these systems and made it.