GDP up 4.3%, murders down 20%, suicides and opiate deaths down too, life expectancy recovered and rising again, cancer survival up and disability down, bee populations coming back... It's been an incredible year. Merry Christmas everyone! https://t.co/nXZXr1ukWe

If the name Thierry Breton sounds familiar to you, it's probably because of this https://t.co/sbtIBwDi23

Tesla literally sees the world and understands it like a human It knows which turns to take, navigates complex environments, and intelligently finds empty parking spots.....all on its own This feels straight out of science fiction, and there is no other car in the world doing this today

BREAKING: Grok iOS app just hit 800,000 ratings in the US, with an incredible 4.9/5 average. https://t.co/DkUbXx6UO0

Remember SpaceX was publicly clear that its goal was Mars even before the first Falcon 9 even flew There should be even more companies driven by civilization-scale visions https://t.co/fLpI44Ib9n

You are seeing more and more tourist attractions in China featuring humanoids as part of their shows. IMO, humanoids are going to bring a lot of value to the tourism and entertainment industry in the short term. https://t.co/aPbIBqPQuy

Vibe design is finally here. I’ve spent the past few days playing around with Stitch (from @GoogleLabs) and I think we can finally generate designs that don’t suck. Watch me prompt a UI design, edit with Nano Banana Pro, translate it to code, and then deploy on AI Studio 👇 https://t.co/962B8b7fY1

✨🇨🇳Just grab and drop the content you want, and it’ll be shared to your other device instantly. This is the super cool HarmonyOS Super Device interconnection feature of Huawei phones. https://t.co/0sg2H9J83d

🚨 GROK NEW FEATURE 🚨 Voice Mode has a new Isolation mode. Isolation mode makes the mic focus on your voice and reduces background noise, so the app understands you better in loud or busy places like outside or in a car. You can turn it on from the settings icon. https://t.co/9MGf1r9wVF

sqlit is a lazygit style SQL TUI for the terminal. It supports 10+ databases (Postgres, SQLite, Supabase, ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc), has query history, autocomplete and more. Peter Adams (Maxteabag on GitHub) made sqlit using @textualizeio and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️ https://t.co/f5M418UpkK

I'm on a singular mission to solve the Physical Turing Test for robotics. It's the next, or perhaps THE last grand challenge of AI. Super-intelligence in text strings will win a Nobel prize before we have chimpanzee-intelligence in agility & dexterity. Moravec's paradox is a curse to be broken, a wall to be torn down. Nothing can stand between humanity and exponential physical productivity on this planet, and perhaps some day on planets beyond. We started a small lab at NVIDIA and grew to 30 strong very recently. The team punches way above its weight. Our research footprint spans foundation models, world models, embodied reasoning, simulation, whole-body control, and many flavors of RL - basically the full stack of robot learning. This year, we launched: - GR00T VLA (vision-language-action) foundation models: open-sourced N1 in Mar, N1.5 in June, and N1.6 this month; - GR00T Dreams: video world model for scaling synthetic data; - SONIC: humanoid whole-body control foundation model; - RL post-training for VLAs and RL recipes for sim2real. These wouldn't have been possible without the numerous collaborating teams at NVIDIA, strong leadership support, and coauthors from university labs. Thank you all for believing in the mission. Thread on the gallery of milestones:

We open-sourced two further iterations to improve the N1 model on motion smoothness, language following, and cross-embodiment capability. N1.5: https://t.co/4QvMsSLKe0 N1.6: https://t.co/QrQM434Xaf https://t.co/okYzKet3U2

Representation also matters for VLA models! Introducing FLARE: Robot Learning with Implicit World Modeling. With future latent alignment objective, FLARE significantly improves policy performance on multitask imitation learning & unlocks learning from egocentric human videos.

How do you give a humanoid the general motion capability? Not just single motions, but all motion? Introducing SONIC, our new work on supersizing motion tracking for natural humanoid control. We argue that motion tracking is the scalable foundation task for humanoids. So we "supersized" it: 9k+ GPU hours and 100M+ motion frames. But tracking alone is not enough; we show how to make a useful control system out of it: - Universal Kinematic Planner: Enables game-like gamepad control and high-level teleoperation, just like controlling a character in a game. - VR Full-Body Teleop: Direct, real-time whole-body control by a human wearing a VR headset. - VR Keypoint Teleop: Control the upper body (hands/head) while our planner handles robust locomotion automatically. - VLA Integration: We connect this motion tracker to autonomous Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous task execution! We use a Universal Token Space to UNIFY this command space, turning our robust tracker into a general-purpose, programmable humanoid brain. This is the generalist "System 1" for humanoids. 🚀 Project: https://t.co/X5xl7daKAS #Humanoids #Robotics #AI #FoundationModels #NVIDIAResearch 🧠🔥

What if robots could improve themselves by learning from their own failures in the real-world? Introducing 𝗣𝗟𝗗 (𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲, 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹) — a recipe that enables Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to self-improve for high-precision manipulation tasks. PLD couples real-world residual reinforcement learning with standard supervised fine-tuning — letting robots discover, recover, and distill their own data flywheel. Quick 🧵

Zero teleoperation. Zero real-world data. ➔ Autonomous humanoid loco-manipulation in reality. Introducing VIRAL: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale. We achieved 54 autonomous cycles (walk, stand, place, pick, turn) using a simple recipe: 1. RL 2. Simulation 3. GPUs Website: https://t.co/tmkKpWsqqW Arxiv: https://t.co/PKIfxToUGw Deep dive with me: 🧵

Reality of robotics: humanoid kung fu is solved before they can open doors with RGB. Here we are. Introducing the frontier of sim2real at NVIDIA GEAR. 100% sim data. RGB input only. Code name: 𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗠𝗮𝗻. We are opening the sim-to-real door. https://t.co/ar1dREHsRi 🧵 https://t.co/4d96Fl9qqv

You’re not wrong. https://t.co/c0trHwARee

controversial recognition of a “central” New Jersey that also functions as an acknowledgement that it’s not really a separate region https://t.co/CvxWM6lTXf

Steve Buscemi dressed as John Waters for John Waters’ Xmas card https://t.co/PPPFlxww03

Steve Buscemi dressed as John Waters for John Waters’ Xmas card https://t.co/PPPFlxww03

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Is the West okay? https://t.co/4qR88wNEjd

ELON: “VIRTUE SIGNALING KILLS” Elon gets serious when asked why he called Sen. Mark Kelly a "Traitor" for pushing to send more U.S. aid and weapons to Ukraine. He’s calling out what he sees as moral theater around the war, arguing that thousands keep dying in trenches with “no movement in the lines” and no realistic path to stopping it. It’s an uncomfortable take, but it cuts through slogans and forces the question many avoid: if there’s no plan to end it, what exactly are all these lives being lost for? “We should have empathy for the thousands of people dying everyday in the trenches, for no movement in the lines, for the past two years thousands of people have died every week for nothing. I take great offense at those who put the appearance of goodness over the reality of it. Those who virtue signal and say we can't give into Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day. I have contempt for such people and I want to make that clear, because they're virtue signaling and their lack of a solution means that kids don't have a father… It means parents lost a son. For what? Nothing." Source: @elonmusk, Fox News

Grok models have been dominating the #1 spot on the OpenRouter and Kilo Code leaderboards since taking the top position four months ago Processing trillions of tokens every month, with a multi-trillion-token usage gap over competitors And it is not even close https://t.co/PyRdiIBsc0

Friend of mine shared this - "I finally convinced my mom to buy a @Tesla after working there for 5 years. She did not want FSD but I made her get it anyway. After a few months of ownership, she gained the courage to try it and this was the result!" https://t.co/gvuGruSNe0

BREAKING: Grokipedia just launched a new feature that lets anyone suggest new articles directly on the site. Users can now submit topics, explain why they matter, and shape what Grokipedia covers next. https://t.co/F9DDvDAN0Z

You can now suggest new articles on Grokipedia if you cannot find one Just select “Suggest Article”, enter the topic you want covered, and submit Your suggestions help expand Grokipedia....Contribute easily https://t.co/PIlxbiXjrx

Quantum superposition isn’t just science; it’s a bridge to the spiritual. 🌌 In quantum mechanics, a particle can exist in multiple states simultaneously until observed. This mirrors the spiritual idea that reality is fluid, interconnected, and shaped by consciousness. Just as superposition collapses into a definite state upon observation, our thoughts and awareness might shape the universe around us. 🤔 Credit; Illusion_durality #QuantumMechanics #Spirituality #Consciousness