I’m making amazing progress on building a new foundation for robot intelligence. I've skipped through a few placeholder names for my frontier research lab, but it deserves a serious name now. Introducing Base Intelligence. If you’re following me today, you’re in at the ground level, and I greatly appreciate that. You might remember my last startup, Hyper, where we solved the indoor GPS problem, and rolled it out with IKEA as the future of their shopping experience. Before that, I pioneered AR navigation (now integrated in Google Maps) and built the largest open source project for Apple’s AR platforms. When it comes to successfully developing new technologies and leading a lab, the number 1 requirement is a clear technical vision. You can’t just follow the status quo, or incrementally improve on what already exists. I’ve been saying that we need a new architecture for intelligence for almost 4 years. And now with Base Intelligence, I’m going to follow my vision and make it happen.

Hacker House Lisbon lets goooo we’re going to build so many robots

just seen the news about Anthropic on linkedin! exciting they’ve launched Fable, i hope it goes well for them.

i’m the only person i know who arrives into a new country and first thing i do is go to a coffee shop with my computer at 9pm 👨‍💻

cheguei, amigos! 🇵🇹

i forgot everyone in apple keynotes have the personality of the hive in Pluribus

It’s obviously intentional that the Siri demos are uncut, including loading times. They want to rebuild trust!

i feel like they have a lot of updates to iOS, macOS etc but they had to squeeze it into a whistlestop tour so they could waste 30 minutes pandering to governments who aren’t even watching. why do developers care about this? #wwdc26

The Boring Bit™️ #wwdc26

June 2024: Apple's Marketing SVP cringes when Gruber says "Let me give you a slogan. Siri: this time, we mean it." Gianandrea (now "retired" to "spend more time with his family") follows up with "The first thing I said to the Siri team: failure is not an option". Everyone laughs. Maybe they'll ship it this year. Maybe.

FAO Claude Code team: this data is incorrect. Here are two screenshots, 18 days apart, and you can see data literally disappearing from the graph. On June 6th I used almost 1m credits within Claude Code, and yet it shows up as 0. Plz fix.

WWDC prediction: opening vid is about “goodbye Tim Cook” and leads into a brief opening speech from him. Probably with some cringe acting of him passing the reigns to Ternus.

Which AI is the best these days? I'm using A.L.I.C.E. but thinking of upgrading.

Saw this ad right after getting off the plane at Heathrow Airport. I recognised him instantly but it’s crazy to see the Stripe guy in an ad at an airport.

New model metrics are just an endless cycle of "our previous model scored 64% on this metric, and our competition was slightly more, but now ours is 74%!". I don't ever recall the metrics being in the 60s or lower, they're always in the 70s or 80s. It's like the Penrose Stairs illusion.

Who doesn't appreciate a great serif font? This is BBC Reith Serif, shown on BBC News international. Oddly enough, the UK version uses Reith Sans instead (not worth showing).

I've stopped using X on a daily basis. I've figured out how to do this but also stay up to date and "not miss anything". Here's the changes I've made. - Deleted X, TikTok and other apps from my phone. I prev had them on time limits but this is WEAK SAUCE. Deleted them. - Blocked X domain on my Mac using /etc/hosts (ask Claude to find out how), to stop me idly opening it out of habit - I use Typefully to draft or post without opening the feed - I still have X on my iPad, so I can sit down and intentionally use it. I've done this twice for 20 minutes each, and then I'm out. - I use the new Digg for a daily aggregated update on tech news. High quality without the pollution. I also read Daring Fireball and listen to podcasts, so I really don't miss anything. It's now been a week. I did this because the pollution is unhealthy. Scrolling X is like taking a cigarette break, and I was scrolling 20 a day. My mental headspace has lifted a lot. I feel less frustrated daily. I still reach for micro-distractions a LOT and will have to work on this aspect.

WeWork in Amsterdam ☀️