Tony Zhang
@tonyzhang_
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Founder, Tera AI. Spatial reasoning for scalable autonomy. @Caltech PhD in Computation & Neural Systems.
San Francisco
Joined October 2009
RT @tszzl: pretraining is an elegant science, done by mathematicians who sit in cold rooms writing optimization theory on blackboards, engi….
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Sharing our first research paper today! Product announcements to come over the next few months. Join us.
We're excited to share our latest research, focusing on better understanding and navigating dynamic real-world environments for autonomous systems. We introduce STRIDE, a new spatio-temporal road image dataset, & TARDIS, a world model that leverages it.
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True founder-first fund.
Here’s to the founders. We see what you see. We just raised $900M - our largest fund yet - to back those who are brave and daring enough to imagine the radically new.
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Incredibly proud of our team.
Tera has been featured as a top 100 AI startup selected by CB Insights.
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RT @TechCrunch: Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots
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Robots are part of an exciting new frontier in tech, but here's the challenge: Robots rely on arrays of sensors, external signals like GPS and Wi-Fi, and
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RT @vivfaga: Robots won’t be truly helpful until they can navigate like humans. Tera AI is solving this with software-only spatial reasoni….
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RT @kazsatamai: Congrats to @tonyzhang_ on their $7.8M seed. Most robots struggle to navigate unfamiliar environments. Tera AI is changin….
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I’m beyond excited to finally share Tera AI ( with the world. As some of you know, I’ve been long obsessed with cognitive maps and world models – AI with general-purpose spatial reasoning like humans. We're hiring!.
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We can read a 2D map we’ve never seen and use it to navigate a maze-like 3D indoor space. We believe zero-shot navigation for robots is a problem that software-alone can solve.
Excited to announce our new funding round of $7.8M, led by some of the most active investors in robotic and AI, including Felicis and Inovia.
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RT @fchollet: I believe that if you understood intelligence, you could build it in software form on a $1M budget, including training. It wo….
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RT @mameister4: Now in eLife, including some new results from student author Zeyu Jing: @eLife.
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A neural circuit model reveals how biological brains may implement rapid learning and navigation in complex spaces.
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RT @Grant_Van_Horn: [1/6] New model for Merlin Sound ID! We’ve been hard at work this summer improving performance and adding 186 new speci….
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RT @Gautam_Reddy_N: Excited to share my latest theory work on rodent maze navigation and reinforcement learning: in….
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Problem-solving and reasoning involve mental exploration and navigation in sparse relational spaces. A physical analogue is spatial navigation in structured environments such as a network of burrows....
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RT @SandboxAQ: Building a stronger bridge between academia and industry through our Residency program! If you are a #PhD in #STEM with prof….
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RT @epsiloncorrect: 2021: we can’t reproduce big lab’s research because we don’t have a 1000 GPUs.2022: we can’t reproduce this research be….
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RT @jl_marino: Appearing in this month's issue of Neural Computation: Predictive Coding, Variational Autoencoders, and Biological Connectio….
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Will be in Ann Arbor this weekend for this!.
Check out the star-studded lineup for this year’s annual meeting of the @PavlovSociety hosted by President Natalie Tronson (@TronsonLab) in Ann Arbor, MI. Registration is open at
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RT @mameister4: 5/ The whole algorithm can be implemented with a biologically realistic neural circuit, using only local synaptic learning….
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RT @mameister4: New preprint on a theory for navigation in complex environments. With Tony Zhang @tonyzhang_, Matt Rosenberg @MH_Rosenberg,….
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An animal entering a new environment typically faces three challenges: explore the space for resources, memorize their locations, and navigate towards those targets as needed. Experimental work on...
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RT @liamjdrew: It’s absurd what neuroscientists call mazes. The T maze, the Y maze and the + maze; these aren’t mazes, they’re intersection….
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