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The Physical Intelligence Layer(pi.website)
6 points by lachyg 7mo ago|0 comments
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by lachyg 1y ago
Congratulations! This looks really great. What've you found to be the best hands / end effectors these days? When do you think we'll have good, reliable 5 finger hands that are ~reasonably priced?
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by lachyg 1y ago
(I work at Pi.) We open-sourced Pi0 (referenced in this post): https://github.com/Physical-Intelligence/openpi
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by lachyg 1y ago
Off the shelf robots -- we've got our models running on dozen+ different robot types (and have this specific generalization demo working on multiple platforms too.)
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π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization(pi.website)
177 points by lachyg 1y ago|44 comments
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Fast: Efficient Robot Action Tokenization(pi.website)
3 points by lachyg 2y ago|0 comments
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by lachyg 2y ago
I'll bite. I _worked_ at Stripe. Stripe has no authority in decision making here, the issuing bank decides (eg the customers bank) who wins and losses chargebacks. Stripe is a conduit of information, not a party to the decision.
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by lachyg 2y ago
(I work at π.) Happy to answer any questions on the model, hardware, etc
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Our First Generalist Policy(physicalintelligence.company)
308 points by lachyg 2y ago|241 comments
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by lachyg 3y ago
(i'm an investor in the company, and invested over 3 years ago.) this product has always been about AI—what they launched is almost exactly what they pitched me. their expectation of where the world going ended up being prescient.
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by lachyg 3y ago
(i'm an investor in the company.) this is probably the most privacy-forward hardware device on the market—you have to physically be making contact with the device for it to begin listening (at which point an LED is prominently visible)
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by lachyg 4y ago
I believe they're looking to imply here that they own their own charter, rather than renting someone else's, which is how almost all U.S. fintech companies operate (look in the website footer of, say, Unit and you'll see: &qu
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Facebook, Google Veteran Hugo Barra to Lead Covid Testing Startup(bloomberg.com)
2 points by lachyg 5y ago|0 comments
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by lachyg 5y ago
Stripe Reader may be a more accurate link: https://stripe.com/terminal/stripe-reader . This is Stripe announcing its own own hardware that developers can use to build their own point of sale payments experiences.
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Stripe Reader(stripe.com)
222 points by lachyg 5y ago|138 comments
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by lachyg 6y ago
Is there more that can be read on this somewhere? How it's taxed, what're the implications, how is it structured?
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by lachyg 6y ago
Is contributing to the fund a taxable contribution? I would assume so since it's a diversifying event.
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by lachyg 6y ago
There is a demo request form, but no information on whether it's generally available. Is it?
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by lachyg 8y ago
We play the role!
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by lachyg 8y ago
We do :-) But it's based on quite precise Visa / Mastercard rules.
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by lachyg 8y ago
(I work on Issuing.) Our product philosophy is making things as widely available as possible; we won’t be shy about letting the world know when we do.
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by lachyg 8y ago
(I work on Issuing.) Check out https://emburse.com/ -- they do this really well (and are a user!).
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by lachyg 8y ago
It depends on the type of card issued/use case, but prepaid cards issued through Stripe Issuing would still have that same challenge :-( We agree it's a pretty sub-optimal user experience. (That said, given many of these businesse
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by lachyg 8y ago
Great use case! If you fill in the form at https://stripe.com/issuing (or email me at lachy@stripe.com) we'll get back to you soon.
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by lachyg 8y ago
(I work on Issuing.) The technology we've built is agnostic to debit or credit -- it really depends on your use case. That said, force posts (or transactions cleared without an underlying authorization) can happen on any card type. For
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by lachyg 8y ago
Yes!
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by lachyg 8y ago
(I work on Stripe Issuing.) We've been primarily focused to date on companies where issuing cards is core to providing their business to customers, for example a startup that provides expensing customers, or a platform that needs to pu
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by lachyg 8y ago
(I work on Issuing.) Not really. We make it easy for institutions like Monzo to issue and manage cards, but I imagine that's just a fraction of what they've needed to build to run a regulated bank, service their customers, etc etc
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by lachyg 8y ago
Absolutely happy to talk about travel use cases -- we are supporting it today. We also (only) support custom designs.
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by lachyg 8y ago
Emburse are great! They provide far more in the way of user a user experience to set controls, manage budgets, etc. We'd highly encourage going with them! (Stripe Issuing is an API-first product -- if you want to build software like Em

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