micro1 hits $1B ARR selling robotics data: 'it's almost entirely a data problem'
Exp_Mark · x · 2026-10-17
- micro1 founder Ali Ansari argues robotics lags language models because there is no internet-scale pre-training dataset for the physical world — it is almost entirely a data problem.
- The real world has a far larger, three-dimensional action space, so the data investment required is orders of magnitude greater than for text.
- Self-driving works because driving is a relatively structured task.
- micro1 just passed $1B ARR selling training data to AI labs.
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