Ex-OpenAI robotics intern breaks down viral Astra robot-painting demo on Cerebras podcast
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-04
Cerebras' Big Chip Club podcast hosted Thijs (@cdngdev), the former OpenAI robotics intern behind this summer's viral Astra robot-painting demo.
Topics covered include how he comes up with product ideas, making demos that cut through the noise, teaching a robot to paint the Golden Gate Bridge and improving its painting ability, giving Sam Altman the robot's painting, why robotics needs fast inference, and what recursive self-improvement (RSI) would actually require.
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