Excited to welcome @hamostaf04 and crew to our team. We need the best engineers to build the best tech products for seniors.

Canada has cities that are globally famous for very specific things. 🇨🇦 Toronto → finance Vancouver → film Montreal → AI + gaming Waterloo → tech Calgary → energy Edmonton → research Halifax → ocean economy Winnipeg → aerospace Canada isn’t one economy. It’s a collection of specialized economic engines.

At Proximal, we believe that building our own research infrastructure is crucial to design the highest-quality training data Today, we are sharing more information about our internal post-training stack

How do you build the most diverse UMI dataset in robotics? In the last 8 weeks, we scaled an international UMI data collection operation from 5 to 90 operators, built out a dataset of over 1M+ unique tasks, and continue to capture over 45k+ new tasks each day. Robotic World Models require much higher diversity of tasks than imitation learning. Here's the why and how behind our operations. 🧵

Proximal builds infrastructure that enables AI to improve from real-world experience. In the past year, we have grown to more than $200M in annualized revenue helping frontier labs and enterprises improve coding agents. Now, we are expanding beyond software engineering. Recent progress in mathematics demonstrates what happens when models are trained in domains with massive amounts of public data and easy verifiability, making it easy to find weaknesses, generate training tasks, and iterate quickly. We build infrastructure that enables this feedback loop in other domains: we are excited about a world in which AI systems design targeted drugs, accelerate chip design, and rewrite legacy software that still runs hospitals, power grids, governments, and other critical infrastructure. Since starting, we have assembled a small team of researchers and engineers and built world-class infrastructure for post-training and synthetic data research to overcome the challenges of scaling manual data curation. Our team comes from Cursor, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence, Prime Intellect, Citadel, and Jane Street. More than half are former founders. We’re fortunate to be backed by investors who share that vision, including @generalcatalyst who led our $15M Seed Round at a $300M valuation, as well as @chemistry, @svangel, @dvlamoen and individuals like @LiamFedus, @kevinweil, and @bernhardsson