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1X is doubling down on accelerating the path to humanoids becoming fully autonomous. Today we’re announcing the establishment of the 1X World Model Lab, a new frontier research organization dedicated to large-scale embodied world model pretraining. The lab is founded on a simple thesis: robotics is not a fine-tuning problem. To build truly general humanoids, we need to pretrain on the most important data from the very beginning. Joining 1X as Founding AI Researcher and Head of World Models is Samrath Sinha, previously a founding research scientist at Luma AI and a leader in scaling multimodal generative video models. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gPqfsPQm

1X is doubling down on accelerating the path to humanoids becoming fully autonomous. Today we’re announcing the establishment of the 1X World Model Lab, a new frontier research organization dedicated to large-scale embodied world model pretraining. The lab is founded on a simple thesis: robotics is not a fine-tuning problem. To build truly general humanoids, we need to pretrain on the most important data from the very beginning. Joining 1X as Founding AI Researcher and Head of World Models is Samrath Sinha, previously a founding research scientist at Luma AI and a leader in scaling multimodal generative video models. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gPqfsPQm

Building Your NEO | Manufactured in Hayward, CA America’s most vertically integrated humanoid robot factory has now begun full-scale production, with the capacity to build 10,000 NEOs this year. Spanning 58,000 square feet and employing over 200 team members, 1X manufacturing designs and manufactures NEO’s critical components in-house— including motors, batteries, structures, transmission systems, soft goods, sensors and more. With the latest versions of NEO coming off the line and consumer shipments planned for 2026, this is the critical milestone that turns the vision of abundant, general-purpose home robots into reality.

We’re excited to welcome Amy Lentz as our SVP of People at 1X. From the Obama White House to Teach For America to TOMS, where she most recently led organization-wide transformation as Chief People Officer, Amy has built her career at the intersection of strategy, operations, and human performance. She now brings that same expertise to 1X as she shapes our people strategy and culture. She has advised ambitious leadership teams in tech, including Perplexity AI, and built an audience of over one million professionals through her platform Hack Your HR, where she turns executive behavior into practical frameworks. Read More: https://lnkd.in/g7MRshBZ

NEO is starting to learn on its own. The 1X World Model’s latest update is a paradigm shift in robot learning: NEO now uses a physics-grounded video model (World Model) to turn any voice or text prompt into fully autonomous action, even for completely novel tasks and objects NEO has never seen before. By leveraging internet-scale, video data fine-tuned on real robot experience, NEO can visualize future actions, predict outcomes, and execute them with human-like understanding– all without prior examples. This marks the critical first step in NEO being able to collect data on its own to master new tasks all by itself. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gkHJqFSh

From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving.

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We’re excited to welcome Vikram Kothari as VP of Operations to even further accelerate our mission of bringing NEO into homes across America. Vikram's expertise in scaling complex supply chains at SpaceX and track record of streamlining operations in world-class organizations be invaluable on this journey. Full story: https://lnkd.in/dPPXSmW5

1X All Hands | Palo Alto HQ A world full of NEOs is near. Join us on our mission of creating a more abundant future: https://lnkd.in/g9Smvvm7