emotion & personality layer of ai @ego_ai_ ๐ธ๐ฌโก๏ธ๐จ๐ฆโก๏ธ๐บ๐ธ/๐ฏ๐ต| ex-meta ai research & astrophysics @ uni | ai, screenwriting, tattoos,๐๐ฝโโ๏ธ, punk/metal
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itโs official: weโre a YC company and just launched ๐๐
๐พ@ego_ai_ is an AI-native simulation engine where players can create 3D animated characters, worlds, and scripts with natural language. Imagine being able to prompt Minecraft or The Sims into existence.
Congrats on launching @peggy_wang + @simulacronist!
ycombinator.com/launches/KeDโฆ
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i was recently discharged from the icu at the sf hospital after traumatic brain injury due to a man hitting me on the back of my head with a metal pipe, completely unprovoked, in the mission in san francisco. this man is known to the police since heโs done this before to other people. afaik they will not be pressing charges or prosecuting this individual due to the state of sf politics.
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there's a non-disparagement clause i was asked to sign by my forbes 30u30 co-founder when she left the company while i was still healing from the blood clots in my brain ๐คทโโ๏ธ so i can't say anything at all
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as a result of his attack, iโm partially blind in my right eye and canโt hear well out of my left ear. he attacked me when i was walking home from the corner store for absolutely no reason. he did not end up stealing my phone or wallet but he did rip off all my jewelry and piercings
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i am confused as to why the sf institutions refuse to take this seriously. i unfortunately have no memory of the incident and pieced this info together from friends who spoke to the police
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it will take me several months to healโฆbut iโm happy to be back to work on @ego_ai_ even though my brainโs at 15% rn
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i am sorry if it takes me while to respond to your DMs or messages. be careful in the mission. unfortunately it seems like sf is still not serious about public safety ๐ฅฒ
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i still have no idea what this man looks like or what his name is (the pics i shared earlier in the thread are of me post-icu discharge). waiting for sfpd to identify the attacker ๐
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water under the bridge. company is making great progress so iโm gonna focus on that ๐ฏ
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my brain is 90% healed and my vision has almost returned. the company has been making amazing progress in spite of everything. so it's all good ๐
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woke up (in tokyo) to this drama: i truly wish peggy nothing but the best with her new endeavor ๐
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iโm hoping this isnโt the same guy that hit me on the head with a metal pipe leaving me half blind (see my profile for details)
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iโm hoping that change finally happens..but the way sf institutions have been stonewalling me and @peggy_wangโs attempts to get more info on the attack has been disappointing.
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thank you for the kind words.. iโm hoping noone else has to go through what i went through. thankfully my co-founder @peggy_wang has been trying to get more info from the institutions so they can hold this person responsible
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for those wondering..i have thankfully made an almost complete recovery in every way except my vision (and mild memory issues). @ego_ai_ has made a ton of progress and will be releasing this whitepaper on our upcoming foundation model training run soon ๐
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iโve not been able to get sfpd to share this information with me. @peggy_wang my co-founder is trying but they are stonewalling her. the institutions seem oddly reluctant to hold this individual accountable.
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"A couple months ago, I stepped away from my role as cofounder at Ego due to differing visions for the company's future."
everyone's got a narrative.
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i will find out in a month or so whatโs permanent, @UCSF neurology dept has been super gracious and helpful in my post-discharge care
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media pressure on our institutions to prosecute violent crime would be a good start: it was shocking to learn that this person is known to the police ๐ฅฒ
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looking into this with help from the yc community and my co-founder. hard for me to do alone due to the state of my brain ๐ค๐ข
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i was asked to by her lawyers. i wanted to go back to healing and just focus on rebuilding the company with what little cognition i had back then. thankfully everyone else in the team stayed and was deeply supportive. i hold no ill will against anyone โฎ๏ธ
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it seems to me like itโs an unofficial policy to
not hold this person accountable for repeated violence. the logic iโve heard from a local is that this manโs violent behavior prevents gentrification by techies ๐ฅฒ
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no drama on my end..just glad to be alive. sad i cannot say what i wish to say. wish her (and everyone) the best. ๐
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thank you for the kind words. we should no longer be tolerating this kind of dysfunction in one of the richest (and most naturally beautiful) cities on earth. civic safety is a civilizational imperative ๐ฅฒ
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not expecting justice due to the state of sf politics but definitely working hard & hopeful on healing back to 100%
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@SFPD thank you for sending over the bodycam footage. itโs hard for me to watch but at some point i will edit it and release it here if thereโs public interest.
i am so grateful to be alive. a lil disheartened that it took this long but i owe an infinite debt of gratitude to @garrytan for helping me get this video.
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iโm not american (iโm a canadian raised between toronto and singapore) so i have no power or voice to affect any kind of change hereโฆbut i do hope my fellow americans get more serious about consequences for violent, anti-social behavior in the cities. i just wanna write codeโฆ
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she was not fired. she resigned on her accord but i am legally not allowed to say anything else. i was pressured to step down as ceo a few weeks before peggy resigned when i was just discharged from the hospital half-blind and on daily blood thinner injections
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i looked to musashi to channel strength in those trying times post January incidentโgrowth is born from hardship & the relentless pursuit of clarity and strength.
musashiโs path was never straight, but every misstep was part of his becoming. helps me navigate my own storms.
onward.
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thank you. iโve made a relatively miraculous recovery in every way except my vision and mild memory issues ๐ซก
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animal crossing + ai charactersโ the ai characters have internal lives and are indistinguishable from human players. just like an irl friend, they can join you in discord, watch netflix with you and also play other games with you. sapience in games.
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iโm hoping for systemic change that returns civility and safety to the streets. unfortunately judges do not have to live with the consequences of letting violent addicts back out to the streets on recognizanceโwe doโso iโm less hopeful.
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YC is life-changing and this is your sign to apply. My DMs are open if you need feedback or interview practice. Godspeed!
We are running a new YC batch this fall!
Applications are now open: ycombinator.com/blog/yc-fallโฆ
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final @ycombinator office hours ๐ฅน gonna miss you lot + our amazing yc group partners @eshear @sdianahu @harjtaggar @dessaigne ๐
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thank you for the swag @0xSigil - EB1 secured โ
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tbh not sure. iโve been in sf since 2017 but have been spending more time in tokyo for work and also because of how much more unsafe sfโs become and how reluctant local authorities have been to improve safety.
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โฆdo applied ai research, make cool videogames and live in peace.
i await the bodycam footage. hoping they release it soon.
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thank you for your DMs and concern about my health; letโs all move on and keep building cool shit. ad astra. ๐ซ
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gifted programs & standardized testing are the great equalizers. singaporeโs GEP & PSLE gave me and my brother, both low-income kids from a rough neighbourhood, a fighting chance at leveling with the financially privileged who could afford tutoring, private school tuition and fancy extracurriculars. my brother and i got a scholarship to raffles institution and acs (independent) respectively because of programs that nyc might eliminate. kill em and u kill meritโour only real shot.
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currently looking into why heโs allowed to roam free..but the institutions have not been cooperative
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@sharsnik joined as cto after completing his phd in neuroscience at upenn, his post-doc under @Yoshua_Bengio at MILA and a career in videogames in tokyo before his phd. iโll make a separate thread introducing him next week. ego lives on ๐ฅ
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while i still remain partially blind, my brain blood clots are gone and i feel miraculously almost back to normal. still have some memory issues but iโm back as founder/ceo of ego. i spend most of my time in tokyo now at our shibuya hq
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this has been the most challenging year of my life in every single dimension, but iโve been somehow granted a second lease on lifeโฆso iโll keep going. thank u
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i can barely sleep in my unit anymore since this assault happened right outside my apartment in the mission when i was heading to the corner store to grab doritos. iโm thankful for @DanielLurie getting involved to reopen the case but it seems like judges in sf do not care
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Announcing Chatterblox: chat, emote and play with your favorite characters in Roblox. We at ego are curious to learn how embodying LLMs and giving them the ability to go beyond chat and take actions, emote and navigate in 3D worlds could lead to our vision of building Sword Art Online. Curious? A thread๐งต
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thank you. support from sf friends & toronto/singapore family has been helping me stabilize ๐ฉบ
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as someone who grew up here, iโd diagnose it as a deep-rooted cultural fear of failure (loss of face) and general disposition to playing it safe in career, art, etc..
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to all those who have @ycombinator interviews scheduled, @peggy_wang and i are happy to help you practice with a mock interview. i still have mild ptsd from my yc interview with @mwseibel and iโd like to help you get prepared ๐ฅฒ DM me if you have an interview coming up!
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the most dramatic weekend in recent silicon valley history has ended - right in time for thanksgiving
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thank you. regardless..i do wish her the best for her future. hope everyone learns from this and grows (i know i have)
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ai agents in games & simulators need believable voices and cartesia has been perfect for us in our work with valheim and roblox
๐ฎ Excited to announce our partnership with @ego_ai_ (YC W24), an AI-native simulation engine transforming gaming experiences.
Led by former Meta AI researchers @simulacronist (also a Top 500 Overwatch player) and @peggy_wang, Ego lets anyone customize rich 3D worlds, NPCs, and agents using natural language - as simple as filling out a character sheet in Dungeons and Dragons
Egoโs recent launch of Thrall, an AI companion for the popular viking game Valheim, represents a breakthrough in NPC design. Thrall responds to voice commands with human-like awareness and emotions, and players can customize his personality traits.
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highly encourage you to apply. i am, once again, happy to give feedback on your YC app: cal.com/v/yc
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indian food in india hits different ๐๐คค๐ฎ๐ณ
highly recommend masque in mumbai for a tour de force through indiaโs regional cuisines
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canโt discuss details sorry. i was fine working and healing simultaneously. i genuinely love what i do and it doesnโt feel like work. i just had to look at screens with an eyepatch on for a while ๐ดโโ ๏ธ
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been gaming and modding since 14 - @ego_ai_ is my lifeโs work ๐ฅน
I love twitter gcs because you run into yc companies which are doing the same thing as your old startup idea from over a year ago which you realized did not have product-founder fit.
Retrospectively grateful to have given up on this cause I would have never started working on what Iโm doing now which is much more aligned.
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yes. deeply disturbed by what happened to her. i would have suffered the same fate if witnesses hadnโt seen this happen and i wasnโt 3 blocks away from the general hospital. i would have died of a stroke. i am
hopeful that change will happenโamericans are (mostly) foundationally good people imo.
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thank you noor. unfortunately iโm afraid this might happen to other innocent people since afaik, the police and legal system have declined to arrest or prosecute the man responsible for these repeated assaults.
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thank you for your kind words deva! iโm doing my best to recover and feel fortunate to have great support networks in sf ๐ฅฐ
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if youโd like to follow along: egoai.com/research
(the full whitepaper will be posted here in a week or so) you can check out our ctoโs neurips paper over there too
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whitepaper out soon, cracked ai research team and also game devs from riot, finetuning our model & building (flush with cash to weather these storms)
egoai.com
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which is whatโcontrolling how people express themselves?? explain what you understand ycโs roots to be.
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big ups to @lightspeedvp @mbaierlentz @f_fatemi21 @GamesBeat @deantak for selecting @ego_ai_ as a 2025 Game Changer. i told the lil agents about this in our simulation and most were elated. the ones who werenโt either had their consciousness deleted or memories altered. โบ๏ธ
The 2025 Game Changers are here! For the second year in a row, weโve partnered with @GamesBeat to recognize and celebrate the 25 most innovative gaming and interactive media startups. Congratulations to these companies, who made the 2025 list and are playing a pivotal role in how we play, work, and connect:
@BitmagicAI, @brilliantlabsar, @getcartwheel, Cosmic Lounge, @eggscapegame, @ego_ai_, @emptyvesselplay, Giant Skull, @k_idofficial, @layer_ai, @LudeoGG, @looknorthworld, @mudstack, @noodlecatgameco, @playpokpok, @PraktikaEnglish, @PlayOnRay, @RegressionGG, @SloydAi, Stroke Games, @Superbloom_Inc, @PlayRunLegends, @womp3D, @TorbieGames, and @yellow_3d_.
Learn more about the 2025 Game Changers and why they were selected: lsvp.com/gamechangers2025
Cc @mbaierlentz, @DeanTak, @GamesBeat
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thereโs a reason i got my o1 visa and its not because of any extraordinary ability in ai ๐
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note i filed an extension on my personal taxes because i absolutely hate everything about taxes - thankfully @fondocom handles my startupโs tax obligations ๐ฐ
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Thanks to our amazing customer Vishnu Hari (@simulacronist), CEO & Co-founder @ego_ai_, for being our model๐๐
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btw this is exactly why singapore, in spite of being famous for its elite education system and grindy work culture, has produced no real innovations of note in the past 30 years. classic asian culture that actively suppresses (and punishes) fun-seeking behavior in favor of doing your duty to family/society/government
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iโm sorry to all the founders that i couldnโt refer in time @ycombinator is down ๐ซก
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got assaulted in sf for no reason (man thought i was a rival gang memberโฆhit me on the back my head with a metal pipe at night) and have suffered a fractured skull and traumatic brian injury. just got out of the icu so things are looking better. violent start to year ๐ฅธ
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they arenโt thinking about this - the sad truth is that they simply do not care. we are not an influential or important constituency for any political party
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