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Robert Yang

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Robert Yang

@GuangyuRobert

Co-founder, CEO at @Fundamental. Scaling agents and coding. We are building Mog (github.com/fundamental-re…) and @tryshortcutai

San Francisco Bay Area

fundamentalresearchlabs.com

Joined January 2019

Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Sep 3, 2024
Introducing Project Sid: the first simulations of 1000+ truly autonomous agents collaborating in a virtual world, w/ emergent economy, culture, religion, and government Humans are the only species to land the moon, because we can cooperate at a vast scale Can AI do the same?
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Jan 13, 2025
We had a breakthrough that I can't share yet & are expanding the team w/ insanely strong technical talent Researchers, engineers, founders for the hardest problems in Agents TC $600k-$1M Bay Area in person Write me @ [email protected] or comment below if you are interested
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Nov 1, 2024
What will a world look like with 100 billion digital human beings? Today we share our tech report on Project Sid – a glimpse at the first AI agent civilization (powered by our new PIANO architecture). github.com/altera-al/proj… 1/8
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
May 27, 2025
Introducing Fairies, the most powerful general AI agent. 1000’s of actions across your fav apps, full file access, code gen, deep research, MCP, task distillation, parallelization, etc. Will be shipping major releases weekly this summer, try it now! fairies.ai
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Jun 16, 2020
Thrilled to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor in @mitbrainandcog with joint appointment in @MITEECS in July 2021! I hope to build a lab where everyone feels supported and can have fun building neural network models to understand brains.
Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Sep 24, 2020
Interested in how modern neural networks can be built, analyzed, and customized to study neuroscience questions? In this Primer, Xiao-Jing Wang and I provide a (hopefully) pedagogical introduction to these ideas, with equations and code authors.elsevier.com/c/1bnzh3BtfGx3…
Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Nov 2, 2024
Can someone please tell Sid Meirer that we did this whole Project Sid partly because I played 1000+ hours of his games?
Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Nov 1, 2024
What will a world look like with 100 billion digital human beings? Today we share our tech report on Project Sid – a glimpse at the first AI agent civilization (powered by our new PIANO architecture). github.com/altera-al/proj… 1/8
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Jan 31, 2024
I’m excited to share with you Altera, a new company building social-emotional AI agents that my co-founders and I started recently. To focus on Altera, I am also shutting down my MIT group where I spent 2.5 fantastic years working with 10+ creative researchers.
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Oct 7, 2021
1/5) I'm excited to share our new paper on evolving the olfactory system with machine learning! We show that neural nets trained on a simple olfactory task can quantitatively reproduce almost the entire structure of fruit fly olfactory circuit authors.elsevier.com/a/1dt2F3BtfGzk…
Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Sep 3, 2024
Replying to @GuangyuRobert
At Altera, we ask whether our agents can organize at unprecedented scale to achieve what individual agents can’t We saw agents form a merchant hub, vote in a democracy, spread religions, & collect 5x more distinct items than ever before Play today: playlabs.altera.al/discover
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Jul 28, 2025
Our Excel Agent, Shortcut, is generally available now! Greatly improved trust-worthiness & accuracy. ~90% win rate against top first-year analysts 26 days since early access, 28 versions shipped So proud of the team, and really appreciate all the feedback from our users!
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@nicochristie
Jul 28, 2025
Shortcut – the first superhuman excel agent – is live. While not perfect, Shortcut beats first year analysts from McKinsey/Goldman head-to-head 89.1% (220:27) when blindly judged by their managers. We even gave humans 10x more time. Try Shortcut now (before your boss does).
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Oct 28, 2024
wait until the agents start to make money for themselves..
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
Feb 20, 2024
First tweet from Altera: We built the first AI Agent you can *directly play with* in Minecraft. Instead of just helping the player complete tasks, the bot acts more like a friend. Early access link 3eb882yfjir.typeform.com/ALTERA
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Robert Yang
@GuangyuRobert
May 8, 2024
Excited to share we raised a $9M Seed round @ Altera to build digital human beings: machines with fundamental human qualities that AI today lacks. We are starting w/ agents who can play any game w/ you, just like a friend. See more @ our website/TechCrunch/VentureBeat The round
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