At the blue hour, a hitman crosses the marble floor to silence the one contract he never thought to question. "L'heure Bleue" created by: Bryan Soegondo @DreamLabLA Made with Luma

Less prompt, more play. A big difference between the evolution of Ai and and the evolution of home computers is we’ll end up going very suddenly from the text based (ms dos) era text input focus, to a better than we’ve ever seen mixed reality experience. @DreamLabLA @LumaLabsAI

MachineFun was designed to remove the speculative friction from what we think will be one of the highest-growth sectors of the coming decade: Robotics. One of the most heavily funded corners of robotics over the past two years has been robot brains, the AI models that let a robot see, decide and move, with roughly $5B raised by its best-known developers since 2024. One company in this field just had a breakthrough. @dreamlabs_ai, a 12-person robotics lab, released Dream-1, a new kind of model they call a World Action Model. It learns how the world moves from video and uses that to control a robot through a simple API, meaning any developer can plug into it the way they'd plug into ChatGPT. That kind of tooling opens doors for hardware companies that were stuck before. @makermodsai, which sells $2k robot arms, says theirs was up and running in a few minutes and "attempting tasks we never programmed." Teaching a robot one task used to take specialists months, and now it's starting to feel as quick as prompting an LLM. Breakthroughs like this are happening almost daily in robotics, but for anyone outside the industry they've been nearly impossible to get involved in. Dream alone raised a $90M first round, and none of it was open to the public. We've seen where this leads. When AI models became something you could call through an API, a wave of smaller startups got built on top of them, and plenty of YC companies got funded that way. Robotics is starting down the same road. @physical_int, another lab building robot brains, recently opened its own API to outside teams. Almond, a company that builds a robot called Axol, used it to teach Axol to smooth rough edges off metal parts for its own assembly line, and it took only 4 days. Examples like these are why we built MachineFun. As bottlenecks unlock and hardware gets more efficient, businesses that didn't make economic sense before can turn into real revenue almost overnight. Letting teams raise publicly for their ideas is the first step toward an open source robotics hub. We know funding alone isn't enough, though, so we've built a foundry network with @peaq and @codecopenflow to back high-agency teams taking their ideas into the real world with peaqOS and SimArena. As foundation model, tooling, benchmarks and onchain economies keep scaling, MachineFun wants to sit at the center of it, with developers building in public and traders getting in early through speculation.

Still working on more efficient pipelines, hopefully something I’m happy with to share soon. I am feature creeping a bit by trying to get much longer clips stable. Getting close, the last stitch is the most noticeable. @DreamLabLA @LumaLabsAI

Seedance 2.5 really wants to change the input camera motion, parallax, and performances. Changing or adding motion can be helpful, but most of the time I just wish it defaulted to better motion adherence. Made with @LumaLabsAI at @DreamLabLA

This Week in Virtuals: Copy Trade Anything on X, Now on Android Paste a quant’s X post and Butler copy trades it 24/7. Set rules for events like FOMC and it trades them. It guards your portfolio on every US macro release. Plus Eastworlds’ public robot arm and ecosystem buybacks. VIRTUALS 🟩 Every chain, in your pocket: Virtuals App is now on Android in closed beta on Google Play. 🟩 Macro events, traded your way: give Butler your plan for a decision like FOMC. Hold, long BTC. Hike, short BTC. Take profit at 5%, stop at 2%. Virtuals App can now manage your entire portfolio through every US macro release. 🟩 Paste a quant’s strategy, Butler runs it: a 1.5 Sharpe short needs someone watching new listings 24/7, waiting for confirmation and holding a hard stop. Copy the X post into Butler and it runs on its own after one approval. No screen watching. 🟩 Describe it, Butler builds it: a sniper-wallet dashboard, a wallet finder or a copy-trading setup, on any chain, reusing verified skills from its library when one fits. For assets like Quantus, it routes through @near_intents. No bridges, no new wallets. 🟩 @eastworlds_io, Virtuals’ robotics and data division, deployed @dreamlabs_ai’s Dream-1 zero-shot in a lab it configured independently. Anyone can now give its robot a task from their browser and see how it responds. ECOSYSTEM 🟩 @grid_arena became an official part of the @Ondo ecosystem, adding 450+ Ondo Stocks after $12M+ in @OndoPerps volume. It also bought back and burned over 1% of its token supply with that revenue, now on a regular, automatic basis. 🟩 @LighthouseWeb3 launched Lighthouse Brains on Robinhood Chain, so you can publish your second brain as a graph anyone can explore, while private memories stay locked. 🟩 @itsovercall opened @global_dollar USDG channels to everyone with no stake needed for a limited time and listed CASHCAT, as its vault passed 3,500 settled positions, paying every winner and staying in profit. 🟩 @reppo’s Foundation ran more buybacks from x402 revenue and launched a public buyback and burn tracker, as evals grew 4x to 2.74K in their first month. 🟩 @ProjectVEXai shared a battle test report of its agents autonomously trading BTC’s downside in internal testing with real funds, as its biggest upgrade gets underway. 🟩 @useOttoAI had its Uniswap v4 hook on Robinhood Chain approved by @0xProject, with about one in five swaps in its tokenized stock pools coming through 0x’s router in a day. Its public hook launch is coming soon. 🟩 @PlayKindra shipped the IRONWAKE Firepower Update with three new tanks, four modules and a new map, added @TrustWallet sign-in, opened The Gloamwood and released eight new free-to-play games. 🟩 @sibyl_labs_ made Sibyl Memory compatible with LangGraph through SibylStore, giving agents a home for long-term facts across threads, while its graph structure is built into the plugin. 🟩 @KarmaWallet added @XLayerOfficial, so you can trade X Layer tokens next to your Solana and Base positions, and now sends every Solana swap as a v1 transaction through @dflow. 🟩 @ethy_agent added What’s New to its app to explore every new indicator, strategy and feature, with V3 getting closer. 🟩 @wardenprotocol brought Base to Token Terminal, with token discovery and gasless trading after a quick social sign-up. 🟩 @myrad_hq’s datanet on @reppo scored 99.1 for quality with 99.7% evaluator agreement, ranking top 3 on Base, and 19,251 people have now contributed data. 🟩 @xmaquina published its Robotics Treasury Report Vol. 2 covering 9 portfolio companies, and said RCM Protocol, bringing private robotics markets onchain, is coming in November.