Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer608k followers

The automated life | San Francisco/Silicon Valley AI, robotics, BCIs | Ex-Microsoft, Rackspace, Fast Company | Wrote eight books about the future.

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1Mar 19, '23Steve Jobs, when he formed his first iPhone team of about a dozen people, told them "you are not allowed to hire anyone who has worked on a phone before." I didn't really grok that36.2×3.6M5.6k7603.5k
2Apr 20, '23Which title would you rather have?33.5×3.4M3.6k24527
3Jul 5, '25Grok writes way better notes from my interviews than ChatGPT does. Here's the notes from the interview, coming later, with @markjeffrey. The notes are incredible. I use @descript t22×2.2M3.3k529710
4Jan 12, '25I did 35 videos at CES. The most mind blowing was #9 and the most important for the future is #29. But this is just a very small portion of what is at CES. The award winners are at21.2×2.1M2.9k5441.4k
5Apr 2, '23This is why AI Art is a new art form. It isn’t as easy as it first looks.21.1×2.1M3.4k239199
6Jan 19, '24What spending tens of billions of dollars looks like. Took Tim Cook years, he bought many startups and visited many factories. History will judge his job, but I had a front-row sea20.9×2.1M4k336952
7Jan 1, '23Big year coming in tech. Three major products coming from @OpenAI, @tesla, @apple. All heavy on AI. It feels like 1977. Star Wars and the Apple II came that year. Exciting!19.8×2M5.2k313274
8Aug 30, '23We're back and "Unaligned" this time. A new AI-first interview show starting in September.18×1.8M2k246160
9Nov 4, '23Hmm @elonmusk calls his new AI “grok.” So what does “grok” mean? GPT-4 answers: “The term "grok" comes from Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange L17.4×1.8M5.9k752951
10Apr 24, '25Every single one of you will write the same post someday in next five years. Everyone will. The @waymo customers already say similar too. Today. It is the most impressive piece of 17.3×1.7M3.5k465138
11Apr 26, '23I just realized if @elonmusk wants TruthGPT then he will have to build the best AI validator. Then I realized Twitter is the best validator of all. Think about it. GPT spits out a 17×1.7M3.1k289191
12Oct 23, '23A difference in company philosophy: @neuralink: put wires on brain. @CorticalLabs: grow brain on wires. Cortical Labs just completely changed my dreams and nightmares. Here it is i16.9×1.7M4.3k9513.2k
13Mar 9, '24EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Silicon Valley garage startup building a humanoid robot. $8,000. BOM on robot. @kscalelabs . 3D printed carbon fiber. 26 high torque electric motors that were15.9×1.6M4k5811.5k
14Aug 26, '23Our world changed tonight. In 10 years we will look back at the first public demo of a robot that learned to move around the world by watching only videos. This is a paradigm shift15.6×1.6M4.3k554558
15Oct 27, '25Tesla investors: I used to have a front-row seat on Steve Jobs. Had the first ride in the first Tesla with @elonmusk and have watched him closely ever since. Yes, I'm an investor. 15.6×1.6M4.6k8221.2k
16Jun 6, '23If you can't afford the rich person's computer toys, stay alive. In 1989 I was so jealous of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak who bought a $45,000 color printer to print from Photosho15.2×1.5M4.5k314247
17Nov 11, '25Why do I say that X is the best learning system the world has ever invented? This is a very technical paper on how world models, er VLAs, make robots a lot smarter. Click the Grok 15.1×1.5M2.2k340261
18Oct 10, '25Mile 1,280 without my hands on the wheel. The autonomous age is here. When I first saw autonomous cars they couldn’t complete DARPAs challenge and they didn’t even have a roundabou14.7×1.5M7.2k948287
19Jun 10, '23"Zuckerberg is gonna sell shitloads of Quest 3.0's this Christmas because it is $500, not $3,500." I see this kind of claim all the time. Or a similar one "a Ferrari is better than14.6×1.5M3.4k405886
20Mar 10, '25Tesla is in a free fall. Its products are getting attacked. Its customers are getting mocked. Flipped off, and worse. To the point where I've seen several bumper stickers in Silico14.6×1.5M7k808652
21Mar 26, '23This is your regular warning. You can not believe ANYTHING anymore that is coming from a digital device. Validate everything.14.4×1.4M3.1k513160
22May 14, '23This is the scariest tweet I've made in a long time. On Friday I met with a psychiatrist, @MundinMd and did a 30 minute session, where I was her patient. These are the notes that t14×1.4M2.2k3992.9k
23Feb 4, '24This is the secret sauce. Apple has stores. Employees are trained to take feedback and give it to developers internally. Zuckerberg has no stores. No way to show customers his devi13.6×1.4M2k195256
24Mar 5, '24Never seen F1 like this before.13.5×1.4M5.1k365326
25Nov 3, '25Grok learned EVERYTHING about this farmers market in a single video. Read what it learned. It is stunning:13.1×1.3M2k320316
26May 15, '24Fun with LLMs: My friend is seeing a cardiologist for some heart issues. He took the ECG reading and gave it to ChatGPT (4o model). He got the AI Safety Guardrails to turn off by l12.6×1.3M1.8k1621.2k
27Aug 1, '23My Tesla's AI is the most amazing software of my life. By far. And I had a famous Silicon Valley blog that covered innovation for more than a decade so have seen thousands of piece12×1.2M2.4k237131
28Apr 2, '23If I died would my Twitter account stop? The AI to continue this is in the labs. I have given @elonmusk 16 years of data including thousands of hours of audio of my voice on Twitte11.7×1.2M2k9566
29Jul 10, '25Grok 4 tips for video game developers:11×1.1M2.1k448341
31Oct 7, '23You might think Elon is trying to be funny but I met one startup in Israel that did brilliant computer vision work and after my cameras were off admitted they get stoned in company10.3×1M1.9k102151
32Nov 3, '25Hey Grok, what are your favorite Robert Scoble or Elon Musk videos? Everyone is missing how useful Grok has gotten. It knows EVERYTHING in every video uploaded here on X.10.1×1M2.2k362160
33Oct 31, '24I am in love with my robot. You are an idiot if you don’t want a ride. AI is the wildest technology of my life.9.9×995k4.2k364187
34Oct 28, '25Holy shit. Grokipedia knows EVERYTHING about me with very few wrong things. Stunning.9.8×986k2.4k265151
35May 11, '25When I was a kid if you told me someday we would aim a plate at space and the plate would talk to a grid of satellites orbiting the earth to be able to talk to my friends I would h9.7×980k4.3k531145
36Mar 5, '24Cybertruck in Tesla’s R&D parking lot is sick.8.5×858k3k176169
37Sep 19, '23This is why innovation matters. I used to cover innovation in auto industry. It is why I got the first ride in Mercedes autonomous vehicle and first ride in first Tesla. Only one a8.4×840k2.1k21198
38Mar 29, '23Let’s say USA pauses its AI development. Will China? No. Can we afford to fall six months behind?8.3×835k3.4k23486
39May 13, '24Tomorrow’s @OpenAI announcements are more important than most people believe or understand.6.4×643k2k157229
40Feb 2, '24No one invests in packaging like Apple. I saw this inside the factories in China. Steve Jobs asked his employees to bring him the box that consumers would open and let him open the6.3×631k2.4k98187
41Feb 3, '24Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer electronics appliance of my life. By far.6.2×621k2k133137
42Jul 26, '24Wow. @Jandodev just showed me a prompt humans can’t read but LLMs understand this language better. The San Francisco AI people are designing a new language. In stealth. You are fir6.1×618k2.6k2802k
43Jan 23, '24Spatial Computing could make tasks better…5.6×566k2k185324
44Jul 14, '23I got a surprise $1,200 today from Twitter. Twitter has gotten way better since a competitor appeared. For one some people have left. But their content is lightweight. So Twitter h5.5×549k3.6k12631
45Sep 12, '248,100 drones. We can’t compete.5.2×520k4.2k320328
46Jan 15, '24How many more months before this gets way better than any human? Less than 17.5.1×513k2.1k216173
47Mar 22, '24Tesla AI is very underrated. Had two AI founders while my car drove us through SF. If you have a friend with FSD beg them for a ride. If you think @elonmusk has competition you are4.8×481k3.6k284153
48Mar 16, '25Why does @sama want Chinese models banned? Tomorrow a major Chinese company is launching a new multimodal model that matches @OpenAI’s 4.5 but at a far lower cost.4.4×446k4.8k283508
49Dec 28, '24I am 100% behind this. I am American born. Whiter than almost anyone in America. My mom was born in Germany. My wife was born in Iran. Everywhere in my neighborhood in San Jose are3.9×392k1.8k95102
51Sep 5, '24If you are trying to learn how to use LLMs in your own software this book is a good place to start.3.9×389k3.9k4294.6k
52Apr 27, '23Every once in a while someone tries to get me to leave Twitter. I show them my TweetDeck. No one else has a real time information system like this which brings me 55,000 of the sma3.8×379k2k172324
56Jun 9, '24Tesla has been planning its AI moves for a decade. How do i know that? Because I studied automotive innovation for a decade. Mercedes Benz gave me its first ride in its first auton2.9×293k2.3k230187
57Nov 28, '24The low-latency teleoperation engineering is being missed and misunderstood. This will always be a feature of Optimus. Even decades from now. Imagine you are on a business trip abr2.9×289k2.5k152171
59Jul 7, '23This place is a lot nicer now that all the Elon haters are gone.2.7×270k2.7k13311
61Nov 1, '24I just voted. I held my nose. Both candidates are the worst I have had to choose between in my life. Good luck to us all.2.5×247k2k4936
62Jun 29, '25I saw @wholemars (Omar) was blocked by Elon. That caused a bunch of drama in the Tesla community as divorces like these encourage people to pick sides and some pull out their bigge2.5×247k2.2k5576
64Mar 18, '25My brother just called. Said he found a used Tesla Model S for $35,000 in Virginia with 22,000 miles. And a used Model 3 for $22,000. Said he never thought he would be able to affo2.2×216k4.8k19586
65Apr 2, '25My 17 year old son is heavily autistic. He has unique traits. He can tell you more about old monster movies than anyone I know. He can't answer any question that starts with "why?"2.0×202k2k110117
70Dec 10, '18For @elonmusk an Autopilot sunset. Just part of the 100+ miles our @Tesla drove today. Takes stress out of driving and lets me enjoy San Francisco’s beauty.1.7×03.7k31433
71Oct 16, '22The future of audio is Silicon speakers. Yesterday I was invited to hear the future of audio on a visit to This Silicon wafer has hundreds of speakers on it. Yesterday they showed 1.7×02.6k374482
72Sep 14, '2518 years with an autistic kid. Our son, Milan, turns 18 today. When he was two a doctor told us we might never get to talk to him. Several he goes to school with aren't verbal. He 1.7×170k2.3k57185
73Nov 8, '22Disruption is coming. GPT-4 is better than anyone expects. And it is one of several such AIs that will ship next year.1.7×02.7k303382
75Oct 17, '24Hahah. @elonmusk lets all of us talk for days about how it isn’t AI then releases this video.1.6×160k2.2k95129
76Mar 28, '25When @lexfridman says this is important to watch, he isn't kidding. It has been extremely hard to defend @elonmusk in Silicon Valley lately. My family is livid that I'm still suppo1.6×158k3.7k373351
77Oct 9, '22Last night I met an electrical engineer who is working at Tesla. He was effusively positive about his employer. He laughed about the Cybertruck being able to float. “If @elonmusk s1.5×03.5k17134
78Jun 24, '19My @Tesla Model 3 updated again last night. Damn @elonmusk is getting his programmers to ship amazing updates every few weeks. I've never seen another company, or product, like it.1.5×03.6k1198
80Sep 21, '23I engage with people who have few followers. Why? Cause fuck the algorithm.1.4×142k2.5k8512
82May 28, '22Apple's WWDC will be the first of three different events that Apple is preparing for the next year introducing the world to augmented reality (a new form that we haven't seen yet).1.4×01.9k305373
83Jun 8, '24I am voting today for @elonmusk to get the compensation he was promised in 2018. I waited so long (this is the last weekend for @tesla investors to vote) to see if someone or somet1.4×137k1.8k13827
85Aug 20, '21Tesla is the true meta verse company. NOT Facebook. NOT Apple. NOT Google. NOT Niantic. NOT any other company. It is so ahead. I'm sitting with nerds who build AI and their mouths 1.1×02.3k24346
86Jul 19, '22“Elon Musk is an asshole.” My family reminded me of that yesterday. They all carry iPhones. Wait until they learn about the kind of person Steve Jobs was.1.0×02.3k10418
87Oct 21, '25Holy shit. @tesla Self Driving. Wow. @wholemars was right. Even the matrix headlights improved. Waymo is way inferior.1.0×101k2.4k190120
88Nov 3, '18Autopilot. Watch my @Tesla drive itself for miles through Silicon Valley traffic. @elonmusk your team is unbelievable.0.9×02.1k14418
90Nov 17, '24It is like meeting God himself. Only he is so nice!0.8×80k2.2k6264
91Jan 2, '25If I was @elonmusk I'd put this in the @petersen_museum in the lobby. Or, the lobby of its headquarters in Texas. The engineering that kept the battery from catching fire, and the 0.8×80k2.2k19861
93Oct 14This week we discuss that AI can scale faster than the grid can. @IrenaCronin and I write a free newsletter every week on different current AI topics. AI is scaling faster than the0.1×6.9k38119

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