Chief AI Scientist in a Stealth HW startup. Previously: Stability AI; AMD; Autodesk; CEO of 2 startups (3D + AI). Hanging out on bsky (chrlaf)

Toronto, Canada
I left Stability AI in late July 2024 to join a new stealth HW startup. I want to thank my former Stability AI colleagues for a year and a half filled with exciting challenges, discoveries and technical achievements. I wish them all the best.
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Big milestone for autonomous drug discovery! 🧪 Congrats to @muni_bio on closing the design-to-test loop with @adaptyvbio! Using NVIDIA Proteina-Complexa, their autoresearch agent generated 3 sub-nanomolar TREM2 binders, outperforming previous leaderboards.
@muni_bio now gives agents access to the wet-lab. Using @NVIDIAHealth's Proteina-Complexa + @adaptyvbio validation, muni found 3 sub-nanomolar binders, all of which were better than our hackathon winners. Even if assays take days or weeks, the results automatically feed back into the agent, allowing you to orchestrate autonomous scientific research in parallel.
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Over the past year, I've been volunteering with California Search and Rescue occasionally. If you're in the Bay Area, love hiking or backpacking, want to learn skills like wilderness first aid & navigation, meet like-minded people, and give back to the community, Search and Rescue is an incredible opportunity: cal-esar.org/join-us
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Today, we're announcing not one, but two of the @moonlake team on stage at AUTONOMOUS. @sharonal_lee and @sunfanyun, Co-Founders of Moonlake AI, will be on our Frontier Stage to discuss Where Robots Learn Before the Real World. 🗓️San Francisco, July 16th 📍 The Midway 🎟️ autonomousfuture.co Moonlake builds generative world models that turn a plain-language prompt into an interactive 3D environment in minutes. From text to the system compiling a training experience with physics, agents, and logic. Out of @Stanford's AI lab, and then again out of stealth in late 2025 with a flying start, with a round led by NVIDIA's NVentures & others.
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This Thursday in SF. Come by to say hi, will be sharing some of our latest! luma.com/lk9se5mi
Today, we're announcing not one, but two of the @moonlake team on stage at AUTONOMOUS. @sharonal_lee and @sunfanyun, Co-Founders of Moonlake AI, will be on our Frontier Stage to discuss Where Robots Learn Before the Real World. 🗓️San Francisco, July 16th 📍 The Midway 🎟️ autonomousfuture.co Moonlake builds generative world models that turn a plain-language prompt into an interactive 3D environment in minutes. From text to the system compiling a training experience with physics, agents, and logic. Out of @Stanford's AI lab, and then again out of stealth in late 2025 with a flying start, with a round led by NVIDIA's NVentures & others.
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Replying to @chrmanning
@chrmanning is sharing our approach to embodied general intelligence at AI Engineers! Room 2006
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Makes me happy when we put all our gaming GPUs + Workstations and Macs to work. OxCapsule QWEN 3.5-397B demo piped.video/gDGGy5r29eQ?is=_nwM… via @YouTube
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Introducing Moonlake's 3D Agent. Our agent acts like a technical artist that can build and reconstruct articulated assets and large-scale editable scenes with hundreds of objects from a single image and can improve its generations continuously. Learn more in the thread below.
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We are happy to announce that Moonlake AI has been named on the 2026 @CBinsights AI 100 list. One of the 4 on infrastructure and world models. Read more here: cbinsights.com/research/repo…
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Taking main stage at AWE 2026 to demystify world models alongside @bilawalsidhu. 9:55–10:45 AM, Grand Ballroom. Details in comments #awe2026
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Taking main stage at AWE 2026 to demystify world models alongside @bilawalsidhu. 9:55–10:45 AM, Grand Ballroom. Details in comments #awe2026
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Excited to share that we are working with Nvidia to bring @moonlake's 3D Agent capabilities into NVIDIA's simulation ecosystem (@nvidiaomniverse) to help teams build assets, digital twins, and scenarios at scale. Here are 8 pairs of input images and the generated simulation-ready scenes. Read more here: moonlakeai.com/blog/simulati…
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Real-time neural rendering model @moonlake Works on from any physics/game engine to close the sim-to-real gap. If this is relevant to your team, I'd love to chat (my DM is open)!
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One of the coolest project I've been involved in NVIDIA. The quality is insane. 👀
Today, we released Lyra 2.0, a framework for generating persistent, explorable 3D worlds at scale, from NVIDIA Research. Generating large-scale, complex environments is difficult for AI models. Current models often “forget” what spaces look like and lose track of movement over time, causing objects to shift, blur, or appear inconsistent. This prevents them from creating the reliable 3D environments required for downstream simulations. Lyra 2.0 solves these issues by: ✅ Maintaining per-frame 3D geometry to retrieve past frames and establish spatial correspondences ✅ Using self-augmented training to correct its own temporal drifting. Lyra 2.0 turns an image into a 3D world you can walk through, look back, and drop a robot into for real-time rendering, simulation, and immersive applications. ➡️ Learn more: research.nvidia.com/labs/sil… 📄 Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.13036
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Quote retweet the post and we'll fast track your beta access application 💫 Sign up: app.moonlakeai.com/ Read more here: moonlakeai.com/blog/building…
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🚀 Diffusion too slow? Fix it in a few steps. 📢 Introducing NVIDIA FastGen — a plug-and-play research library for turning slow diffusion models into high-quality few-step generators. ⚡ What’s inside: • Consistency & MeanFlow (CM, sCM, TCM, MeanFlow) • Distribution Matching (DMD, f-Distill, LADD) • Long-video generation (CausVid, Self-Forcing) • Fine-tuning & KD (SFT, CausalSFT, KD, Causal KD) 🧠 Includes: 📷 EDM, DiT, SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux 🎬 WAN (T2V / I2V / VACE), CogVideoX, Cosmos Predict2 ✨ One unified interface. Research-ready. Apache-2.0. 🔗 Blog: nvda.ws/3LARhFy 💻 Code: github.com/NVlabs/FastGen
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What if you could build a gameplay with precision, then restyle it to look like anything - anime, fantasy, cyberpunk? Introducing Reverie: a real-time, programmable diffusion model trained for games, capable of conditioning beyond pixels. AI tools are only meaningful when they can help realize creative vision, not replace it. Sign up for our hackathon in January below to be the first to build on Moonlake 👇
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Looking for an RL algorithm for your video diffusion model? Worried about reward hacking? DDRL might be what you are looking for. Give it a try.
🤔Want a principled way to RL your diffusion model? Check Data-regularized Reinforcement Learning (DDRL)! Post-train @nvidia #Cosmos World Foundation models with a million GPU hours! 🤯 Novel formulation ➡️ Theoretically integrates SFT into RL ➡️ Robust to Reward Hacking 🛑 Details: research.nvidia.com/labs/dir… #DDRL #Diffusion #RL #NVIDIA #Cosmos
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I told my parents that I’d like to drop out of my cs phd program at Stanford a few months back. They didn’t let me, we’re asian :) So I graduated and started @moonlake. @sharonal_lee and I saw urgency, and opportunities. Excited to share that we raised a 28 million dollar seed round to build the future for simulations and games. Grateful for the angels @naval, @goodfellow_ian @stevechen, @JeffDean @rauchg, @emerywells, @JaredLeto, @chrlaf, alongside many more, and the venture partners that we are fortunate to work with: @moislamvc, Shaun Johnson, @chrmanning, Artem Barsukov, Elvin Hao, @mercebent, @veelarco and William Freiberg. If you're a founder and you're not partnering with them, you're making a big mistake. Check out what we're about 👇
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical simulations that can act as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities. At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about. More in 🧵
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