A Conversation with You Liang, Co-Founder of Dream Labs

​What if every new robot didn't have to learn from scratch?

​For years, one of robotics' biggest bottlenecks has been generalization. New hardware, new environments, and new tasks often mean collecting more data, retraining policies, and rebuilding capabilities from the ground up. But what if a single foundation model could power robots it's never seen, performing tasks it was never explicitly trained to do?

​Dream Labs is tackling this challenge head-on. Founded by former NVIDIA GR00T researchers, the team recently emerged from stealth with $90M in seed funding and introduced Dream-1, a World Action Model designed to generalize across robot embodiments, tasks, and environments—with the ambition of making general-purpose robot intelligence accessible to everyone.

​Join Savant for an evening with You Liang, co-founder of Dream Labs as we explore what it takes to build foundation models for the physical world, the breakthroughs making zero-shot generalization possible, and what comes next for the robotics industry.

​Topics will include:

• ​World Action Models: How learning to predict the physical world could unlock a new paradigm for robot intelligence

• ​The generalization problem: Moving beyond robot-specific policies toward models that work across embodiments, tasks, and environments

• ​Scaling robot learning: The role of human video, robot data, and the training approaches that could make general-purpose robotics possible

• ​The next frontier of Physical AI: What cheaper hardware and increasingly capable foundation models mean for robotics adoption

• ​Building at the frontier: The research challenges, technical bottlenecks, and opportunities for founders building the next generation of Physical AI

​This event is designed for founders, robotics researchers, builders, and investors actively thinking about the next generation of Physical AI.

​Agenda:

• ​6:00 PM — Doors Open + Light Bites

• ​6:45 PM — Welcome Remarks

• ​7:00 PM — Fireside Chat

• ​7:30 PM — Audience Q&A

• ​7:45 PM — Closing Remarks

• ​8:00 PM — Networking

• ​9:00 PM — End of event

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