Jim Fan ✓

@DrJimFan · Views my own. Contact → · joined 12 Dec 2012

NVIDIA Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist. Co-Lead of GEAR lab. Solving Physical AGI, one motor at a time. Stanford Ph.D. OpenAI's 1st intern.

582 195Followers

3 145Following

4 228Posts total

1.3MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views91 650this account5 854median for 100K–1M

Reach, %15.74%this account2.44%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %1.21%this account1.42%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	91 650	5 854	15.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.74%	2.44%	6.45×
Engagement rate	1.21%	1.42%	0.85×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

713.3K8 May

195.1K

38.7K

6.3K

106.4K24 Jul

76.9K20 Aug

167.3K21 Aug

36.1K4 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%8 May

0.13%

0.30%

0.78%

0.72%24 Jul

1.71%20 Aug

0.68%21 Aug

1.72%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.42%.

What the audience does

Likes49.8%7 342 in total

Reposts6.5%964 in total

Replies3.3%487 in total

Quotes1.3%195 in total

Bookmarks39.1%5 760 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Good old days at OpenAI in 2016: an agent stares at screen pixels, moves a mouse, and books a flight on United. We called it World of Bits, inside OpenAI Universe. 10 yrs later, Astra is reincarnated in the same universe. Even the naming is astronomically correct 😆 Universe was 36.1K views · 530 likes · 44 reposts · 39 replies 04 Sep 2026 The sense of touch is the most criminally under-explored modality in robotics. Imagine doing sleight of hand wearing thick oven mitts. That's exactly how a robot feels today if it were alive. A magnetic piece snapping into place, a paper cup peeling out of a stack, a USB https:// 167.3K views · 889 likes · 123 reposts · 93 replies 21 Aug 2026 Seeing a hype wave around GEN-1.5, and rightfully so. Lots of respect to Pete & Andy for executing so well. The secret is in the naturally repetitive motions in human-collected data. There're 2 main sources for such repetitions: (1) Symmetric patterns. Sorting, tidying, and 76.9K views · 1.1K likes · 132 reposts · 46 replies 20 Aug 2026 Stay hungry, stay foolish. Absolute legend https://t.co/PMHyBdkxGT 106.4K views · 673 likes · 41 reposts · 48 replies 24 Jul 2026 @DrJimFan "I think our generation was born too late to explore the earth and too early to explore the stars. But we were born just in time to solve robotics." Thanks for another wonderful talk, @DrJimFan 6.3K views · 40 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 08 May 2026 The Physical Turing Test, May 2025 at Sequoia AI Ascent https://t.co/mkjD4wr05d 38.7K views · 100 likes · 8 reposts · 7 replies 08 May 2026 Robotics: Endgame on YouTube https://t.co/X2IwZqw5IT 195.1K views · 228 likes · 22 reposts · 6 replies 08 May 2026 I promise this will be the best 20 min you spend today! Robotics: Endgame, the sequel to my last year's Sequoia AI Ascent talk, "Physical Turing Test". I laid out the roadmap for solving Physical AGI as a simple parallel to the LLM success story. Be a good scientist, copy https:/ 713.3K views · 3.8K likes · 589 reposts · 245 replies 08 May 2026