Ted Xiao ✓

@xiao_ted · San Francisco · joined 20 Oct 2013

Founding Member of Technical Staff @PrometheusInc. Previously Gemini, Robotics @GoogleDeepMind. Posts about frontier models, physical AGI, and scaling.

135 153Followers

808Following

1 830Posts total

90.5KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views11 764this account6 178median for 100K–1M

Reach, %8.70%this account2.63%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.50%this account1.40%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	11 764	6 178	1.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.70%	2.63%	3.31×
Engagement rate	0.50%	1.40%	0.36×

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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

40.4K10 Oct

2.8K

26211 Oct

18.4K14 Aug

11.1K17 Aug

12.4K19 Aug

5.1K31 Aug

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.91%10 Oct

1.01%

0.38%11 Oct

0.17%14 Aug

0.77%17 Aug

0.98%19 Aug

0.24%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes66.4%552 in total

Reposts7.1%59 in total

Replies3.6%30 in total

Quotes1.1%9 in total

Bookmarks21.8%181 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

how beautiful that the strongest known alignment technique currently is divine judgement the panopticon watches. the grader will know. every thoughtcrime shall be laid bare. 5.1K views · 9 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies 31 Aug 2026 In-context learning for robot control has been a holy grail for many years. GEN-1.5 is the best result on this frontier I have ever seen! Feels like a step change moment; getting goosebumps reminiscent of the first times I played with GPT-3. 12.4K views · 109 likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies 19 Aug 2026 I'll be attending #ActuateSF this week🤖. Cool progress on generalizable robot foundation models, but I am increasingly interested in the design, engineering, prototyping, and manufacturing of robot hardware systems. If you're building in this space, please reach out! 11.1K views · 75 likes · 4 reposts · 7 replies 17 Aug 2026 do not strive for a ChatGPT for X moment strive for a Kaplan et al. for X moment 18.4K views · 28 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 14 Aug 2026 @xiao_ted @xf1280 @lgraesser3 @ks_konyushkova @m0hitsharma @jackyliang42 Nice! Open source? 262 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 11 Oct 2025 Our team has pushed the Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 model to full production, where anyone in the world can unlock world class Embodied Reasoning at Flash-scale cost and speed. Try it today! https://t.co/ntiPfbualU 2.8K views · 23 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 10 Oct 2025 Fundamental spatial and temporal understanding is the bedrock upon which robots will learn motor control. These types of Embodied Reasoning capabilities enable policy learning but also inference abilities like image or video conditioning. We just released a new SOTA ER model! h 40.4K views · 308 likes · 42 reposts · 11 replies 10 Oct 2025