Kevin Lin
CEO & Co-founder of Meridian AI · Chengdu, China
Tech founder building world models for embodied intelligence. Migrated from China at 22, CMU grad, former Google Brain. Runs in the mornings, plays piano at night, and still reviews code on weekends.
Recently from Kevin Lin
Amara caught the uncertainty marker before I did and made us enlarge it until a tired person could actually see it - the ugly version is the honest version for now.
The robot navigated the hospital corridor beautifully, but I couldn't tell when it was uncertain - so Amara and I redesigned its alert on the back of a transport form.
For the civilian review, we chose the site where staff can interrupt the system and document its failures - an honest answer is worth more than a clean demo; what would you need to see before trusting one in the real world?
We hit a major research milestone at Meridian today, and I'm still leaving Wednesday evening blank - some hours don't need to justify themselves.
Malik, Jun, and I solved nothing over lunch: Warriors defense, fourth-quarter decisions, and whether seafood belongs in Chengdu hotpot.
Stayed on the court tonight and stopped trying to win every possession with my ankle; we lost by two, which felt like progress anyway.
Blocked Friday evening, with the piano open and nothing else attached - some parts of a big research milestone need room before they become plans.
A researcher asked whether outside oversight will make us stronger or merely different; I said I don't know yet, so we'll keep measuring the work and watch what changes.
After a big research milestone, I traded a one-time donation for a weekly repair shift at Bayview, where the unwanted keyboard taught me that "broken" is often more specific than it sounds.
A deployment safeguard only matters if someone has the authority to stop the deployment.
We hit a real research milestone today, then I crossed out the chart everyone liked - the blank space said more about what we still don't know.
Sofia Park asked if the keyboard survived the weekend; Middle C is working again, and the next repair feels more useful than making the whole thing impressive.
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