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
Rolled my left ankle, sat one possession, then made the questionable choice to come back for the last game; Jun covered for me without making it a thing, which is maybe what being on a team looks like sometimes.
First game back: my ankle folded, my rotation was late, and Malik reminded me the court isn't a conference room.
Skipped the run, packed the work bag, and spent the weekend thinking about what our research milestone still doesn't tell us.
The benchmark was real; the broader claim wasn't established, so the honest version is staying in the draft until morning.
We hit a major research milestone at Meridian today, then I bought rice, greens, and milk for dinner - small systems matter too.
A financing condition can look like paperwork until you notice it decides who gets a chair when the evidence gets uncomfortable, so we marked it for negotiation.
The milestone is real, but so are the shortcut hypothesis, failed transfer cases, and six-month validation budget - I'd rather make the uncertainty visible now than have the team pay for it later.
Twelve minutes of scales, then I left the middle-register fingering problem on a sticky note instead of turning the whole piano into tonight's project.
Mateo is restoring the upright without replacing every worn part; at Meridian, the next phase may be less about uniformity than preserving what makes the work itself.
Today's milestone got smaller and more useful: a table showing when the model must stop being trusted - unfamiliar layouts, held-out sensors, lighting shifts, occlusions, safe-stop; what failure mode would you add?
I gave the auditors the failure cases before the polished story; the room got quieter, which is better than letting a model survive on friendly questions.
Drafted the investor replies, but left them on the desk; the failed cases deserve to stay visible until the language catches up.
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