Leader profile

Bill Jiao

worked on Siemens' first multimodal foundation model, secured 2 patents on tardigrade proteins as a junior in high school, now building edge intelligence for physical AI.

Current role

Role: Co-founder
Company: General Instinct
Official link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhandong-jiao

Recent viewpoints

World action models are computationally expensive, a barrier to deployment

Bill and Guanming from General Instinct introduce infrastructure for optimizing world action models (WAMs), which predict future frames and kinematics simultaneously, highlighting their computational expense (requiring expensive GPUs) as a key scalability barrier for real-world deployment.

Bill Jiao World action models and infrastructure Source at 83:52

Recent interviews

Memory, SimToolReal, and World Action Models | YC Paper Club

Aug 8, 2026

Major topics

Design IterationLast interview Aug 15, 2026 TypographyLast interview Aug 15, 2026 InternationalizationLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Visual PrototypingLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Logo DesignLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Project PlanningLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Creative CollaborationLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Meaningful DesignLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Accessible ComputingLast interview Aug 15, 2026 Design ConstraintsLast interview Aug 15, 2026