Leader profile

Guanming Wang

Building inference infrastructure for robotic world models. Former Google DeepMind reinforcement learning researcher with robotics research published at ICRA at age 17. Previously conducted robotics research at UCL and Tsinghua University.

Current role

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

Recent viewpoints

Distillation and separate transformers speed up world action model inference

Guanming explains optimizations for WAMs, including distillation and separating the model into video and action transformers to avoid decoding future frames, significantly speeding up inference by maintaining world representation in hidden states and reducing flow matching steps.

Guanming Wang World action models and infrastructure Source at 85:31

Recent interviews

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

Aug 8, 2026

Major topics

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