Alfred Spector is a Professor of Practice in Computer Science at MIT. Previously, CTO at Two Sigma and Global VP of Research & Special Initiatives at Google.
New York and Boston
Joined August 2026
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Just published The Synthesis is Here in The American Scholar. Key points: 1) Synthiety—a social order where human society & AI are inextricably integrated. 2) Shaping synthiety requires both the Liberal Arts & tech wisdom. 3) Pragmatic proposals. #AI #LiberalArts #Synthiety
Congrats, Flappy, on your Series A and your deep, full-stack approach to improving modern AI! Blending systems thinking with deep AI expertise already seems to be creating architectural elegance that will accelerate AI progress and improve its efficiency.
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We’ve spent the past year developing new primitives for GPUs. We believe this enables new algorithms to change how machines learn, open new markets, and dramatically reshape AI’s cost structure.
We have raised a $1 billion Series A, co-led by Index and Lux.
Navigating "synthiety" requires more than technical answers; it also needs insights from historians, economists, philosophers, political scientists, and humanists to guide how people and synthetic intelligence integrate. Read more: theamericanscholar.org/the-s…
Bridging the Two Cultures: In the 1959 "Two Cultures" essay, C. P. Snow warned of a deep schism between scientists and humanists that hindered global problem-solving. As AI advances rapidly, bridging this gap between humanists and technologists is more urgent than ever.
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Cassie is glowing (the skylight is an unpaid actor)
We're also sharing the newest generation of Cassie, a general warehouse and factory worker for bulk tasks. Customers from family-owned manufacturers to Fortune 50 distributors trust Cassie in their critical operations.
Cassie is picking the first day of most deployments, with ~40 day median timing from signed paperwork to robots in production.
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MassRobotics Resident @tutorintel also announced their newest generation of Cassie. Congrats!
We're also sharing the newest generation of Cassie, a general warehouse and factory worker for bulk tasks. Customers from family-owned manufacturers to Fortune 50 distributors trust Cassie in their critical operations.
Cassie is picking the first day of most deployments, with ~40 day median timing from signed paperwork to robots in production.
Alfred Spector retweeted
We're also sharing the newest generation of Cassie, a general warehouse and factory worker for bulk tasks. Customers from family-owned manufacturers to Fortune 50 distributors trust Cassie in their critical operations.
Cassie is picking the first day of most deployments, with ~40 day median timing from signed paperwork to robots in production.