I talked to Haixuan Xavier Tao, founder of 1ms.ai and maintainer of Dora-rs, a Rust framework linking AI and robotics for modular, cloud-first systems.
Haixuan shares his personal journey growing up in a Chinese immigrant family in France, the sense of duty that shaped his career path, and how he went from BCG and BNP Paribas to writing Rust for fun.
We talk about his father's entrepreneurial story, why he walked away from corporate prestige, and how open-source became his outlet to give back.
Also, we get into the limits of current LLMs in robotics, why cloud infrastructure is key for future robot-AI systems, and how Dora is building bridges between hardware-heavy China and software-driven Europe... without VC funding and without ego.
Inspiring and refreshingly honest. Give it a listen!
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