About
Lucas Ngoo is co-founder and former CTO of Carousell, a mobile marketplace platform. He is now founder and CEO of Cortex AI, which focuses on developing egocentric and robotic datasets.
Lucas Ngoo @lucasngoo
Big release from @allen_ai! @cortexairobot supported Ai2 on 720h of bimanual robot data and ran the real-world evals for MolmoAct2. Largest open dataset of its kind + strong results vs baselines. Congrats to the Ai2 team @DJiafei @hq_fang! https://t.co/X2ZTUONhFL
May 5, 2026 · ♥ 10 · ⇄ 5
Lucas Ngoo @lucasngoo
We’re now deploying mobile bimanual robots in-the-wild collecting real-world data, running model evals, and capturing recovery trajectories for RL https://t.co/9PeqBsrf3f
Mar 19, 2026 · ♥ 58 · ⇄ 14
Lucas Ngoo @lucasngoo
1/ They pretrain a robot world model on ~44k hours of egocentric human video. Mostly RGB. No detailed action labels. So the question is: how do you learn action-conditioned dynamics from unlabeled video? 2/ Their idea is “latent actions.” They train a VAE that takes two https://t.co/TI5VlxcAWs
Feb 21, 2026 · ♥ 103 · ⇄ 11
Founder at Cortex AIYC F25
Intro paths
Lucas went through Y Combinator (Fall 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator — the partner who ran Cortex AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Lucas can intro founders to Cortex AI's investors below.