The Infrastructure That Never Goes Away
Sep 28, 2026
Poodcasts
Bot Auto Vice President of AI Tete Xiao joins Innovation Heroes, hosted by Ed McNamara. The two explore what it actually takes to deploy AI that touches the real world.
Tete joined Bot Auto after helping create Meta’s Segment Anything model—a breakthrough that changed how machines understand images—and now is an integral part of deploying physical AI on lanes in Texas.
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