在为我的节目采访 Aseon Labs 首席执行官时，我感觉自己正在见证一种新型初创公司的诞生 —— 这种公司利用机器人的商品化和 AI 的进步，以更少的资源做更多的事。
While interviewing the CEO of Aseon Labs for my show , I got the feeling I was witnessing a new kind of startup — one that leverages the commoditization of robotics and advances in AI to do more with less.
仅凭 10 人团队和 1000 万美元融资，Aseon 正在做一件不久前还需要数年和庞大团队才能尝试的事：他们正在制造车位大小的舱体，配备机械臂，可为自动驾驶汽车提供清洁和充电服务。
With a team of just 10 people and $10 million in funding, Aseon is doing something that, not long ago, would have taken years and a massive team to attempt: They are building parking space-sized pods equipped with robot arms that can clean and charge autonomous vehicles.
我是公司外部第一个见到其“机器人维修站”的人。他们刚刚花了整个周末通宵达旦地焊接组装、调试功能。工程师们用记号笔在机械臂压出凹痕的车身位置上签上了自己的名字。
I was the first person outside the company to see the its “robotic pit stop” for autonomous vehicles. They had just spent the weekend pulling all-nighters to weld it together and troubleshoot its function. The engineers wrote their names using Sharpies on the places where robotic arms made dents in the vehicles.
我最喜欢的一个细节是：我注意到 Aseon 的一名工程师（一位有真才实学的技术人员）正用一条 ChatGPT 提示词来给机器人编程。既然 AI 能帮你写代码，为什么还要用 ROS 和 C++ 等编程语言呢？
My favorite part was when I noticed that one of Aseon’s engineers (someone with real technical chops) programming the robot with a ChatGPT prompt. Why use programming languages like ROSS and C++ when AI can do that for you?
首席执行官 George Kalligeros 说，团队不爱承认他们用了多少 AI，但他后来跟我吹嘘公司每月在 Token 上的支出达六位数美元。创新在 AI 加持下可能需要更少的人，但仍然需要魄力。
CEO George Kalligeros said the team doesn’t like to admit how much AI they use, but he later bragged to me about the company’s six-figure-a-month token spend. Innovation may require fewer people with AI, but it still needs moxie.
值得注意的是，Aseon 并非唯一一家每月 Token 支出达六位数的公司；Anthropic 在其 S-1 文件中披露，截至今年 9 月，近 2000 位客户的支出达到或超过 100 万美元，1.19 万位客户的支出至少为 10 万美元。
Notable Aseon isn’t the only company with a six-figure monthly token spend; Anthropic revealed in its S-1 that nearly 2,000 customers spent $1 million or more this year through September, and 11,900 spent at least $100,000.