How Tony Zhao launched ACT-2 Preview on X
1.1M views, ranked 757 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
2:25
Introducing ACT-2 Preview The first robotics model to unify broad generalization with high reliability. A single fine-tuning example can teach Memo a new behavior that generalizes. Zero shot, real unseen homes, 99% success rate.
How it compares
A launch means nothing against no one. These are the launches it is actually comparable to, and where this one sits among them.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product release the same kind of announcement | 954 | 692K | 1.5x | 359 |
| over 100K followers accounts of a similar size | 611 | 1.4M | 0.8x | 351 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 1.5x | 757 |
What this launch shows
Tony Zhao posted this from an account with 150K followers and reached 7 times that many people. The usual multiple for over 100K followers is 2.4.
This one did 2.9 times that. It ranks 351 of 611 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 1.5 times the median of 688K views.
Quote posts led, 261 of them at 2.5 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.3.
People were adding their own take, which is how a launch gets argued about and carried into audiences the account does not have. Bookmarks: 1K. Reposts: 480.
The post opens with “Introducing ACT-2 Preview”, the same first word as 25% of launches in the directory. It carries a 2:25 video against a directory median of 65 seconds. Videos over 90 seconds have a median of 651K views in the directory.
The copy runs 35 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41. There is a link in the body, which costs a post some reach and buys it a place to send people.
It went out on a Thursday. Launches posted on a Thursday have a median of 724K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
Giving people something to reply to covers this: the conversation is what carried this one. For the next one, read what viral AI launches share: model launches are the largest category in the directory and travel on the demo.
X analytics explained is the guide for it: what each of these numbers means, with benchmarks by account size. This launch sits in the Robotics and Frontier Lab directories.
Questions about this launch
When did Tony Zhao launch ACT-2 Preview?
Tony Zhao posted the launch on X on 16 July 2026.
How many views did the ACT-2 Preview launch post get?
1,054,335 views at the last read, ranked 757 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 7 times the account's following.
Who posted the ACT-2 Preview launch?
@tonyzzhao, which has 150K followers.
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