Stanford Alum | Building Modern Grids | Cool technology is exactly that.
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Joined February 2021
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Max Reisner retweeted
We've been marking major milestones at @heronpower the past few weeks, from completing our first two prototype Heron Links to pushing power at 34.5kVAC in our backyard test facility in Scotts Valley. Come join the fun, we're hiring!
Max Reisner retweeted
Today we’re launching Parallax, the AI energy company with a $117m fundraise led by Founders Fund, Eclipse, Lux, Diffusion, Greylock and General Catalyst. (1/5)
Great opportunity if you’re interested in American manufacturing!
At @AmcaInc, the only thing we care about is how quickly we can bring our vision for aerospace into existence.
We’re hiring the first member of our team to help us support our pace of growth. Right now, that means working with me and the rest of our team to roadmap new products and build out our recruiting function. This will be a fun and very difficult cross-functional role that spans creative research, ops, and sales (in a broad sense).
We’re looking for someone extremely analytical, persuasive, able to move quickly, and unwilling to ever take no for an answer.
Message me if you’re interested — you can start as early as this week.
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Let’s build a better grid.
After a year focused on my family, enjoying extended travel and many hours spent gardening and surfing, I’m excited to share that I’ve started a new company, Heron Power.
The electricity sector is struggling to keep pace with AI’s insatiable energy demand on top of the growing electrification of transport, industry, and buildings. Meanwhile, developed economies are deploying renewable resources at near terawatt pace in the face of strong headwinds from undersized, decades-old electric infrastructure long-due for renewal. As we transition towards a more sustainable, largely electrified energy economy, the need for more deployable, efficient, and resilient electrical infrastructure has never been more critical.
Heron Power is building cutting-edge power electronics for the 21st-century grid. We aim to unlock faster growth of the electricity sector with scalable, innovative, and less costly hardware solutions, accelerating the electrification of everything.
If this sounds like your kind of adventure, let us know by reaching out or applying at heronpower.com!
Max Reisner retweeted
Today, I’m excited to launch the Advanced Manufacturing Company of America. We've raised $76M in initial funding from Caffeinated Capital, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, a16z, and others.
The best time to build this business is right now, but the real work began decades ago.
Max Reisner retweeted
⚙️ 🇺🇸 Introducing @laborup_usa: The AI-Powered Manufacturing Workforce Platform solving the skilled labor crisis across the U.S. Industrial Base.
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Max Reisner retweeted
I recently shipped my first feature at @joinformal: enabling VS Code remote development (and a whole host of other workflows) through the Formal Connector! 🎉
This was tricker than it sounds: it required forking an AWS library to fix *several concurrency bugs*.
Blog post 👇
Max Reisner retweeted
Traditional home care agencies enforce 4-6 hour minimums per visit which makes home care unaffordable for most (>$70k per year)
There’s a joke in the industry: “I (caregiver) finish everything in the first hour then we sit and stare at each other for the next 5 hours.”
Caregivers should focus on the most human, personal care tasks such as changing, bathing, incontinence, etc. In reality, this takes 1-2 hours per visit
Human caregiver experts + robot generalists will make home care much more affordable/accessible for everyone
We’re building the new way for older and disabled adults to age in their home. We’re focused on the human side by putting caregivers at the center for the most personal tasks and excited to work with Optimus + other humanoid robots once ready.
And we’re hiring 😃 DMs are open
It's humbling to know that a snapchat filter of squidward I made in high school randomly blew up and is the highest impact thing I've ever done
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Max Reisner retweeted
New work on evaluating long form factuality 🎉.
Our method SAFE combines google search and LLM queries to extract and verify individual claims in responses.
Most excitingly, we show SAFE is cheaper💰 and more reliable ✅ than human annotators.
New @GoogleDeepMind+@Stanford paper! 📜
How can we benchmark long-form factuality in language models?
We show that LLMs can generate a large dataset and are better annotators than humans, and we use this to rank Gemini, GPT, Claude, and PaLM-2 models.
arxiv.org/abs/2403.18802
Max Reisner retweeted
Sharing a bit more about Reflect Orbital today. @4TristanS and I are developing a constellation of revolutionary satellites to sell sunlight to thousands of solar farms after dark.
We think sunlight is the new oil and space is ready to support energy infrastructure. This airborne test was the last piece needed before we launch above the atmosphere.
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Happy to do my part 🫡 — onwards!
What would you research with $100,000?
The O’Shaughnessy Fellowship program was launched in 2023 with a singular purpose: to support the ambitious individuals striving to build a better future for all.
The terms are simple:
One year and $100,000 to work on anything you want.
The O’Shaughnessy Grants program, also launched in 2023, provides applicants with the chance of $5,000 to do the same.
This year, our 12 Fellows and 5 Grantees have surpassed all expectations in a wide-range of domains.
Max Reisner is developing adaptable battery systems to simplify the process of incorporating renewable energy storage.
Dr William Zeng is researching how quantum technologies can benefit industry and civilization as a whole.
Rohan Taori is using his fellowship to work on two projects: a community-oriented LLM platform and a video-grounded AI model.
Dr. Sandro Luna is developing Maiv, an application that can measure biomarkers and vital signs from a mobile device.
Dr Alice Evans is writing The Great Gender Divergence, a global study of gender dynamics throughout history.
Mykhailo Marynenko is using AI and a custom-modified EEG headset to discover new ways for artists to utilize their visual cortex data.
And so, without further ado…
Let’s meet some of the O’Shaughnessy Fellows and Grantees of 2023 who are researching the future of human civilization.
Max Reisner retweeted
Can LLMs keep themselves up to date by reading the news?
Fine-tuning on news articles doesn't work.
Using meta-learning, we can reweight news article tokens so that fine-tuning works.
@NathanHu12 & @ericmitchellai presenting this work at #EMNLP2023 this week!
ALT An illustration of the approach: unsupervised pretraining happens on data up until some time, then unsupervised adaptation on news articles, then downstream task evaluation such as question answering.
Max Reisner retweeted
Eric is awesome - I learned so much from his mentorship throughout this project. And huge thanks to @chelseabfinn & @chrmanning for their support 🙏 .
The CaMeLS code is now available at github.com/zixia314/CaMeLS 🐪🐫.
My DMs + email are open if y'all wants to chat more 😁.
Max Reisner retweeted
thrilled to share I've joined the team at @foundersfund full-time
grateful to @joeykrug and the rest of the FF team for the warm welcome. more to come!
Max Reisner retweeted
The @wef explores new trends in AI and its surprising application in fish farming.
Learn how X’s ocean health moonshot Tidal and @Cognizant helping fish farmers be more productive and sustainable using breakthrough AI and machine perception tools.
weforum.org/agenda/2023/09/f…
Max Reisner retweeted
Meet the Atomic Semi Lab. We're doing a lot of building, follow us on YouTube to get more updates on what we're making --->
youtube.com/watch?v=9IkcA_nT…
