building and investing in early stage deep tech
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aabid retweeted
Most of America's infrastructure was built in a single generation — and designed to last fifty years. That was seventy years ago.
There has never been more to build and rebuild, and fewer surveyors every year to map what's already there.
Today we’re announcing our $34M Series A to bring civil engineering into the AI era, co-led by @firstround and @BessemerVP, with participation from @Prudence_VC and @QuietCapital.
Our AI CAD software turns 3D scans of roads, utilities and construction sites into draft drawings for surveyors and engineers at centimeter accuracy. Expanding the world’s capacity to build and maintain the infrastructure people depend on.
aabid retweeted
I fixed this graph by A16Z.
One Trillion spent on AI Capex in 2026, the story isn't in chips alone.
For every $100 flowing into the supply chain
- $2.5 to castings
- $1 to forgings
- $3.6 to sheet metal parts
- $2 to Plastic
- $2.4 to CNC machining
without these manufacturing technologies, the rest isn't even possible.
Where does money invested into the AI buildout actually go?
For every $100 flowing into the supply chain:
- $50 to chips
- $20 to power
- $15 to networking
- $15 to cooling, buildings, and land
More charts in State of Markets II: a16z.news/p/state-of-markets…
aabid retweeted
Yann LeCun (Chief AI Scientist, Meta, @ylecun), @PimDeWitte (CEO, General Intuition), and Aude Durand (Kyutai, @aude_drn), talk about world models, embodied agents, Yann's new company, and the limitations of LLMs
0:00 - Introduction to World Models
5:00 - Why World Models, Intuition & Introducing Yann's new company
10:00 - Architectures + Merging Language & Interaction Data towards General Agents
20:00 - Open Source, Sovereign AI & @kyutai_labs Partnership
Keynote for #aiPULSE2025 at Station F in Paris 🇫🇷
aabid retweeted
Today, Apex turns 3 years old... and we announce our $200M Series D financing, led by @interlagoscap with participation from @stepstonegroup, @8vc, @a16z, @p72vc, @xyz_vc, @overmatchvc, @GSBackers, and more. This round boosts Apex's valuation over $1B, enabling us to deliver major constellation programs for our customers.
Interlagos is no stranger to Apex-- Interlagos founder Achal Upadhyaya helped CEO Ian Cinnamon and CTO @mxbenassi start Apex in the early days, and now Interlagos cofounder Tom Ochinero is joining Apex's board.
aabid retweeted
Sygaldry is thrilled to be spotlighted by @Inc! Learn more below about CEO and co-founder @ChadRigetti and Sygaldry's novel approach to applying quantum computing to AI.
inc.com/claire-cameron/this-…
aabid retweeted
JUST IN: James Webb Telescope discovers "strongest evidence to date" of life beyond Earth.
Planet K2-18b shows signs of atmospheric chemicals that, on Earth, are primarily produced by life
6% chance aliens are confirmed this year.
aabid retweeted
The Missile Defense Agency just dropped a draft solicitation for a $151B multi-award IDIQ for a multi-domain missile defense system. (Think Golden Dome architecture.) Primes & startups onboarded to the vehicle will fight for contract $$ on individual task orders.
aabid retweeted
Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and gravely wounded others. I pray for the victims, Saad Issa Kostandi Salameh, Foumia Issa Latif Ayyad, Najwa Ibrahim Latif Abu Daoud, and I am particularly close to their families and to all the parishioners.
aabid retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Detailed list of all 44 people in Meta's Superintelligence team.
— 50% from China
— 75% have PhDs, 70% Researchers
— 40% from OpenAI, 20% DeepMind, 15% Scale
— 20% L8+ level
— 75% 1st gen immigrants
Each of these people are likely getting paid $10-$100M/yr.
aabid retweeted
Ethereum is making HISTORY:
We are currently witnessing one of the LARGEST short squeezes in crypto history.
Ethereum has added +$150 BILLION in market cap since July 1st, days after net SHORT exposure hit record highs.
What's happening? Let us explain.
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aabid retweeted
Excited to launch @chariotdefense today, live on stage at @reindsummit ! After constantly battling power challenges while fielding advanced sensors and countermeasures at Anduril, and seeing the massive leap in technology happening at Archer and across the eVTOL industry, I knew I had to start Chariot to transform how we deliver power to the edge with a modern high-voltage architecture.
We've already fielded systems across multiple large-scale DOD exercises, and are growing rapidly to meet the demand. We're hiring Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Software Engineers - reach out if you're ready to Lead the Charge.
Tune in to the Reindustrialize live stream at 9:10am PT / 12:10pm ET, check out our website, and read our feature in Axios (in the comments) to learn more.
aabid retweeted
We have three big @pipedream_labs announcements today. The 3rd is the most ambitious project we've ever attempted.
Here’s a quick summary thread:
aabid retweeted
History shows us that having too much debt during an economic downturn leads to a classic, self-reinforcing cycle where:
1) The empire can no longer borrow the money to repay its debts
2) It prints a lot of new money, which devalues the currency and raises inflation
3) Living standards decline, leading to the rise of political extremism
4) Turbulent economic conditions undermine productivity and there is conflict about how to divide the shrinking resources
5) Populist leaders emerge pledging to take control and bring about order
#principles #raydalio #history #debt
aabid retweeted
xAI: "We doubled our compute to 200,000 GPUs at an unprecedented rate, with a roadmap to 1 million GPUs. Progress in AI is driven by compute and no one has come close to building at this magnitude and speed."
