Managing Partner @ontoventures Future abundance.

Australia
Joined October 2020
We can now understand the alien intelligence inside every plant. We’re listening and communicating directly with this ancient life form with endless potential applications…
1/ Today we’re unveiling Bombadil, @electricplantco's foundation model that reads the electrical signals of living plants and turns them into a continuous view of their physiology. Trained on 7M+ hours of plant electrical signal across 125+ species. That makes Bombadil the most species-diverse model of directly recorded electrical biosignals in existence. The animal equivalent would be one model that reads the brainwaves of blue whales, horseshoe crabs and fruit flies.
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Imagine what they think about us? We can’t hide…
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Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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a great mentor once told me that a startup is an external reflection of a founders inner world
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First guest to get absolutely hammered, start a fight with the barman and get kicked out of the bar? Tune in tomorrow to find out
Tomorrow on Cheeky Pint: @willob of Ulysses joins @sacca and me to discuss why seagrass is the ultimate carbon sink, scaling underwater hard tech (deep tech?), and selling sea drones to the US Navy.
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The Pi API is officially in beta! 🤖 Many people have already been using it to fine-tune π models for their robots -- below are a few We’re hoping to expand testing significantly. Let us know if you are interested! Blog: pi.website/blog/api-beta Signup: pi.website/waitlist
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Even a year ago I don't think I would have believed that PI models can run on such a huge range of different robots.
Announcing the beta release of the Pi API. We’ve partnered with companies across diverse industries to adapt our models to their robots and applications, from harvesting strawberries to assembling servers. Now we’re opening access to more teams.
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waymo is helping everyone understand what it’s like to grow up with an asian mom
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might as well work from the beach until we all get killed by AI
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
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Robotics control might just be solved as a side quest of improving LLMs - pretty exciting! And it’ll be a lot more general
GPT-6 Astra scored 95% on a robot control task, up from Fable 5.1's 40%, with 6.2x fewer output tokens at 2.3x lower cost. 🧵
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Get around this
We're hosting a research day in SF. You should come if you're building a data factory of some kind.
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Loving this idea of “perspicacity”. I’ve never encountered it before. Feels like a trait of those who are completely alive to the wonders around them.
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A sharpness of mind and insight—the ability to notice, understand, and judge things quickly and accurately, especially things that aren’t immediately obvious.
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Love this… I’m the kid-friendly reader
I wrote a kid-friendly summary of The Beginning of Infinity, by @DavidDeutschOxf. It's 199 simple words:
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Amazing!
This week, @ActinideInc became the first startup in history to enrich uranium, producing HALEU, the fuel for next-gen and small modular reactors. We did it using Endurance, a particle accelerator that we designed and built in Texas. Endurance usually produces enriched Yb-176, a precursor for cancer therapies worth roughly $30,000 per gram. After a bulk Yb-176 delivery on July 30, we reconfigured Endurance for uranium.
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This week, @ActinideInc became the first startup in history to enrich uranium, producing HALEU, the fuel for next-gen and small modular reactors. We did it using Endurance, a particle accelerator that we designed and built in Texas. Endurance usually produces enriched Yb-176, a precursor for cancer therapies worth roughly $30,000 per gram. After a bulk Yb-176 delivery on July 30, we reconfigured Endurance for uranium.
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This episode sparked a weird line of thinking about founders personified as musicians/bands. Off the cuff list here 1. Travis = AC/DC (TNT) - this song came on immediately after I listened to TK, felt perfect, and sparked this thing. (also, Rage Against the Machine?) 2. Jobs = Lennon (or Dylan?) 3. Elon = Nine Inch Nails (or Kanye?) 4. Jensen = Metallica 5. Bezos = Jay-Z (or Pink Floyd?) 6. Sam = Prince (or Radiohead/Thom Yorke) 7. Chesky = Springsteen (Pharrell?) 8. Jony Ive = Daft Punk 9. Zuck = Eminem 10. Dario = Nick Cave Senra has to be Dr Dre @davidsenra @travisk
“The lifestyle of  an entrepreneur  at its core is:  I can take more pain than the other guy, and I'll prove it.” “ There's a zen that can happen when a warrior has fought for a long time. You can get used to it.” “ You almost start accepting it. Like, something bad happens and you don't even get mad.” “ There are benefits.  But you need to make sure you don't get so used to it that it doesn't even bother you. You can get so zen, you're unbothered.” “ There's something special about the extra fierceness of being bothered, being upset about something that is wrong.” — @travisk
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