Another year, another #CES! Amazing annual HH with 250+ of our closest founders, investors, and friends. Thankful to be a part of this #hardtech syndicate 👇 Hosts: UNION Conductive Ventures catapult G2 Venture Partners Wen H. Hsieh, Ph.D. Tyche Partners Silicon Valley Bank

Love #DeepTech, been 🧐 Brayton Williams ⏻ Adam Draper ⏻ 's tweets re SciFi Tech 🚀☄️ or ours re "From Lab to Launch" 🤖🌎⚡️, got a San Mateo UNION <> Boost VC collab 🤝on tap Feb 27. DM us for details.

The world is full of founders with expertise that could be tapped into something new and great. Our hope is that our Request for Startups (RFS) inspires some of those people to do so — or if they’re already building, to apply to YC. ycombinator.com/blog/ycs-lates…

Kudos to the YC group partners! We want abundance in the digital and physical worlds

wtaf is going on today

Last month we demonstrated Figure 01 making coffee only using neural networks This is a fully learned, end-to-end visuomotor policy mapping onboard images to low level actions at 200hz Next up: excited to push the boundaries on AI learning with OpenAI

This is an astute articulation of Google's challenges vs. OpenAI, and it also works as advice to startups/investors generally: "I'll close this with the phrase that I think captures [Mark's] posture: Our missed opportunities will cost us more than our mistakes"

I thought Dune 2 was the best movie of 2024 until I watched this masterpiece (sound on).

With OpenAI, Figure 01 can now have full conversations with people -OpenAI models provide high-level visual and language intelligence -Figure neural networks deliver fast, low-level, dexterous robot actions Everything in this video is a neural network:

Happy Wednesday! Learn what is happening at the seed stage on samir kaji 🎙️ Venture Unlocked featuring Nate Williams, Jenny Fielding, & ☔🔥☔ 👇👇 👂▶️ : open.substack.com/pub/ventureunl…

# scheduling workloads to run on humans Some computational workloads in human organizations are best "run on a CPU": take one single, highly competent person and assign them a task to complete in a single-threaded fashion, without synchronization. Usually the best fit when

This is 100% solid advice by Alex Iskold | 2048.vc and we give the same UNION BUT noting what I'm seeing as very very strong bias against slow build seedcos from downstream Series A investors (want the "clock speed" high, learn faster). Many paradoxes in Life and VC so YMMV.

The world UNION works way way way better when the fab Annie Le is here! Glad to have the Boss back from Mat leave 🍼 and joining the fun! chriskim Sri Rao

These are the minimum lead times for power prospective data centers are being given by utilities. MINIMUM Thanks for this Kevin Stevens 🔋⚡️

The Rise of the “Software Creator”

Why don't we have Amazon scale gigafactory warehouses full of CNC machines? •Don't do anything fancy. •Don't invent any new technology. •Don't over automate. •Don't start with 5 axis aerospace, do 2 and 3 axis commodity level parts. •Just execute insanely well on the

Giant balloons floating above Colorado’s wildfires could help to predict future blazes CNN International CNN Nell Lewis Chapman University NASA Earth Science Technology Office NASA JPL edition.cnn.com/weather/colora…