Ryan Bethencourt

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Founder/CEO Wild Earth; biotech entrepreneur & investor

AI Poised to Spark Trillion‑dollar Biotech Revolution
SocialMay 7, 2026

AI Poised to Spark Trillion‑dollar Biotech Revolution

Last day @synbiobeta and had a fascinating discussion with my friend @andrewhessel about the SynBio space. His insight was that SynBio and Biotech feels very much like the AI space pre LLM acceleration. AI will accelerate Biotech and Genetic Agency. Today's biotech...

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AI End‑to‑End Models Will Accelerate BioPharma Innovation
SocialMay 6, 2026

AI End‑to‑End Models Will Accelerate BioPharma Innovation

AI + Biopharma @synbiobeta Fireside w/ @AnthropicAI , Mithrl, & @obviousvc Insights: - Anthropic aren't going to make their own science models, they'll be training the same base model everyone uses - Base Science models already well served - Anthropic wants to help...

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Crypto Landscape Shifts: SOL Leads, ZCash Revives, Bittensor
SocialMay 6, 2026

Crypto Landscape Shifts: SOL Leads, ZCash Revives, Bittensor

We're starting to see the early signs of what Crypto's shifting order will look like: SOL dominates tokenization & stable coins ZCash is reclaiming its Cypherpunk 👑 Bittensor is still the Bitcoin of AI, even after a subnet rug pull & Clarity is...

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Biotech Poised to Create Universal Anti‑venom Breakthrough
SocialMay 5, 2026

Biotech Poised to Create Universal Anti‑venom Breakthrough

Day 1 @SynBioBeta first panel on building a universal anti-venom "We haven't innovated in 125yrs, since injecting horses with venom worked okay" We're now on the cusp of a universal anti-venom thanks to modern biotech https://t.co/wNbPwXjHPi

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Solana’s Largest L1 Still Roaring Back
SocialMay 4, 2026

Solana’s Largest L1 Still Roaring Back

SOL is the glass eaters chain. It's the largest L1 for all transactions and yet everyone seems to think it's dead. Solana OGs have been here before, SOL always comes roaring back. UP.

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AI Model Saturation Triggers Physical‑World Singularity Leap
SocialMay 1, 2026

AI Model Saturation Triggers Physical‑World Singularity Leap

The AI model space for everything in the physical and biological sciences is about to get saturated. What comes next is applying this acceleration to everything in the physical world. Step 2 of the Singularity is arriving.

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Musk's SpaceX Aims to Power Mars with 100 TW Compute
SocialApr 30, 2026

Musk's SpaceX Aims to Power Mars with 100 TW Compute

I'm loving Musk's new pay deal at SpaceX, in addition to building a $7.5T company, colonizing Mars with 1m people, he also has to put 100 terrawatts of compute into space. To put that into perspective, the US grid is a...

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Token‑burn Bragging Is the New Vanity Metric
SocialApr 28, 2026

Token‑burn Bragging Is the New Vanity Metric

Founders bragging about how many tokens they burn is just a new vanity metric. Like eyeballs back in 2000 👀

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Science Labs Lag AI Adoption, Upskilling Opportunity Awaits
SocialApr 23, 2026

Science Labs Lag AI Adoption, Upskilling Opportunity Awaits

Much of Science is still untouched by AI (I know it sounds unbelievable) but X doesn't reflect the vast majority of labs. The same reluctance and challenges of AI adoption in Enterprise exists all across the Sciences. The opportunity of upskilling the...

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Redefine the Thing, Create a Whole New Category
SocialApr 21, 2026

Redefine the Thing, Create a Whole New Category

Redefining what a thing is can create an entirely new category of thing. In 1945, Soviet schoolchildren gifted the US Ambassador a wooden Great Seal. It hung in his Moscow office for 7 years. It contained a listening device with no battery,...

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AI Model Evolution Surpasses LLMs in Cambrian Explosion
SocialApr 21, 2026

AI Model Evolution Surpasses LLMs in Cambrian Explosion

We're seeing a massive Cambrian explosion of AI model designs and architectures. In the same way when I started building agents a year + ago, the evolution of models is even more profound. Looking under the hood, MANY new models aren't LLMs,...

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LLMs Beat JEPA World Models on Sparse Biological Data
SocialApr 21, 2026

LLMs Beat JEPA World Models on Sparse Biological Data

Sci-JEPA's and Biology: I'm testing & training LeCunn style JEPA's @SciRouterAI vs more classical Dual encoder LLMs (small 35k data sets) for novel molecule targets for disease quick scans. What's interesting is that even though world models have, in theory, powerful...

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Visualize AI Model Mechanics with Anthropic’s Guide
SocialApr 21, 2026

Visualize AI Model Mechanics with Anthropic’s Guide

If you want to visualize how AI models work, like I wanted to, check out this great article by Anthropic. https://t.co/SOp6bf146J

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Regulatory Hurdles, Not Tech, Slow Biotech Breakthroughs
SocialApr 21, 2026

Regulatory Hurdles, Not Tech, Slow Biotech Breakthroughs

"We need 6 'AlphaFold' moments to compress the drug delivery timeline from 10yrs to a few months" -Demis Yes and the FDA will still take 10yrs to approve it. Safetyism has throttled biotech unnecessarily and the only way to accelerate is to...

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