AutoScientist Automates Full Model Training Loop for All
Very cool release. AutoScientist self-improves and automates the full research loop behind model training and alignment. Model training + RL are powerful but have been hard to get right outside frontier labs. This is a step towards letting anyone build models for their task.
Meetings Now Build Their Own Tools Automatically
We’ve built a tool called Genie that turns meetings into software. If someone on the team says “I wish we had a tool for X” during a meeting, Genie automatically builds it. How it works: • analyzes granola meeting transcripts • creates Linear tickets •...
Ford Isn't a Horse Company, Even If Horses Vanish
"If all horse and buggy companies are dead, isn't Ford dead? They're a mechanical horse company with a bunch of people making mechanical horses."
ARIA Partnership Fuels Exponential UK Startup Growth
We wanted to share our perspective following today’s article on ARIA in The Guardian. We are highly optimistic about the future of innovation in the UK and hope to play a meaningful role in supporting it, in partnership with ARIA. For...
FDA Proposes AI-Driven Real-Time Trials, Ending Phase Gaps
No more Phase 1, 2, or 3 in clinical trials? The FDA is proposing using AI to get trial data in real-time from EHRs and giving trial design feedback based on what it sees. No more batch processing could eliminate the wait...
America First Shifts to Permit Full Foreign Broadcast Ownership
America First now means changing the rules to sell American broadcast infrastructure to foreign investors.
Autonomous Wind‑Powered Vessels Build Resilient Shipping Mesh
Starlink telemetry. Wingsail power. Autonomous. Straight of Hormuz, Suez Canal, Port of LA -- ocean shipping is brittle. Clippership solves this with autonomous, wind powered cargo vessels. It's packet switching for ocean freight and enables a resilient mesh shipping network. https://t.co/5jh5nc9sSW
AaloAtomics: Nuclear’s Henry Ford, a Generational Leap
Doing for nuclear what Henry Ford did for automobiles. @AaloAtomics is going to be a generational company. https://t.co/2F9k9eqqSu
AI Labs Rush Bio Data Deals to Boost Models
Behind the scenes, all the frontier AI labs are inking partnerships with bio startups to get access to their data to improve model performance on bio tasks. Basically every startup that has a legit high throughput platform has been approached about...
AI Lab Aims to Automate Its Own Creation
A new AI lab built from the ground up around automated research. Led by the legend Jerry Tworek, former VP of Research at OpenAI, where he led the development of reasoning models. Absolutely incredible founding team. Heavy hitters out of OAI,...
Ron Conway’s Relentless Founder Support Sets the Standard
No better display of who @RonConway is than this: "While I will be stepping back from some of my usual activities, I will continue to support SV Angel founders, who I love with a passion." Even during his own struggles, he still...
Lithium Extraction Scales 350M× in 2.5 Years
This is what engineering progress looks like. @ElectroflowTech has scaled up their lithium extraction tech over 350M× since we backed them. In 2.5 years. First photo is the founders and the initial cell. Second shows the first 100K× scale up. Last ones...
Direct Action Forces Immediate Policy Change
When supply chains shut down in 2021, @typesfast rented a boat, hit the water, and tweeted what he saw in the Port of LA. The mayor changed the law that same day. On Progress, we get into tariffs, Black Death, AI...
Frontier AI Self‑Improves Safety, Paving Path to Future
Using frontier AI to autonomously improve safety and alignment capabilities is one of the best paths to a bright future.
NASA Releases Moon Base Guide for Permanent Off‑world Living
NASA just quietly published something incredible. A map of how we build a permanent human presence off Earth. It’s called the Moon Base User’s Guide. Here's what's in it! 🧵 https://t.co/oMEKKo5O8Q