We are excited to back @JeffDean, @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @quocleix, and @OriolVinyalsML as they build what’s next at Discovery Loop. They have spent decades pushing the frontiers of AI research and infrastructure from Google Brain to TensorFlow to TPUs.
The next great frontier for AI isn’t just improving productivity or replacing workers, it’s expanding humanity’s capacity to research and discover. This team can redefine how research in engineering and science is done. If successful, the impact won’t be measured in software features, or benchmarks but in new science to improve billions of lives. Those are the kinds of opportunities - bold, early and impactful - that Khosla Ventures gets excited about backing.
The impact could be as large as when we backed @sama at @openai in 2018. So excited to venture assist them on this project to build great impact.
https://t.co/FvHgQuK4vA
Today, we’re launching Alpamayo 2 Super, our frontier open reasoning model for autonomous vehicles.
Beyond seeing, Alpamayo understands and reasons through the complex world - thinks before it acts.
It’s a powerful backbone for robotaxis, trucks, shuttles, delivery vans, tractors and the long tail of mobile robots—billions of autonomous machines someday.
We’re releasing it for commercial use under OpenMDW-1.1 so teams can inspect it, fine-tune it and deploy it—open models advance safety and security.
The next wave of AI is robotics—and it starts with autonomous vehicles.
Great work, Alpamayo team!
https://t.co/2PYCCXWjZh
As a kid obsessed with physics I dreamed of a nuclear future
But since the 1980s the regulatory environment made this impossible
Also, as America outsourced its industrial base to China, our demand for power was stagnant
Now there's a double why now: the AI build out + reshoring of manufacturing has made America hungry for power again
Also, nuclear has become a bipartistan issue and the regulatory framework is rapidly improving
Enter @isaiah_p_taylor with @valaratomics
He is applying the Elon playbook to nuclear
Find an industry that America used to be good at, but lost its way on: rockets, tunneling, manufacturing cars
And then go build a simple unit, you can deliver quickly, to get on the exponential ramp in terms of real world feedback + early revenue + technological progress
Then claw your way back to the prior state of the art, before pushing far beyond our prior limits
I believe Isaiah is a generational founder and this is a generational company
@sequoia is ecstatic to partner with him and the Valar team
(Especially when we get to do it with our friends at Valar, Conviction, Atreides, and the early investors here)
And massive thank you to @PalmerLuckey for giving me a tip regarding how special this company is