James Crook

ex-F1 and Tesla Aerodynamics expert

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

See you at #CAPEWEEK 2028

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A plane I designed and the @POTUS

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@rookisaacman doing what he does best

#Inspired

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Wrapping up an amazing few days at Up.summit

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@brad_rothenberg It’s impressive in person…! You might need a pretty powerful computer to open it

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Shadows

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A plane I designed

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Up.summit with old friends

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@bscholl Not bad eh? Will try and chat tomorrow

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

I’m exited to be attending #upsummit tomorrow! See you there!
@UPSummitVC

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

Try it for yourself and see what you can build, faster

[Navier AI @NavierAI]

Today, we’re excited to launch Prism into General Availability.

Prism is the AI platform for hardware engineering. Describe what you want to build, and agents design the CAD, run the simulations, and write the report.

Free to get started for Windows, Mac and Linux 🧵

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

You are welcome 🤗

[Dan Burkland @DBurkland]

The more I looked at the back of the Roadster, the more elements I noticed, and every one serves a purpose. I love that the rear tires are exposed and visible through the carbon fiber diffuser elements.

Great work by Tesla's aero team!

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

@PaganiAuto never disappoints

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Totally true

[Chris Tourtellotte @CTourtellotte]

LA needed another big demand driver.

And its here:

Physical AI.

San Francisco is the capital of AI. They build the models.

LA builds what the models run on: rockets, satellites, drones, defense, and autonomy.

11,000 aerospace jobs added in LA County in two years

NASA JPL, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Boeing, Raytheon all w/n 30 miles of each other.

$4B+ in LA-area defense tech venture funding, more than double the year before.

$1B Anduril campus coming to Long Beach, with 5,500 jobs

$4.4B up-front price for Culver City’s Silvus Technologies, which Motorola is acquiring

And it’s moving up the coast.

Playa Vista sits on the old Hughes Aircraft campus. Santa Monica and Culver City are producing hard tech and defense startups.

Even LA’s version of software AI is about the physical world.

Culver City is becoming the capital of AI filmmaking, with Promise next to the Sony lot, TrueShort moving in from Santa Monica, and the city council backing AI on the Lot.

Luma AI’s COO said it plainly: “Culver City is the future of AI + filmmaking.”

The Bay reigns supreme in AI.

LA is putting it into the physical world.

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

F1 levels :)

[Tesla @Tesla]

Roadster transforms in Track Mode

These aero features aren't just for looks: they provide the best passive downforce package of any road car (approaching F1 levels!) with wing actuation driven by the @Tesla_Optimus actuator system

[James Crook @JamesCrookAero]

I’m a fan @Tesla

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@BLKMDL3 I’m a fan

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Home office complete!

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@claudeai Excited for this