Abhishek

Following AI's takeover of factories & manufacturing 🏭
Sharing what I learn weekly | Newsletter nerd in progress

[Abhishek @Kal_Aata]

Been off Twitter for a while. Coming back with a focus: AI in manufacturing. Robots, automation, factory floors. This stuff is moving fast, and I want to track it publicly. Starting today

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5. You can use LLMs to analyze your own scrap/defect data.

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5 things I've learned about AI in factories this month (that surprised me)

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4. A massive adoption gap exists. 77% of manufacturers with $10B+ revenue have scaled AI successfully, while mid-market adoption sits at just 2–4%. McKinsey's survey of 101 COOs found two-thirds are still stuck at the "exploration or targeted-implementation stage."

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McGrew made a $700M bet on AI in manufacturing. That's not a pilot. That's a conviction

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The liability question nobody's asking: if an AI system makes a bad call on a factory floor and someone gets hurt. Who's responsible? The company? The vendor? This is getting messy.

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@EkawuFreedom Yes

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AI is cutting B2B sales cycles by 60% in manufacturing. The stat sounds insane but the mechanism makes sense when you look at it.

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Foxconn's robots are now learning from watching human workers like an intern shadowing. This is happening at scale right now.

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@narendramodi No need to ask grok for translation 😭

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@ayushunleashed U can't trust AI blindly

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an engineer pasted semiconductor manufacturing code into ChatGPT to check for errors.

Startup Idea 💡

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What's more impressive to you right now: AI in hospitals or AI in factories? (I have a strong opinion on this)

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@ol_bowman Lol

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Every company says they're 'implementing AI.' Most of them are just running a pilot that's been 'almost ready' for 18 months.

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Didn't know what 'AI pilot purgatory' was last week. Now I can't stop thinking about it. It's when companies keep running small AI tests but never scale. Sound familiar?

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AI vision systems are being used in factories to catch defects.

But here's the thing - they're starting to over-correct and reject good parts. Nobody's talking about this.

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AI+Manufacturing

[Documenting Saylor @saylordocs]

The president is literally telling you where to invest:

• AI
• chips
• space
• crypto
• energy
• drones
• robotics
• defense
• healthcare
• rare earths
• manufacturing
• self-driving cars

Don't overcomplicate it.