Ross

[Ross @rpoo]

High level goals for humanity:
1. Pass / derisk the great filters
2. Reach type 1 on Kardashev scale
3. Launch von Neumann probes to explore the galaxy

[Ross @rpoo]

Dual launch day

[Ross @rpoo]

time to tap the TAM of our future lightcone - this is still early earth

[Sholto Douglas @_sholtodouglas]

This was the most awe inspiring thing I’ve ever seen.
The future will be wildly better than today.

[Ross @rpoo]

@karpathy Excited to work with you again!

[Ross @rpoo]

Incredibly proud the xAI team's execution in bringing on an immense amount of compute so quickly & couldn't be more excited for Elon's vision of an abundant future w/ intelligence spreading to the stars

Over the past weeks I've had the pleasure of getting to know the team at Anthropic & share similar vision - I'm happy to announce I'm joining the team there to focus on compute

Onward towards building a future we're all excited about

[SpaceX Super Intelligence @SpaceXSI]

SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → https://t.co/nfDR9S822L

[Ross @rpoo]

touching some grass

[Ross @rpoo]

@GoogleResearch 🫡 for helping bring down ram prices

[Ross @rpoo]

@Oracle 400 vs 700+ fridges worth of power in the space of single fridge - the power and cooling infra for those is not the same

[Ross @rpoo]

with the exception of energy, chips, and labor - we are about to be limited by ambition

[Ross @rpoo]

The moon is a multiplier for colonizing the solar system
* Starship's propellant is ~80% oxygen / 20% methane
* Moon's crust is ~41% oxygen
* If you make oxidizer on/from the moon, the amount of mass you need to hall up from earth's gravity well goes down by a factor of ~5 to refuel
* If you can make some/all of your payload on the moon that's even less to hall up

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.

It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.

That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

[Ross @rpoo]

@KatieMiller Solar is only thing that scales

[Ross @rpoo]

Come help build this @ SpaceX

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

So, based on the SpaceX FCC filing, here's a SSO halo and multiple 30 degree LEO shells:

[Ross @rpoo]

To Understand the Universe, K2 or you're not even trying

[SpaceX Super Intelligence @SpaceXSI]

One Team 🚀
https://t.co/8RWbk5jQIQ

[Ross @rpoo]

@hongyuan_mei @hexiang @xai @grok @SpaceX Southwest group c ftw, so undesired that it’s always there for people that like to catch planes like they catch a bus

[Ross @rpoo]

@kipperrii dyson swarm**

[Ross @rpoo]

sometimes time slows because so much is happening, but looking back it will all be a flash - we're pulling some serious G's right now
* 57 years since we put a man on the moon
* 43 years since birth of the internet
* 8 years since invention of the transformer and first LLMs

[Ross @rpoo]

people think the singularity will be an actual moment - but on geological time scales this is the moment

this is what it feels like to live in an explosion

i wonder when this moment is looked back upon how many G's of acceleration we are all pulling right now

[Ross @rpoo]

Exciting long term roadmap at xAI, we’re just getting started - much work to do

[SpaceXAI Memphis @SpaceXAIMemphis]

A Grokin’ Year in Review:

👉 Expanded from 1 site to 5 sites in the midsouth.

👉450k+ GPUs active across sites with construction in progress to double that number by Q2 2026.

👉3000+ tradesmen and women from the region working 24/7 365 to build the largest supercomputers on earth faster than ever before.

👉Designed and deployed temporary infrastructure, to deliver several hundred megawatts of reliable power to Macrohard.

👉Installed 244,000+ miles of fiber and made QTY 1,304,608 individual connections.

👉Installed over 15 miles worth of cooling water piping.

👉It took 42 days from powering on the first production GB300 to scaling Phase 2 clusters to 100k+

[Ross @rpoo]

slowly, then all at once

[Ross @rpoo]

Like factorio, but real

[Ross @rpoo]

best team to join if you want to innovate on:
* efficiency: intelligence per watt/ mass
* scale: total harnessed energy/ matter

max(total integrated intelligence) from earth to the stars

[SemiAnalysis @SemiAnalysis_]

This is What Winning Looks Like From Space

Satellite imagery just caught xAI doing something no press release ever could: painting MACROHARD across the roof of its Colossus 2 datacenter in Tennessee. A building-sized wink at Microsoft, visible from orbit, impossible to ignore.

It reads like a joke, until you look at what’s underneath.

⚆ Colossus 2 isn’t a concept site or a slide in a deck. Power and cooling infrastructure are expanding in lockstep, with the campus pushing toward ~400 MW of active capacity in the near term. Gas turbines are arriving. Cooling towers are multiplying. The build is loud because the progress is real.

⚆ More importantly, this early ramp sits on a much larger foundation. xAI has secured a clear path towards large scale on-site generation, creating a credible trajectory toward more than 2 GW of IT capacity over time. This isn’t aspirational: it’s ordered hardware, permitted infrastructure, and steel on the ground.

The subtext is clear: while others debate timelines, this campus is already running. The roof says MACROHARD. The infrastructure says we’re ahead.

[Ross @rpoo]

important video to watch

It's not a matter of if but when humanity's time runs out - we can either:
* Self-destruct: nuclear war, pathogens or AI - history is full of fallen civilizations
* Stagnate: rapidly falling birth rates, nanny state, or the future shrinking into a world that's given up doing hard things or thinks of humanity as a virus to earth
* Die off from natural causes: there have been many natural mass extinctions, out of our control - asteroid impact, near earth supernovas, super volcano, eventually the increase in the sun's luminosity leads to a run away greenhouse effect and boiling of the oceans

life has been around for ~3.7B years, and has at most 1B years left - so roughly 80% the way done. if life on earth was a US male, it's about 59 years old out of 73 life expectancy, and space travel has only been a possibility in the last 39 seconds of that person's life

intelligent life only evolved once and took 3.7B years to do so, there may be great filters in our past (eukaryotic jump, etc) but we know there is at least one future filter between now and <1B years - can we get off this planet and last longer then 1B years?

we're the first instance of intelligent life we're aware of that is capable of escaping earth and the window is open now and we're not sure for how long, we cant take for granted that if the door closes it will reopen again

but this isn't all protecting downside - there are many many upsides to to reaching beyond earth..
* currently earth where we do everything - our home, our heavy industry, power generation, computation, and dump, out of necessity. It doesn't have to be that way, earth should our bio garden not a mine or factory if possible to move off earth
* space is where we can really scale - near limitless resources, energy, and space

the key pieces to getting there are:
1. cheap mass from earth to moon
2. setting up lunar base w/ power production, lunar regolith refining, and other manufacturing
3. building a mass driver to leverage a small fraction of the giant ball of feedstock that is the moon to expand beyond earth