Electric Plant

We are a plant intelligence company.

[Holly Peck @hollympeck]

@justinmast @electricplantco Choosing to reinterpret the phrase “forest bathing” as basking in the forest’s electromagnetic signals

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

@TheRealDanSaedi @justinmast it can. big unlock!

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

Nice share from @TheRundownAI

[The Rundown AI @TheRundownAI]

The Electric Plant Co. built an AI that reads a plant’s electrical signals to tell how it’s doing, minute by minute.

Its Bombadil model was trained on over 7M hours of data from 125+ species, and can spot plant stress days before it actually shows in the leaves.

Co-founder @justinmast says farming and forestry are "the largest use of fresh water on Earth," yet nearly all of it is "managed from the outside in."

"We need planetary gardeners."

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

@doclrogers @justinmast So much to learn! Thanks
@doclrogers

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

Challenge accepted. We built it.
https://t.co/22Iom4Lf8q

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

When you go into a "tech interview" and end up talking plant physiology with someone who's got a PhD in landscape ecology and used stable isotope analysis of tree rings to study oak woodlands in California... that's a good day.

Great conversation @tdechant @TechCrunch

https://t.co/Cj84hZDmFb

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

@justinmast nice feature in @TechCrunch
https://t.co/pzpaCFJYKg

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
https://t.co/QRHY8OWJkP

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

@justinmast 4/ We're building a world where every plant is understood and cared for on its own terms. Bombadil is where it begins.

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

3/ And we're just getting started. Since Bombadil's first training run, our data corpus has grown to 7 million hours, which is more than the EEG foundation model that inspired our approach. It's the same playbook that gave us today's language models: the more data a foundation model learns from, the more it can understand.

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

11/ Full paper: https://t.co/GuLwj9t45k

Essay: https://t.co/Z1dTUNBpGq

The representation is shared. The data keeps coming. The next heads are readouts we haven’t built yet.

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

https://t.co/6b0v6AvhSF

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

1/ Today we’re unveiling Bombadil, @electricplantco's foundation model that reads the electrical signals of living plants and turns them into a continuous view of their physiology.

Trained on 7M+ hours of plant electrical signal across 125+ species. That makes Bombadil the most species-diverse model of directly recorded electrical biosignals in existence. The animal equivalent would be one model that reads the brainwaves of blue whales, horseshoe crabs and fruit flies.

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

Big visions have deep roots.

We're transforming the way we live with nature by unlocking the vast intelligence currently hidden in the plant kingdom. @electricplantco is the operating system for gardening and a planetary scale.

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

THERE IS NO FUTURE WE CAN LOOK FORWARD TO WHERE PLANTS AREN'T THRIVING ALONGSIDE PEOPLE

[Justin Mast @justinmast]

Plants don't have brains or nerves, but they produce and use electrical signals with a lot of similarity to our nervous systems.

Get a neuroengineer's take on plant electrical communication in my cofounder @LeevonKraus's paper: https://t.co/6LIErAsAFy

[Electric Plant @electricplantco]

Check out our cofounder @justinmast's vision for Electric Plant here: https://t.co/Ksuqe9MFtp