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1. @ReBuildMFG raises $2.1B led by @generalcatalyst + JPMorgan to scale US manufacturing

2. @lumaril exits stealth: $66M Series A at $400M, led by @eladgil w/ @LuxCapital. AI that tunes factory output in real time

3. @anduriltech x @Qualcomm unveil BlueChip, a US-built rugged laptop. @PalmerLuckey is aiming for 100% American parts

4. American Advanced Materials: $12.5M seed to make titanium sponge in the US

5. Helicon: $16.5M seed for automated carbon fiber parts in Torrance, CA

6. @Saab soft-opens its $115M munitions plant in Grayling, Michigan

7. @KratosDefense adds a giant metal 3D printer for hypersonics in Indiana

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Reindustrialization roundup 🏭🇺🇸🧵

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@Object_Zero_ @chamath Binding constraint

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@AutismCapital @grok is this just a stunt, will any of the sold roadsters have this tech or any flying ability

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@aslater Whenever i tried it didn’t have all the flights have u fixed that

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Nature walk

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@dnnskr91 @rassulred @sama @aralabsnet @OpenAI 😭

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@__d_1ggin Did u release it

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@michaelsikand @grok dissect current market sentiment on SONY, GTA 6 catalyst and risks

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@amitisinvesting @grok How does it not violate the first and fifth amendment

[Sanja Fidler @FidlerSanja]

I’m incredibly excited to introduce @VeedaAI , which I co-founded with my incredible longtime collaborators @ZGojcic and @HuanLing6 .

We started Veeda because we believe robotics will reshape the world—changing how we move people and goods, how we manufacture and build, and how we operate in the physical world.

We also firmly believe that the scaling moment for Physical AI will come from robots learning through interaction with the world.

Just like humans learn from interaction with their environments by trying, failing and trying again, until we succeed. And just like the capabilities of LLMs were truly unlocked when they started training in interactive environments and not only on vast amounts of internet text.

For Physical AI, the central challenge is making this kind of interactive learning possible at scale. The real world is simply not a practical training ground for robots to learn through trial and error. It is unsafe, expensive, and time-consuming. To scale interactive learning, robots will need to learn in simulated reality.

At Veeda, our sole mission is to build simulated reality for Physical AI. Our conviction is that this will become the critical infrastructure layer for all areas of robotics.

As envisioned in pop culture, this means building “the Matrix” for Physical AI, where, through a virtual embodiment, robot intelligence can interact with an entirely virtual world in a million possible ways, learning from its own mistakes.

We believe that World Models are the foundational technology that can make this possible. These generative models learn from massive amounts of sensor and physical-world data to reach the quality, diversity, and physical realism of the simulated reality that robots require.

I could not be more excited to take on this challenge and build this transformative technology alongside an extraordinary team of engineers and researchers who have spent years working on some of the hardest problems across simulation, generative AI, 3D, robotics, and embodied intelligence.

Together with our investors at @khoslaventures and @radicalvcfund , we intend to push the frontier of this technology and build the foundational infrastructure for interactive robotics learning and evaluation at scale.

Come build this future with us.

And to roboticists, help us understand what you need, we’re building this for you.

https://t.co/76cpYJNaR7

[Ben Horne 🇺🇸 @benjamin_horne]

> be Zuck
> get weapons-grade FOMO from release of ChatGPT
> desperately join AI race and overpay to acquihire Asian math whiz/hype beast
> spend billions and billions on CapEx
> fail to catch up to OAI/Anthropic
> join X after years of being away
> notice that the masses and a lot of Big Accounts on X are getting lots of love for extolling the virtues/importance of open weight models/allowing Chinese models, and warning against concentration in the hands of a few
> realize that you were going to lose the AI race anyway, so you might as well become a big, loud, proponent of open models because (a) it’s the only card you have left to play and (b) it will give you a reputational/image boost by positioning yourself on the side of “the people” etc etc
> publish a manifesto about all this, and loudly promote it so everyone knows your “based and open weights-pilled”
> like clockwork, everyone falls for it and praises you for being a “hero of open source” when in reality the only reason you’re doing all this is because it was the only move you had available to you, and it’s what benefits you the most strategically in this moment.

In another world where you had actually managed to catch up with OAI/Anthropic, you would have totally been saying the exact *opposite* of everything in your manifesto, and continued to be a defender/practitioner of closed source/regulatory capture that you’ve been every single day of your life up until now.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@sama We start flying them next year. Maybe you can come see them if your parole officer approves.

After stealing an open source AI charity, you then stole all of Apple’s phone technology! Wow.

What do you plan for an encore? That’s tough to beat.

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@DroneUltimatum @yadinsoffer @traysartech @StevenSimoni Amazing episode! Just sent you a linkedin invite/email. Let's chat about defense tech, keep killing it! - Ben Gruen

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@KayvonJafar i know so annoying - i have found v0 from vercel to be really good for sites.

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@rawsalerts Yesss

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@Jason I’m in

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The best part of smoking weed is when you get schizophrenia