Nick Burtner

world building

[Nick Burtner @nickburtner]

@SHUBH17_ @VenrexVC @thegp @VirtueVC @caffeinatedcap @arrayvc @GreatPointVC @LiveRamp @haystackvc @CapitalAlso @LifeXvc Congrats!!

[Shubh Sinha @SHUBH17_]

🎉I’m excited to announce our $18M Series A, with participation from @VenrexVC, @thegp , @VirtueVC , @caffeinatedcap , @arrayvc, @GreatPointVC , @LiveRamp, @haystackvc, @CapitalAlso, @LifeXvc , Circle & Co, and WS Investments.

The first generation of AI was built on public, human-curated data. The next will be built on real-world data. The datasets carrying real human behavior are what now separate one AI system from another. AI companies want them. The companies that hold them want to put them to work. The barrier has always been risk.

We solved that risk in healthcare, one of the most regulated data environments there is. Today we bring it to the rest of the economy.

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸

El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it.

Joining @tbpn later today to share more.

If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now!

Link to Axios article in thread.

[Varunram Ganesh @varunram]

Something about status signaling with "engineers from openai, anthropic" for a simple football game is just weird, is there any city where people mention attendees' employers in the party invite

[Sam D'Amico @sdamico]

hyperstitioning the "electric stack" as a venture category and "american shenzhen" as the goal

[shreeda @freeshreeda]

So I helped build and launch a magazine from scratch...

The first issue of Commenda Media is out. It's a print+digital magazine about global free markets and stewarding economic freedom.

I commissioned and edited all of it—a dream come true. Grateful @CommendaHQ and @spenceraviav entrusted me.

I hope you'll like it.

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

Heavy-duty gas turbines are among the most complex products in the world. Only a handful of firms control the supply chains with Chinese competitors lagging years behind.

They are an opportunity for live players in data centers.

Read the new @bismarckanlys Brief (link below):

[sudarshan @ItzSuds]

Couldn’t have paid an army of publicists to come up with a crazier opener than this.

Was fun doing my first full length podcast in 4 years.

Separately, this doubles as my official announcement for SF1 Fund I. $10m to back founders at the earliest stage. We’re in business!

[Adam Shuaib @adamshuaib]

Extraordinary people will often vanish from everyday life when a hard problem emerges.

Across thousands of meetings, we found that geniuses have periods of normality where meetings are attended and emails are answered, but when a big challenge appears the person goes totally dark.

Andrew Wiles disappeared into his attic for seven years to prove Fermat's Last Theorem, and Newton went home to a Linconshire farm during the plague, saw nobody for 18 months and came back with the foundations of gravity.

Breakthroughs need a level of isolation you only get when everything else is shut out, and most bosses/managers today make this impossible with the expectation that you'll respond to any email by EoD.

[Sebastian Caliri @SebastianCaliri]

I just tested my hand in a mini version of this scanner. Images that are higher quality than MRI, whole body captured in <1 minute, virtually free to run. This is going to change medicine.

Things get even crazier when you consider the possibility of using the same tank to focus ultrasound to ablate tissue, stimulate nerves, etc.

The FDA is not in the slightest ready for this. People will also complain about incidental findings but they are wrong and don’t understand how quickly software can improve and how inexpensive a time series of scans will be to generate.

[Hassaan Raza @hassaanraza]

Last week Apple previewed the future of Siri. In 1987 though, Apple showcased a far more advanced AI assistant that would change how we use our computers entirely. It could see you, control your computer, and even looked and sounded human. They called it Knowledge Navigator.

For nearly 40 years it remained science fiction. This past week at @tavus we finally brought it to life with the help from our friends at @cerebras.

Meet Dom:

[Nick Burtner @nickburtner]

@jacksondenka PUT ME IN

[jackson @jacksondenka]

Azura mobile support is now live.

This has been our most requested update since the February overhaul, and we're excited to finally bring Azura wherever you trade.

We're just getting started. More to come.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity

[Samo Burja @SamoBurja]

I believe in this publication and concept. I will do everything I can to get it both fully funded and hire full time editors it deserves.

If you like my thinking, the articles this publication publishes, or the community of thinkers and doers it brings together please donate or subscribe.

[Nick Burtner @nickburtner]

@radbackwards 💀

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Aging is arguably the root cause of most major diseases (loss of function in our cells). Four years ago, we made a bet that aging was treatable, and NewLimit was born.

NewLimit now has a prototype drug that reverses the age of some human cells (restores function they had when they were younger), and a clinical trial scheduled for next year (with more drug candidates in the pipeline).

Grateful to Founders Fund, Thrive, Greenoaks, and the rest of the investors for this latest round. @jacobkimmel and the team are just getting started.

[Avelum @novusolus]

"The Sun has entered my veins and transformed everything into gold"

[Nick Burtner @nickburtner]

@beffjezos @Grimezsz @schisofrenia Depeche mode heard

[Drafted @DraftedAI]

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Most people spend their lives living in buildings they had little influence over.

We believe AI can help change that.

Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with https://t.co/M3bUUqREhP

Today, we're excited to share that we've raised a $16M Seed led by Buckley Ventures to continue building multimodal generative models for residential architecture and spatial design.

Here's a glimpse of what we're building: