My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
@TMTLongShort Capability running ahead of schedule, sure. But where’s the end demand from outside the AI complex? Build’s debt-funded, some of it vendor paper, on 5y depreciation for hardware that won’t last five years. Will cash show up before the paper comes due?
Lee Kuan Yew explained this…
"In multicultural societies you don't vote in accordance with economic or social interests. You vote in accordance with your race and religion."
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.
SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.
Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.
SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.
Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.
The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.
Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.
Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.
Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.
Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.
We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.
The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
The security forces in Iran threw acid on Marziyeh for not covering her hijab “properly”.
And this one? The grandniece of Qasem Soleimani the slain IRGC commander, in a luxury life in America, without hijab.
Yes for us ordinary women in Iran: show our hair, lose our face, beaten by morality police, arrested, blacklisted, and even get killed like Mahsa, Jina Amini.
Outside Iran: be connected to the regime, enjoy your freedom.
So let me get this straight. You support the Khamanei regime that killed 38,000+ protesters and maimed hundreds of thousands more. A regime that has repeatedly called for Death to America and has killed thousands of our servicemen and citizens. One that has taken away women’s rights and freedoms for the Iranian people.
And then you call our efforts to destroy the evildoers a catastrophic escalation.
You also support those who attack our police force. You take the side of the criminals rather than the victims of violent actors in our city.
How is it that you can’t differentiate between good and evil?
Why is this so hard for you?
A 15-year-old girl immigrates to New Jersey from China. Doesn’t speak English. Her parents, both educated engineers back in Chengdu, are now working as cashiers and restaurant cooks. She gets a job washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant to help the family survive.
She gets into Princeton on a full scholarship. Her reaction is so disbelieving she asks two different advisors to verify the acceptance letter is real. Then her mom gets sick, so the family opens a dry cleaning shop in Parsippany. Every weekend for seven years, Fei-Fei Li leaves Princeton’s physics department to run the register, handle inspections, talk to customers, manage billing. Monday through Friday: quantum mechanics problem sets. Saturday and Sunday: sorting other people’s laundry. She later called herself the “CEO” of the dry cleaning business. She kept running it remotely through half of her PhD at Caltech.
In 2007, she proposed building an image dataset so massive her own mentor told her she’d taken the idea “way too far.” Pre-ImageNet, the entire AI field was working with datasets containing a few hundred images. She built one with 15 million. Most researchers at the time believed algorithms were the bottleneck. She bet on data when nobody else would.
By 2012, a team ran a neural network on that dataset and halved the existing error rate overnight. AlexNet on ImageNet became the moment the deep learning era started. Every computer vision product shipping today traces its lineage back to that dataset.
Fast forward to 2024. She starts World Labs. Four months in, $230 million raise, $1 billion valuation. Today, $1 billion more at roughly $5 billion.
The bet investors are making: that the woman who gave AI its eyes with 2D image recognition is about to give it spatial awareness of the 3D physical world. Her new model, Marble, generates persistent 3D environments from text or images. Unlike video generators that fake depth frame by frame, Marble creates actual geometric space where objects stay where you left them.
The investor list tells you everything. AMD and NVIDIA both wrote checks. When the two biggest competing chipmakers both fund the same startup, they’re telling you this workload is coming whether their competitor funds it or not. Autodesk put in $200 million and signed on as strategic advisor, which means they see spatial AI integrating directly into CAD and design workflows within 18 months.
From dry cleaner to ImageNet to a $5 billion spatial intelligence company. Fei-Fei Li has now placed two bets that the rest of the field thought were too early and too big. The first one created modern computer vision. The second one is trying to give machines the ability to understand physics.
If she’s right again, this is the last major unlock before embodied AI actually works.