X, The Moonshot Factory

X is a moonshot factory. Our goal is to invent and launch breakthrough technologies that have the potential to solve the world's biggest problems.

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🎧 Introducing the Moonshot Podcast! 🎧

X’s first-ever podcast chronicles the untold stories of innovation—both the highs and lows—from 15 years inside Google’s Moonshot Factory.

Stay tuned for the world premiere on March 10!

https://t.co/bBouwXhipX

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🤓 Introducing X’s Moonshot for Specialized Professional Intelligence!

📄 This team is building domain-specific AI infrastructure to help professionals like lawyers and doctors spend less time wrangling data and more time providing expertise to their clients: https://t.co/GLnPYryWDz

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In the latest episode of The Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive series, @emilyjma sat down with @astroteller for a conversation about what to do about the world’s food waste.

They discussed how Emily’s team built an “air traffic control” system for food waste and more: https://t.co/YMH9byBVBU

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That’s a wrap on 2025! 🚀🚀

Thanks to everyone who made moonshots possible this year. Here’s to dreaming even bigger and bolder, together in 2026.

#lifeatthemoonshotfactory

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Today our team published new research demonstrating how two industrial waste streams can become an unexpected revenue stream.

The paper outlines a breakthrough economic opportunity to recycle concrete using the acid byproduct from a carbon sequestration technique: https://t.co/MTQrTjaqmW

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X is on @Inc’s 2025 #BestInBusiness list!

Thanks to the Inc team for recognizing our work and mission, and congratulations to all the other innovators doing impactful work on the list: https://t.co/hGtBQJ9NX7

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“Think of this as a magical layer modifying your local sound.”

In the latest episode of The Moonshot Podcast’s Deep Dive video series, @AstroTeller sat down with iyO Founder @rugolo for a conversation about the future of audio wearables: https://t.co/bif4Y8d6MF

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As the city of Rio de Janeiro prepares to transform its Olympic Park region into one of the largest hubs for AI data centers in Latin America, @pagecrhn shared with @_LatitudeMedia's @MaeveAllsup how the city will use Tapestry to ensure its grid continues to deliver abundant, reliable energy.

Read more: https://t.co/zl2W20jVAt

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X’s Bellwether team worked with @GoogleResearch and @GoogleDeepMind to help insurers better understand hurricane behavior.

Bellwether developed a model that can predict the likelihood of whether buildings will be damaged—up to 15 days before the storm hits: https://t.co/9aKsXxK9mD

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🌖🇧🇷Moonshots come to Rio de Janeiro!

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Tapestry, Taara, Anori, and Materra are launching in Rio to help Brazil's second-largest city reach its bold vision of becoming a global hub for innovation: https://t.co/e6Faldmvi4

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🏗️ Introducing Anori, X’s moonshot for building and development.

Anori is developing a new AI platform to help developers, the architecture and construction industries, and cities untangle the complexities of new building projects.

Learn more: https://t.co/2qJ6um5h9g

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🐒 Monkeys, compost and c**p. 💩

Unique words and phrases play a really important role in our culture and process. Hear @astroteller and the moonshot factory team break down some of our favorites: https://t.co/XGi4ItYbFv

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@MasterClass Let’s do this! 🚀🚀🚀

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🎉 Congratulations to Tapestry for being named one of @FastCompany’s 2025 Next Big Things in Tech!

Learn more about the team’s mission to make the world’s electric grid visible, and check out the full list: https://t.co/Etq2GwinET

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The Moonshot Podcast was nominated for two Listener’s Choice @SignalAwards -- and we’d love your vote!

If you enjoyed hearing from the inventors, designers, engineers, and technologists behind our moonshot projects, you can vote for us in two categories by October 9:

✂️ Best Editing: https://t.co/a7CrjIxWPa

🔍 Best Science & Education Podcast: https://t.co/DUPcjQD68Z

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Humans use nearly 300 million metric tons of oil annually to make plastic products.

Materra, X’s moonshot for circularity, recently partnered with @AlterraEnergy to help enable their pyrolysis process—a technique that transforms plastic waste back into the oil: https://t.co/IoiNX8b9ej

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X’s Captain of Moonshots @astroteller sat down with @manoushz on @NPR’s @TEDRadioHour for a conversation about our moonshot-taking philosophies.

He discussed how self-driving cars evolved from a radical idea to reality, why we call ourselves “chaos pilots,” how the “moonshot compost” from past projects makes its way into new pursuits, and why it’s essential not to take yourself too seriously even while working on serious challenges.

Check out the full episode: https://t.co/l4fC5li4yq

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🧬 Introducing A-Life!

🚀 A-Life is X’s moonshot to unlock the manufacturing power of biology—so we can help nature help humanity make the things we need.

✨ The team has developed an AI platform built specifically for biology. Learn more: https://t.co/CZqKKL2Rfd

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We’re excited to be a launch partner for the new @MasterClass Certificates program, which helps people at any stage of their career learn and grow.

Our course, “Breakthrough Innovation Strategy: From Bold Ideas to Business Impact,” launches in October. Stay tuned for more!

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The raise. The pivot. The next big move.

You won’t get there using an outdated playbook.

We teamed up with the world’s leading organizations to build something better.

Real skills. Real projects. Real proof.

This is how you move forward with confidence.

Introducing: MasterClass Certificates.

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“How could we have 100 million teachers and one student?”

X’s Captain of Moonshots @astroteller sat down with Google DeepMind’s Chief Scientist @JeffDean about where large-scale neural networks came from and where they’re headed next: https://t.co/8NEKPRela0

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💡 Inspecting and repairing the electric grid is only getting harder.

🔌 Tapestry, X’s moonshot for the electric grid, is partnering with @Vectorltd, New Zealand’s largest energy distribution utility, to explore how tools like AI and computer vision can help tackle these challenges: https://t.co/o5Gpbon1Oo