Greg Mark @Greg_Forged

This is the coolest car tech I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot. Congrats to @elonmusk and the Tesla / spaceX crew. Very impressive.

Tesla @Tesla

2 weeks ago

Real life, baby

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@paulg @paulg Did you overhaul this yourself? I’ve done 3. I started with ladies movement bc they’re super low cost on eBay.

You’re assuming clean data. The incentives here would push one to deflate costs, or attribute them to another cost center. This experiment has been run many times, across countries, and throughout time. I’m a huge fan of states rights. I’d encourage you to go to the CA dmv if you want to see where this is going. And I’d encourage you to go to New Hampshire to see a state runs like a well functioning startup. It’s inspiring.

You know @elonmusk cares about open source because he gives away some of his best ideas. Non-obvious and incredibly thoughtful material choice.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

3 months ago

If you’re interested in learning why I switched Starship from carbon fiber to stainless steel

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Always on point.

Satya Nadella @satyanadella

5 months ago

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@zoink @untillabs Very cool! If they need hard-tech advice, lmk. I’m a huge fan of cryo.

@zoink Congrats Dylan!! I hope you get a moment to slow down and soak it in.

@DavidSHolz We won the planet lottery for sure. And it’s awesome.

@zoink @figma It’s exciting for public investors to access to such a transformation product / company. I’ll be buying shares :)

At MIT studying rocket engines, we learned from the Germans who invented them and the Russians who perfected them. For decades, US companies bought Russian RD-180 engines because they were the best. Now SpaceX makes the world’s best engines, and MIT students study American rocket technology. Thanks, @SpaceX. The Raptor is a work of art.

@MarioNawfal @elonmusk Is this just USA? What about the Chinese EV’s?

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It used to be major projects like this were US based. If the cost here is right, this epic bridge was built for less than SF played to put nets on the golden gate. As @elonmusk said, “they must be some nice nets”.

Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

2 years ago

China's Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is set to open this year, becoming the world's tallest bridge at 2050 feet high. Recent footage of the bridge has been released, showing crews putting on the finishing touches. One of the most insane facts about the bridge is that

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The future will be more beautiful with @nudge.

Nudge @nudge

2 years ago

Nudge Zero has the potential to deliver anatomically precise, personalized treatments, engaging deep regions of the brain that are typically accessible only through invasive surgery.

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@hedra_labs always pushing the bounds on tech.

Olivia Moore @omooretweets

2 years ago

Every podcast needs to be Ghibli going forward

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@omooretweets @hedra_labs always out in front.

AI OVERPRODUCTION China seeks to commoditize their complements. So, over the following months, I expect a complete blitz of Chinese open-source AI models for everything from computer vision to robotics to image generation. Why? I’m just inferring this from public statements, but their apparent goal is to take the profit out of AI software since they make money on AI-enabled hardware. Basically, they want to do to US tech (the last stronghold) what they already did to US manufacturing. Namely: copy it, optimize it, scale it, then wreck the Western original with low prices. I don’t know if they’ll succeed. But here’s the logic: (1) First, China noticed that DeepSeek’s release temporarily knocked ~$1T off US tech market caps. (2) Second, China’s core competency is exporting physical widgets, more than it is software. (3) Third, China’s other core competency is exporting things at such massive scale that all foreign producers are bankrupted and they win the market. See what they’re doing to German and Japanese cars, for example. (4) Fourth, China is well aware that it lacks global prestige as it’s historically been a copycat. With DeepSeek, becoming #1 in AI is now something they actually consider possibly achievable, and a matter of national pride. (5) Fifth, DeepSeek has gone viral in China and its open source nature means that everyone can rapidly integrate it, down to the level of local officials and obscure companies. And they are doing so, and posting the results for praise on WeChat. (6) Finally, while DeepSeek was obscure before recent events, it’s now a household name, and the founder (Liang Wengfeng) has met both with Xi but also the #2 in China, Li Qiang. They likely have unlimited resources now. So, if you put all that together, China thinks it has an opportunity to hit US tech companies, boost its prestige, help its internal economy, and take the margins out of AI software globally (at least at the model level). They will instead make their money by selling inexpensive AI-enabled hardware of increasing quality, from smart homes and self-driving cars to consumer drones and robot dogs. Basically, China is trying to do to AI what they always do: study, copy, optimize, and then bankrupt everyone with low prices and enormous scale. I don’t know if they’ll succeed at the app layer. But it could be hard for closed-source AI model developers to recoup the high fixed costs associated with training state-of-the-art models when great open source models are available. Last, I agree it’s surprising that the country of the Great Firewall is suddenly the country of open source AI. But it is consistent in a different way, which is that China is just focused on doing whatever it takes to win — even to the point of copying partially-abandoned Western values like open source, which seemed like the hardest thing to adopt. On that point: they did build censorship into the released DeepSeek AI models, but in a manner that’s easily circumvented outside China. So, you might conclude they don’t really care what non-Chinese people are saying outside China in other languages, so long as this doesn’t “interfere with China’s internal affairs.” Anyway —this is an area I’ve been watching, and my reluctant conclusion is that China is getting better at software faster than the West is getting better at hardware.

Damien Ma @damienics

2 years ago

What's the best explanation you've heard for why China is leaning so hard into open source? It's now an official position from the foreign ministry apparently.

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Elon Musk @elonmusk

2 years ago

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@DavidSHolz This will be the most universally loved AI, and will bring people from different cultures together 🤍

@PalmerLuckey @PalmerLuckey thanks for being vocal my guy. I’m sure it’s not easy, and I appreciate it.