Steve Jurvetson

About those AI moonshots… As a percent of GDP, AI capex is 10x Apollo. From today’s WSJ https://t.co/y0R0Jmifb7

Been waiting to break out the anticipatory t-shirt https://t.co/fBg82ksTRD

🦑 Ammonites used to rule the seas for 350M years. They were prolific, and adaptive, with over 10,000 different species, across sizes spanning from a millimeter to 10 feet across. But then they all ...

🚘 Honda evaluated all of the AI options for their cars, and only Mythic's analog inference chips allow them to scale to 100,000 TOPS using 100x less energy. “Cars are quickly becoming petascale su...

𝐅⃣𝐎⃣𝐂⃣𝐔⃣𝐒⃣ The ASML Way I just finished this history of the most important semiconductor equipment company in the world, as translated from the Dutch original (and lurking in the background might...

🌆 SimCity: Like the Vegas strip, Dubai has concentrated high-rises along one central road. Both locations are beset with intractable traffic... until the Boring LOOP takes it underground. The full...

SpaceX has acquired xAI Elon's letter: "The basic math is that launching a million tons per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per ton would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capa...

Starlinks on a Plane ✈️ Once you experience it, you won't want to go back. And for a sign of how valuable this is to their customers, United Airlines took out a Super Bowl ad: https://t.co/TzAAX8...

Marvel at our molecular machines 🧬 This DNA repair mechanism is underway in your cells, undoing mutations that would otherwise dissolve into cancer and chaos. It employs ~600 proteins organized i...

Before Think Different, there was 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐊 Oh wow, I just won the auction of Steve Jobs’  THINK poster and his Apple 1 ribbon cable from his home garage, birthplace of Apple Computer. 1) THINK: i...

TIME to get excited 🌏 🌔🚀 Artemis II is preparing for launch in early February, to go where no man, woman or Canadian has gone before. Voyaging farther than the prior record from Apollo 13, the cr...

Update from today's Tesla call with @ElonMusk: • Q4 earnings beat expectations with $25B in revenue and adj. EPS of $0.50 • Company mission is "amazing abundance" • Tesla now gathers more AI traini...

🍨 — it's not just for breakfast anymore. I eat ice cream every day, at home and office. When I wore a continuous blood glucose monitor, I did some diet experiments. Rice and oat milk and lemonade...

The origin of the 🇺🇸 dream: “The American Dream is the single greatest idea we have contributed to the world. It has been with us for 95 years, but it almost did not see the light of day.” — @ToddR...

Defining the American Dream A fun surprise to see our definition decorating the elevator, and then the huge portraits glowing at a conference for philanthropists this weekend. “54% of Americans th...

Mr Beast has the greatest reach of any media ever — reaching 1 billion unique viewers per quarter. That’s 12% of all people. He picked some of our future ventures — see him taste test UPSIDE’s cel...

🧠 Is intelligence substrate-dependent? Neuroscience Prof. Anil Seth argues that conscious human intelligence is tightly coupled to our living, biological substrate, not replicable or simulatable ...

SPAC attack 💥 A throwback Thursday to that time I rode the General Fusion reactor like Major Kong... It had an effect on me. It's veritable steam punk — they use the heat from a molten swirling l...

Good news for American critical metals supply from the most environmentally benign mining opportunity ever discovered:

“Do you like our owl? It’s synthetic” — Blade Runner https://t.co/e1JQePpeKA