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ICON announced our $200M+ Series D today. I thought it was worth sharing again why we do what we do. x.com/i/article/2110…
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My apologies to a bunch of new followers who think I’m a country singer. It’s a nice thought, but I believe you are looking for Jason Bellard.
Maybe in another season. Godspeed.
Maybe in another season. Godspeed.
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Happy Wednesday. On today's show:
- @JohnCUrschel (MIT/NFL)
- @bernhardsson (Modal)
- @Tyrangiel (The Atlantic)
- @nicolasosharp (Attio)
- @JasonDBallard (ICON)
- @DanielleAxman (Wilder Market)
- @neckelthomas (Fragment)
- Kabir Jain (Erewhon)
See you on the stream.
- @JohnCUrschel (MIT/NFL)
- @bernhardsson (Modal)
- @Tyrangiel (The Atlantic)
- @nicolasosharp (Attio)
- @JasonDBallard (ICON)
- @DanielleAxman (Wilder Market)
- @neckelthomas (Fragment)
- Kabir Jain (Erewhon)
See you on the stream.
Xbox Labs, Animatronic Birds, IoT Device Warfare, Reflection, Decart, CharacterAI x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Let America Build! We Ride.
Alongside the leaders in the industry, aligned on a shared mission: build faster, build smarter, build America. Let's get to work. → LetAmericaBuild.org
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We ride
One of NASA's partners in lunar surface construction, Carlos García-Galán, just spent an hour on Houston We Have a Podcast describing humanity's first Moon Base. Phase one alone: more than 20 lunar landings.
Listen for what he says about the surface itself. 3D printing structures from regolith. Lasing regolith to pave a road or smooth a pad so habitats sit on level ground. Printed berms to shield landing sites and shelter a nuclear reactor.
That is not a wish list. That is the work. It is why we cannot ship buildings to the Moon. We have to ship the builder.
At ICON Prime, this is what our team wakes up to do as NASA's industry lead on lunar surface construction. Landing pads, habitats, and roadways built from the material already there.
Apollo got us there. Artemis is how we stay. Worth your commute:
megaphone.link/NATIONALAERONA…
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Let’s go Debo!
Today, after 7 years in stealth, I, @emeskey and our co-founders are proud to announce @keplercompute.
The world is much better off when we give power & intelligence to the people. When everyone can become their highest selves by pairing their human creativity with the expoigence from our magnificent computers.
Our goal is to unlock the power of frontier intelligence for everyone by pushing memory and logic chip manufacturing to the limits of physics.
To achieve this, we will move the world from one of compute scarcity to abundance where we can make orders of magnitude more chips per dollar and can lower datacenter energies to the limits of physics. We will use physics to ensure we have enough chips and that we can power them on.
Why is compute scarce?
Today's dominant approach - shrinking transistors with EUV - has run into $20B-$40B fabs that take years to build. Sized against that risk, the industry (quite rationally!) grows capex much slower than AI demand that can grow 10x in a year.
In the current system, scarcity is built in.
A different way is possible.
We founded Kepler on the following beliefs:
1. It is possible to build leadership chips without a dependence on EUV
2. It is possible to achieve multiple orders of magnitude more intelligence per watt by evolving chips 2D Silicon to 3D Beyond silicon
3. It is possible to get much closer to the physical limits of computing than we are today while staying within mainstream digital computing
Memory is the biggest binding constraint on AI compute and so we start with a new frontier of AI memory- approaching the bandwidth per watt of SRAM, going up to 10x beyond the capacity of HBM. We use 3D and materials innovations that allow for leapfrogging leading nodes while requiring no EUV lithography and allowing us use fabs that already exist.
Our team co-led one of the industry's first 3D chip-stacking technologies, has led and scaled seven generations of DRAM and multiple logic designs into billions of chips. We built the world's first commercial physical synthesis tool and techniques at the heart of the logic design industry and solved long standing challenges in ferroelectrics, invented beyond CMOS logic devices. We would love to work with you to reinvent chip manufacturing here in America.
We have raised $468m, built our own fab and our AI memories sample this year and ramp to production next year. We are allocated for 2027 and will be scaling in America by 2028.
We are open for business, please get in touch to work together. We are also growing the group of Keplerians and would love to work with you.
Learn More @ Kepler: keplercompute.com
Read our story in @WIRED: wired.com/story/a-new-do…
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icon uses 3D printing to rethink how homes are built, from affordable housing and communities to private residences and desert retreats. the projects show how one construction system can adapt to different sites, scales, budgets, and ways of living.
designboom.com/architecture/i…
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Wild to be included in this, but I am honored … especially a joy to be alongside my friend @BjarkeIngels, a man of supreme talents
TIME's inaugural Trailblazers list recognizes leaders who, across the world, are designing and making a better future time.com/article/2026/0…
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Rest in Peace Wendell Berry. Memory Eternal.
It may be strange that a man who makes robots has such an affinity for an avowed agrarian, but he had a profound influence on my life and I hope will continue to do so.
It may be strange that a man who makes robots has such an affinity for an avowed agrarian, but he had a profound influence on my life and I hope will continue to do so.
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Nine months ago, this was dirt.
Today, the first U.S. Army soldiers are officially moving into the brand-new, 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss.
It was built 3x faster than standard military construction.
Here's what modernizing defense infrastructure looks like 🧵👇
Today, the first U.S. Army soldiers are officially moving into the brand-new, 3D-printed barracks at Fort Bliss.
It was built 3x faster than standard military construction.
Here's what modernizing defense infrastructure looks like 🧵👇
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This month's Third Thursday Themes features my conversation with @TonyRobbins and @JasonDBallard, CEO of @ICON3DTech, on robotics built for space and defense, now adapted to 3D print homes faster and at a lower cost. It's a great example of how solving the hardest problems in one industry can unlock breakthroughs in another.
Watch the full episode: cazinvestments.com/printing-the-f…
Watch the full episode: cazinvestments.com/printing-the-f…
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