abundance engineer @provenmetal curiously optimistic
San Francisco, USA
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Will Carkner retweeted
> be me
> @akilian says ai obvs going to do big science
> ok then it will need a lab right
> actually it will need REALLY big labs
> they don’t exist
> ok we will build it
> mfw ai doing science with the homies
In 12 weeks, we built a research facility that is run entirely by AI.
AI designs, executes, and observes experiments end-to-end across biology, chemistry, and materials science.
We’re introducing SciUniverse: a benchmark that measures AI’s ability to do real-world scientific research.
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Will Carkner retweeted
Top hard tech founders are quickly becoming capital stack nerds lol. Venture for risk. Debt for scale. Customer prepayments for working capital. Government dollars for infrastructure. Project finance for deployment. Once technical risk is dead & customers are buying, 20% dilution starts looking insanely expensive. Game is shifting from fundraising to capital formation. Sexiest round will eventually be the one where founders sell zero equity.
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for component sourcing, often:
99% can be found with agents through distributors
1% you’ve gotta get creative…
on a recent order, one chip had a 5 week lead time.
our agents found a dev board that had it, got the CM to de-solder them, and ordered them to meet timeline.
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finally, fast-ish quoting
dfm review, bare board fabrication, sourcing every component, assembly, testing all need to have a price
now - immediate estimate, followed up with a firm quote within minutes.
as our integrations get better the estimates get more accurate.
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ordering pcbs in the us is super tricky for some reason.
we're making it as easy as possible
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Will Carkner retweeted
ordering circuit boards is unnecessarily complicated and slow. Quoting in email, order status in spreadsheets, component tracking in different supplier portals, DFM reviews in PDFs.
we built Central: one platform for ordering, tracking every shipment, and detecting supply chain and dfm issues during the design process.
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Will Carkner retweeted
The startups YC funds now are much more serious than they were in the supposedly good old days. In the last couple days I've met with startups making optical switches, rewriting the software infrastructure of manufacturing, making nuclear reactors, and curing cancer.
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