Of the past 312 orders we could fulfill in 48 hours, we won 79.5% of them. Crazy. I am sure this is true for parts, valves, components, etc. Go build!

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DC Deep Tech Week has officially wrapped. Across six days, the program drew 3,691 unique registered attendees—including 695 founders—to 26 public events throughout Washington, DC and Northern Virginia. Twenty-eight startups and 47 organizations presented across a week of founder talks, technical presentations, panels, demonstrations, screenings, roundtables, showcases, startup crawls and community gatherings. Thank you to the hosts, organizing partners, venues and sponsors who made the week possible: 8090 Industries; Air Force Research Laboratory (@AFResearchLab); AKULAR (@AKULAR_AR); Arlington Economic Development (@AEDBizInvest); Atypical Ventures (@atypicalvc); Auron Solutions; Brave Capital (@brave_cap); Cornell University (@Cornell); Fulcrum Venture Group; HAUS (@deeptechagency); and Hyperstition Incorporated; JBG SMITH (@jbgsmith); Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (@JHUAPL); KdT Ventures (@KdT_Ventures); Level Five VC (@LevelFiveVC); National Innovation Quarter (@NationalIQ); New Vista Capital (@NewVistaCap); Point72 Ventures (@p72vc); Ramification Laboratories; Red Cell Partners (@RedCellPartners); Squadra Ventures (@squadra_vc); and SRI International (@SRI_Intl); Station Alpha; The Capital Factory (@CapitalFactory); The Nuclear Company (@TheNuclearCo); VC in DC; Veteran Ventures (@VenturesVeteran); Virtus Innovation Center; WIseCost; Armored Fresh; Statecraft (@statecraft_labs); and Anomalous Heat LLC. The energy in DC was incredible - there are people shoulder to the wheel at the highest leverage positions in the world accelerating a science fiction future into reality. See you next year at DC Deep Tech Week 2027, mid September. deep-tech-week.com/washingto…

New role. Same mission. I’ve joined @LevelFiveVC to invest in deep tech deployment that moves civilization forward. Build. Ship. Make the future better. Let’s go 🚀

Titanium … Does. Not. Corrode. Obviously we continue to build and fabricate the vast majority of our buildings, equipment and working assets from steel. Steel is an incredibly versatile material, we are very good at using steel. Steel is great. Steel corrodes Things that are made of steel are temporary, the Forth Bridge (my pfp) is a cantilever rail bridge built in 1883. It was constructed from 51,000 tonnes of steel. The Forth Bridge is painted from end to end every two years, and it takes two years to paint the bridge. The bridge is perpetually being painted to protect it from corrosion and that’s why it is still standing after 143 years. Titanium does not corrode, in fact it is so inert that titanium is used for medical implants. There are people walking around with titanium plates in their skull. Quite a staggering feat of corrosion resistance. If a society really wanted to build lasting monuments we would use stone and titanium. 1,000 years from now the only surviving buildings of this era will be the ones that did not use steel. In many countries the suburbs are more durably constructed than the metropolitan centres. We don’t use titanium because it is expensive, and it is expensive because we still rely on the Kroll process to process titanium ore. 200 years ago aluminium used to be very expensive, kings and queens would use aluminium cutlery as a display of opulence. Today we figured out how to process aluminium very cheaply and now we make 1 billion aluminium cans every day. Titanium is still stuck in the expensive-to-process phase, even though it is the 9th most abundant element on earth. Soon someone is going to solve titanium processing and the aesthetic of every city will change dramatically and things will start feeling very futuristic.

This week, @ActinideInc became the first startup in history to enrich uranium, producing HALEU, the fuel for next-gen and small modular reactors. We did it using Endurance, a particle accelerator that we designed and built in Texas. Endurance usually produces enriched Yb-176, a precursor for cancer therapies worth roughly $30,000 per gram. After a bulk Yb-176 delivery on July 30, we reconfigured Endurance for uranium.

A list of things that I think will happen soon in the deep tech space / in general after drinking too much coffee today: The time of non-silicon / conventional computing is upon us. There will be a massive influx of capital into computing platforms that are either radically different, or else, use existing mature platforms in novel ways. I would say adiabatic / reversible computing like @VaireHQ @rodolfor, probabilistic / thermodynamic asics like @extropic @beffjezos, silicon photonics like @LightmatterCo and others. Why? Moore's law is petering out in various ways, but more simply the clock speed of compute flat-lined a long long time ago. A silicon transistor is like a tiny current amplifier, and there is a maximum refresh rate beyond which the amplifer gain is below unity. That, and the chemistry of the charge depletion zone means the electrons are always bouncing around, causing heat, and indeed thermal transport and clock speeds are two limiting factors on compute density. More generally, however, is that probabilistic-based AI models running on deterministic finite gate logic is a fundamental mismatch. If you wanted to e.g. implement energy based models, there is a far far more elegant and intuitive way of implementing this by leveraging the physics of a system to represent the energy landscape directly. Civilization will do everything it can to maximize compute density across all metrics - volumetric, weight, energy, etc. The fastest implementations likely leverage existing CMOS / silicon fab tech but use the same things in completely new ways. Biotech is not even 1% started Biological systems are by far the most advanced technological platform in the known universe, something that has been optimized over billions of years in parallelized evolutionary algorithms. Biology is the strong-form of nanotech - human beings unpack via self-assembling molecular turing-complete computers that can take something smaller than a grain of sand and grow it into a physical form factory that has 100x the performance capabilities of any known robot, or any known AI model, in versatility and adaptability. Even a trivial example like insects represents a kind of robot that humanity is an unimaginably far distance from being able to design from scratch, but this distance is massively compressed in the era of AI. The limit on the speed of development in this area is fundamentally data acquisition through more and more modalities across the biological spectrum. Transcriptomics and sequencing do not give a complete picture - things like light sheet microscopy (@loicaroyer ), raman scattering (@Precigenetics), and other optical methods that can provide volumetric time-resolved 4D datasets on living biological systems are the lynchpin in reverse-engineering this branch of nanotech, and large-scale automated biology factories, like Gingko Bioworks (@jrkelly), need to produce several internets-worth of training data to decode biology. Things like therapeutics, peptides, cancer vaccines, and so on are the highest value but only first wave of applications of biotech. Biotech is a general technology - it is the most dense and versatile form of robotics imaginable, the most energy and resource efficient means of manufacturing, and there is really nothing in physical law that says you cannot grow a car, a building, a factory via biological nanotech. AI Labs will become Everything Companies Anthropic and OpenAI will massively expand into all areas in which AI has high leverage, into things like self-driving robotic laboratories for material sciences, biological discovery, but even further - into manufacturing, metallurgy, design and simulations. One month's revenue can king-make them as the best-funded player in any one of those categories. We think it is wild that Jeff Bezos could raise $12B to build Prometheus, the vertically integrate design and fabrication engine. This is probably four weeks of revenue for Anthropic in 2027. By 2028 I would not be surprised if frontier labs are planning to vertically integrating the entire techno industrial stack, from raw minerals extraction, refining, chip production, to space programs and rocket designs. It will not be humans designing and implementing these systems, all the capital pressure in the universe will be on removing humans from the loop in any of these domains to accelerate the volume of compute being brought online. Robotics and Manufacturing will produce a generalized API to the physical world We think it is amazing that an ai agent can tool-call notion or slack, or now click around on a screen and debug a browser. Consider now if that same agent could order 100 tons of raw materials and transform this into a house, an apartment block, a functioning one-off multi-ton casting press, and so on. The strong form of robotics as applied to manufacturing means that humanity and machine intelligence both will have a software-defined API to the physical world that will unleash a tidal wave of abundance that is beyond imaginable. It is convenient to have something summarize your emails, it is something else when the cost of every physical good falls to the marginal cost of energy required to produce it, and in general, everything will decline to the cost floor of energy.

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It’s rude to ask - a woman her age - a man his salary - a robot deployer how many robots they’ve deployed for non-research use cases

The United States of America is the only country on the planet with the capacity and foresight to bring humanity to the stars, and not in the name of a totalitarian political ideology, but as is stated in NASA's founding charter: For All Mankind. ​Now, by any reasonable measure the technology and engineering skills required to construct a permanent human settlement on the moon was developed in the 1960s, mature and tested in DoE and NASA laboratories by the 1970s, and then shelved for four decades as America fought a different battle - against inflation, against religious extremism, and in the recent culture wars, against itself. ​Today we face a different frontier and a more worthy adversary, the laws of physics, of material science, of electrical engineering and mechanical design, as Deep Tech Startups across the country are taking up the plans for fusion reactors, nuclear batteries, nuclear rockets, supersonic jets, lunar habitats, deep space communications, designs straight out of government funded white papers of the Cold War, and invigorating them with the leaps and bounds made since then in information processing, in compute density, robotics, automation, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence. ​It was the defense industry that made possible both nuclear energy and the space industry, and today the defense industry is in the process of reinventing itself as new technology companies race to develop capacities that would protect the national interests of the country taking humanity to the stars. ​It's not just defense, nuclear energy, aerospace, and the orbital economy, but all these things at once and combined together that will make humanity a space faring civilization ​For all these reasons, and thanks to @FrankVTaylor, @deeptechweek is coming to Washington DC. In just three weeks. A stacked lineup of venture funds in defense and energy - @levelfivevc @KdT_ventures @venturesveteran @brave_cap @newVistaCap @redcellPartners @p72vc Squadra Ventures, Fulcum Venture Group, Cerberus Ventures Just a sample of some of the startups participating: @TheNuclearCo @CowboySpaceCorp @TokamakEnergy @ElectraAero @phantom_neuro @zeno_power @AON3D @hiddenlevelinc @vatnsystems and Exodus Propulsion Along with @deeptechagency @Fusion_Industry @SpaceWERXDOD @DIU_x @NSWCCarderock @jbgsmith @AEDBizInvest @SiliconVlyBank @Technical_ly And everyones favorite nuclear influencers @isodope and @energybants

I’m incredibly excited to announce that Lumina has acquired our first factory. At 250,000 sq. ft., the facility includes 20+ CNC machines, multiple cutting beds, and a team of more than 100 people. Our steel business is on track to generate $15M in revenue this year, with a goal of doubling to $30M next year. Beyond serving external customers, the factory will bring dozens of Lumina vehicle fabrications in-house over the next 8–10 months. As we scale Moonlander deployments and prepare to launch BladeRunner, this facility will support our steel production needs through 2026 and 2027. We own the land, the building, and the equipment. This is the first of many factories we plan to bring into the Lumina portfolio, and we’re excited to bring you along for the journey.