Founder – CEO of OpenStar, building the Dipole, a stable, simple, modular, fusion reactor that can be iterated and deployed fast enough to matter.
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2025
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If we could have torn down and rebuilt tokamaks this quickly we'd have had fusion back in the 80s...
How we know the charge carrier in a superconductor is a "Cooper Pair"
2 electrons in a loosely bound state with each other.
Each one of these dots has one pair spinning around it!!
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Introducing SCRUB-1: teaching a robot arm to support the scrub tech with instrument work. Tested on the bench.
We fine-tuned π0.5 from @physical_int on three tasks: 300 demonstrations each, 403 trials scored live.
Fine-tuning took the handoff from 0% to 79%.
Great article out on the new alchemic age from our friends at Marathon
construction-physics.com/p/a…
Move faster, makes it cheaper, increases risk tolerance, makes it faster. Repeat
The project management triangle is a lie. Its not a trade off its a cycle.
You can chose if it's virtuous or vicious.
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Boom! $100m Series A to bring ultrafast inference for open source.
We believe the demand for ultrafast inference will be many times larger than slow inference. But right now it's never made it to market at scale.
We are here to change it. First racks live in Q1 2027 🚀
Massive thank you to @jamespalmer13 at @BlackbirdVC and @dkwon98 at @abstractvc for co-leading.
+ participation from @QEDInvestors, @645ventures, @carbideventures, @endeavor_global and @ausgulfcapital, @icehouse_ventures and bold capital partners.
Final hat tip to our entire cap table who doubled down.
No better feeling as a founder than getting this level of conviction from your existing backers.
@maxkilberg, @adwane and @bencasnocha from @villageglobal (pre-seed) @camborumand from @Fuse_vc (seed)
@jthassel from evercrest (Seed)
@morganschwanke from @manaventures (pre seed)
@salil from Uncorrelated Ventures (seed)
@themichaelljgo from @plugandplaytc (angel / pre seed)
Spicy chips are going mainstream 🌶️
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🚨 Big news today: We’ve raised $100M for our Series A! 🎉 🚀
We believe demand for fast inference is many times larger than demand for slow inference, and it’s about to go exponential.
Thanks to our co-leads @BlackbirdVC and @Abstractvc. Two visionary partners join our journey 🎉 🚀
Immediate application of this should be for the refurbishment of existing single crystal parts where process speed will be almost a non issue.
A 3D-printing method has made single crystals of metals and alloys in complex shapes and up to one metre in length, as needed for advanced technological applications
go.nature.com/4BmlME1
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thank you @MarathonFusion team for coming on mts studio live, and sharing the story of building a fusion reactor in san francisco!
Marathon Fusion CEO @kylecschiller explains why superintelligence could do far more for fusion than for solar panels:
"There’s all this discourse around what we’re going to do in the future when we have superintelligence. We’re probably not going to optimize solar panels that much harder. They’re already very close to the maximally efficient end state of what a solar panel is."
"I think about how bad fusion is today, and I get really excited instead of depressed."
"We have this machine that the more intelligence we throw at it, the better it gets at spitting out energy, and also all other forms of matter. That’s the thing I wanna bet on."
@jfp_fusioneer @MarathonFusion
donaldjewkes did a sick job sharing the marathon story, made alchemy dope!
Meanwhile at OpenStar if you ask our team what's going on:
my neighbors in SF are building fusion reactors
they've turned mercury into gold, built the world's most powerful plasma centrifuge, and are on track to set the power density record in 2027
I spent a week with them working on a rave, brand, web, pics, vids, and witnessing many successful fusion pulses
I was lucky enough to meet Adam in the early days of marathon.
5 hours walking the streets of Tokyo and I had decided he was one of the smartest people I'd ever met. The best product of out-the-box x practical thinker I had come across.
He did not disappoint.
I don't quite get why every everyone is so bearish on gold.
This is just an upgrade to gold's proof of work algo.
And now the proof of work produces energy instead of consuming it!
Explore how valuable transmutation could be
nuclide-explorer.openstar.te…
fastest, smartest pivot I've seen justify investing in alchemy!
nitter.cf/MarathonFusion/status/…
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Just your average Thursday on X, the everything app...
Gorgeous machining, plasma, alchemy, fusion, levitation, control rooms...and 196 followers.
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