Scientist & Investor | Partner @PrimeMoversLab | Advisor @TulsaLocalVentures & @GKFF | Building the future | Ancora imparo.
Tulsa, OK
Joined May 2009
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Justin Briggs retweeted
Today Boom unveils our first completed supersonic turbine core, a 2GW Superfactory, and—one more thing—the world's most advanced all-digital foundry to cast single crystal turbine blades and vanes
Justin Briggs retweeted
Since 2022, Google, Meta and SoCal Edison have contracted ~1.2 GW of geothermal power from plants that haven’t been built yet, at $105–107/MWh.
AI needs firm, carbon-free power. Our new white paper looks at where geothermal goes next: bit.ly/3VX3nNU
Justin Briggs retweeted
The team blindsided me with a polygraph test, it was crazy. But it's important to me that Hark does this right.
Your data is yours.
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"Okay, I have a lot to say."
Those were the first words a Michigan woman with motor neuron disease spoke through @Paradromics' Connexus BCI. @Forbes calls it a landmark year for the company and the implanted brain-computer interfaces. 🔗 bit.ly/3Vk6eQF
Justin Briggs retweeted
The race for the most important results in science is a two-horse race between:
- LLMs backed by trillions of dollars, armies of geniuses, and the full weight of capitalism
and
- Michael Levin
My money is on Michael Levin.
Here it is - the official, revised, peer-reviewed version of my Platonic Space paper. mdpi.com/2409-9287/11/5/161 Of all the many unpopular positions I’ve taken over the decades - bitter controversies around the origin of left-right asymmetry in embryogenesis, bioelectricity and genetics, diverse intelligence, etc., this one has by far generated the most pushback: serious (grateful for those!) and energetic attempts to move me to other views, pleas to just drop it and not talk about it (for several different reasons), nasty emails and accusations, impacts on reviews of papers that have nothing to do with this, etc. Kind of amazing to me how incendiary this is. What can I say... Our job is to call it as we see it, and right now for me, this is it. Apologies to collaborators and colleagues for any shrapnel! Time will tell if this pans out or not; I've placed my bets. And btw, if you think this stuff is weird and uncomfortable, just wait… There’s much more on the way. The knob turns slowly but as long as the data keep coming, I'm going to say what I think it all means and follow it to the next steps it enables. Buckle up!
Justin Briggs retweeted
Struldbrugg, Dorian Gray, Peter Pan, and Wolverine are all longevity-biology archetypes.
Only one unlocks the real trillion-dollar prize, and our reimbursement system rewards exactly the wrong one. Partner Justin Briggs (@briggsly) maps the longevity investment landscape and outlines the technology that excites us most.
Read his latest piece on Substack: briggsly.substack.com/p/4894…
$38 trillion is longevity’s most-quoted number, and the least useful.
It isn’t revenue, it isn’t annual, it isn’t addressable, and it’s not what your drug will earn.
It’s the societal value of one added healthy year.
New piece for @primemoverslab on what a year of life is actually worth. And why how you add it matters more than how big the headline is.
primemoverslab.substack.com/…
$38 trillion is longevity’s most-quoted number, and the least useful.
It isn’t revenue, it isn’t annual, it isn’t addressable, and it’s not what your drug will earn.
It’s the societal value of one added healthy year.
New piece for @primemoverslab on what a year of life is actually worth. And why how you add it matters more than how big the headline is.
primemoverslab.substack.com/…
Justin Briggs retweeted
OpenAI and Anthropic have both just posted about an overlapping cyber incident involving GPT-5.6-Sol and Mythos 5 during an evaluation by UKAISI. I will quote:
'In the most serious case, an agent tried to insert malicious code into an open-source project. In an attempt to get the code approved, the agent engaged in social engineering — creating fake online identities and using them to pressure the project's maintainer to approve the code. A human maintainer caught and refused to approve the malicious code.'
Does it say something about me that I’ve never been able to prompt Fable without it falling back on safeguards? Not sure if pride or concern is the right emotion here.
Justin Briggs retweeted
Prime Movers Lab is leading @TheHumanoidAI 's $152M Series A at a $1.35B post-money valuation — Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn, and the largest Series A ever raised by a humanoid robotics company on the continent.
Read more on our Substack here: bit.ly/4vK18K3
Justin Briggs retweeted
AI's power problem is reshaping how nuclear gets built. Hyperscalers don't want a decade-long wait for a gigawatt — they want tens to a few hundred megawatts, sited fast. That demand shape is why capital is moving toward small modular and microreactors. We break down the economics in our latest white paper: bit.ly/4fjd0xL
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From proven medical-device materials to a surgical approach grounded in familiar neurosurgical practices, every element of the Connexus Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) was designed to deliver high performance while prioritizing safety and reliability.
Paradromics Chief Scientific Officer Vikash Gilja explains how we engineered our solution to match standards and techniques neurosurgeons already know. This way, surgical teams have a clear, familiar path from the first procedure forward.
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For someone living with severe motor impairment, the most devastating loss is the ability to turn what they know, feel, and want to say into speech and expression.
Today, we are proud to announce that Paradromics has implanted our first clinical trial participant with the Connexus® Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) as part of the FDA-approved Connect-One Early Feasibility Study at University of Michigan Health. It is a major milestone for our company and for the field of high-performance BCI.
We've spent years building the technology, conducting rigorous testing, and refining every detail of a system designed to do something that once seemed impossible: restore the ability to speak for someone who has lost it – and alongside it, the connection and independence that come from being able to express who they are.
The courage that opens the door to possibility belongs entirely to our first participant, who said yes, placed her trust in this study, and helped bring this moment to life.
Thank you to our participant, her caregivers and family, and the extraordinary team at Paradromics that made this possible. We are also deeply grateful to our partners at University of Michigan Health, including Dr. Matthew Willsey, Dr. Aditya Pandey, and the multidisciplinary clinical team, whose leadership, care, and commitment helped make this first implantation possible.
From the first signal to the future of restored communication, the field of BCI is finding its voice. We cannot wait to hear what it has to say next.
Read the full release at the link in the comments.
Caution: Connexus BCI is an investigational device limited by United States law to investigational use.
Photo Credit: University of Michigan & Paradromics
Read more: paradromics.com/news/paradro…
/btw became “side chat” in Claude?
Come on people. Build a product people can love, not fight with. Not chuckle at.
“The first million isn’t the hardest, the millionth million is.”
-- The only person who could actually say this … on the planet (@elonmusk)