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John McCormick retweeted
Humanity needs to unlock fusion energy to enter the atomic age, and that is why Fuse exists: to accelerate the world's transition to fusion energy.
John McCormick retweeted
This deserves more attention. The free world desperately needs more ballistic and hypersonic missile interceptors.
Thank you Long Wall for doing God’s work. Congrats on the $75M contract @danpiemont .
John McCormick retweeted
The holy grail for robotics is being able to generalize: doing work in unseen places
We rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and are doing tasks without any new training
John McCormick retweeted
BREAKING: Blue Energy plans to build the world’s first gas-to-nuclear power plant at a massive Texas inland port with direct access to the Gulf and the nation’s inland waterway network.
Blue Energy has submitted the first part of its NRC construction permit application for the project, which would pair GE Vernova gas turbines with GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors.
The large power-generation campus will start with natural-gas generation, followed by the buildout of SMRs.
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John McCormick retweeted
Thank you to our customers and investors for supporting us, and all our Impulse employees for building an awesome company!
We've raised an additional $308M to continue expanding our team, products, and facilities as we accelerate humanity's future beyond Earth. This raise brings our combined Series D round to $808M, continuing a period of significant growth for our company.
We're scaling because our customers need more than just access to space, they need to be able to move dynamically once they're there. That's why we're building vehicles that can maneuver precisely, respond quickly, reach new destinations, and adapt on orbit.
We're excited to continue building a full spectrum of in-space mobility capabilities for the space industry.
Read the full announcement: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…
John McCormick retweeted
Figure just crossed 86,000 weekly active users uploading data
We're building the largest and most diverse robotics dataset in the world
The website has a live map viewer showing each pixel of data as it's uploaded around the world
John McCormick retweeted
Announcing Poseidon Aerospace's $60M Series A, led by TQ Ventures with participation from JAWS, Hanwha, G Squared, Starship Ventures, Drover Ventures, and others.
At @poseidonaero, we are building the future of air logistics with autonomous cargo planes designed and built from the ground up.
John McCormick retweeted
Today Hark is announcing a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA with gigawatt-scale compute capacity on next-generation Vera Rubin platforms
Hark is building multimodal systems that remember who you are and what you plan to do. Our work with NVIDIA will support frontier model training and delivering the everyday interface of AI to our customers at scale
John McCormick retweeted
It’s time to build
“This industry needs more power generators than PowerPoints.”
JC Btaiche, CEO of startup Fuse which just raised $100 million to build and commercialize fusion generators, says the US needs to bring "Silicon Valley speed" to the fusion race as China invests heavily in the technology bloom.bg/4xTyzLN
John McCormick retweeted
Investors have made so much money funding American startups that there's essentially an unlimited supply of capital for the next good idea. It's one of America's greatest competitive advantages.
John McCormick retweeted
"Tom Mueller is driving his candy green Porsche Taycan Turbo S the way he builds rocket engines: with a terrifying amount of instantaneous thrust..."
Before titles like "the godfather of rocketry" were tossed in Tom's (@lrocket) direction, there was an engineer with a penchant for the impossible.
@elonmusk came asking, "Can you build something bigger?"
Tom spent the next two decades answering it, redefining what was considered possible, and helping lay the foundation for a generation of spaceflight that the world is still catching up to.
It's impossible to tell the story of modern spaceflight without Tom's story. And it's impossible to tell the story of its future without Impulse.
Forbes brings it all together ⬇️
forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2…
John McCormick retweeted
Tom Mueller was SpaceX’s first employee and built the rocket engines that helped make Elon Musk’s space empire possible.
Now, the billionaire engineer has a new bet: Impulse Space, a startup racing to build the fast lane for satellites, cargo and eventually people after launch.
My latest feature story in @Forbes takes a look under the hood of Mueller's grand ambitions in the emerging space economy. forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2…
John McCormick retweeted
"As launch costs fall and satellite deployments accelerate, demand is rising for vehicles that can reposition spacecraft between orbits, deliver payloads deeper into space and service satellites already in orbit."
Read more via @Reuters 🔗reuters.com/business/autos-t…
John McCormick retweeted
Another big milestone for Impulse Space. It's wild that they've raised over 1B, backlog is a pig pile, products are improving at an accelerating rate.... yet, and I think this will only reveal itself in time, we will look back at this moment in history and view it as small ball for them. Its a privilege to back this company and team.
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We've raised a $500 million Series D to continue solving the next big challenge in space: movement beyond launch.
With over $1 billion in total capital raised, our team and our production are scaling aggressively to accelerate humanity’s future beyond Earth.
Read more: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…
John McCormick retweeted
We've raised a $500 million Series D to continue solving the next big challenge in space: movement beyond launch.
With over $1 billion in total capital raised, our team and our production are scaling aggressively to accelerate humanity’s future beyond Earth.
Read more: impulsespace.com/updates/imp…
John McCormick retweeted
Figure is the Apple of this generation
Impeccable taste and design that will permeate every household
You won’t want some budget humanoid, you’ll want a Figure
John McCormick retweeted
Today I'm excited to share that Hark has raised $700M at a $6B valuation
When I use these AI models today, they feel basic. They should be able to listen and talk naturally, understand vision, retain persistent memory, and become deeply personalized over time. They should be able to see the world, interact with it, and take action
To build that future, the capital we raised today will be used to:
→ scale our GPU infrastructure
→ accelerate future AI model development
→ grow the Hark team from ~70 to 200 engineers
→ design and build the next generation of AI hardware
The Series A round was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from NVIDIA, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global
At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world. Intelligence that begins to think like you and sometimes, ahead of you to offload your mental workload
John McCormick retweeted
I got to cut the ribbon for Earth AI's lab back in March for being its champion on the board. When queues got longer at the 3rd party lab last year I asked a simple question...
"Is there any reason we can't do it ourselves?"
Our bias for vertical integration comes from the need for speed.
It's why we built our own analytics lab at @earthaiexplore. We'll now test _months_ faster than the rest of the industry.
As one of our advisors who spent 10yrs at SpaceX likes to say, "Cut the drag shoots!"
John McCormick retweeted
The only way to win is to become inevitable.
Thank you to @SenatorHeinrich for highlighting Fuse yesterday in Senate testimony and recognizing the role of public-private partnerships in accelerating fusion energy.
Fuse is firing shots on our generators today and continuing to bring online commercial facilities accelerating the progress towards high yield fusion facilities.
We look forward to continuing our partnerships with @LosAlamosNatLab and @SandiaLabs and supporting our U.S. national security partners on the path to commercial fusion power.
cc. @NNSAWilliams @NNSANews @ENERGY