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Happy 6 months to @MTSlive!
A quick recap, some thank yous, and two jobs below that you should apply for:
In our first 180 days, we've interviewed over 1,000 guests, grew to 600K followers, crossed an 8 figure run rate, covered dozens of conferences around the country, and moved production from a 160 sq. ft. conference room to a new 12k sq. ft. office (come see it before we need to move again!)
There's been tons of work behind the scenes going from 1 show to 3 (and maybe 4 or 5 by early next year?) that we're excited to launch soon.
I'm so grateful to build MTS alongside @liangsays. If you've ever met him, you'll understand that he is the definition of founder-market fit to build a massively successful media company.
A huge shoutout to our founding team and hosts @theojaffee @schisofrenia @sophiadew @netcapgirl @knowerofmarkets who left real jobs with 401ks to talk on X for 8 hours per day, post 75x/day, figure out how to operate cameras, and get yelled at by hundreds of internet strangers when our audio drops for 10 minutes (sorry, guys). The amount of talent + willpower this team has is unmatched in my career.
Thanks to all of the incredible guests and comms teams we've worked with. Reminder: [email protected] if you want to come on the shows.
And biiiiig thanks to our founding partners @databricks @ElevenLabs @vercel @chargebee @blitzyai @Lovable @AdQuick @MongoDB @Larridin @kong @fundrise @FactoryAI @arena
If you'd like to join the MTS team while it's still a fledgling little startup media company, there are two high priority roles this week:
1. Short-form X/Reels/IG clip editor (SF preferred, remote ok)
2. Markets Host (out of our new NY office)
DM me if either are interesting.
Thanks for following along (insert not reading all that meme/happy for you/sorry meme) and see you on the timeline
Flapping Airplanes co-founder @aidanmantine explains why OpenAI or Anthropic reaching superintelligence first wouldn't mean the end of AI research:
"What we’re a bet on is that the age of research is not dead."
"Coding is this very narrow domain where it’s easy to verify what’s going on, and you can just scale the thing. Basically, no one I know programs anymore. Myself included."
"Models are still not that great at creating new research ideas. The fact that data labeler is a job, and a growing job even, indicates that there’s something wrong."
@flappyairplanes
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
MTS retweeted
thank you @JonathanWebbKY coming on same day for industry news
prosperity one is kentucky's 1st commercial nuclear plant. it's a 6.6 gw campus with up to 6 ap1000 reactors. excited to grow our coverage on nuclear energy
attached video from @TheNuclearCo:
The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY reveals why Kentucky coal country beat 1,500 other sites for a massive 6.6 GW nuclear project:
"This is our beautiful campus of Prosperity One, about 4,000 acres on the Ohio River."
"Growing up in a coal state, seeing a lot of the coal plants shut down, we got a need for power in the region. Behind me, there’s the 765 kV line. It’s the largest transmission line in the country, and it connects us to PJM, which is the entire Northeast. And the Ohio River’s got about six times the amount of water we would need for the reactors."
"We’ve looked at about a dozen states, met with governors, and looked at about 1,500 properties. Today’s the day that we’ve officially announced the project to the world."
@TheNuclearCo
Flapping Airplanes co-founder @aidanmantine reveals how he attracts top AI talent by trying to talk candidates out of joining his own lab:
"When people interview with us, we counter sell them a ton. If they wanna go work at OpenAI or Anthropic, they should go do that. You should go to Flapping Airplanes if you wanna be part of the last age in human history where you can do research."
"It's really easy to go into a big org and hide under the floorboards. At Flapping Airplanes, you own this thing that's really important. This project will live or die on your success."
"We've had some people inbound us who are very radically different, like a Clash of Clans world champion, who you interview and you're like, holy crap, this guy is really smart."
"We have lots of IMO medalists, but also lots of IMO medalists are maybe not the best machine learning people."
@flappyairplanes
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
MTS retweeted
thank you @aidanmantine for pulling up same day and sharing the news on mts industry news!
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
Flapping Airplanes co-founder @aidanmantine explains why treating GPUs as "just a math machine" wastes their potential:
"We look at GPUs and we say, how do you go under the floorboards? We don’t use Torch. We don’t use NVIDIA’s normal CUDA runtime stuff. We don’t use NCCL. We basically have built everything from scratch."
"This means we can do some really crazy stuff like have your experimental training models run at the highest level of a production inference stack at a big lab. The systems guys sit next to the post-training guys next to the pre-training guys."
"The GPUs are blessedly a really flexible substrate. There’s so much that can be done with them, and yet everyone’s like, I don’t know, it’s just a math machine. What a waste. We really see a lot more potential in the GPUs than other people."
@flappyairplanes
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
Flapping Airplanes co-founder @aidanmantine explains why your brain’s slow wiring is a clue to making AI much smarter:
"How slow do you think it is to go from one side of the brain to the other? It takes 150 milliseconds. In a GPU you’re talking about microseconds. It’s not even close."
"In order to even get that latency, your brain has to pull some unbelievable bullshit. And it’s tapping out at 150 milliseconds. That’s so slow that you would not be able to watch this video if it was streamed at that frequency."
"Everything fits to the hardware that it’s given. Everything is downstream of the primitives that you give it. By unlocking the GPU primitives, we can make models that are much smarter than today’s."
@flappyairplanes
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
Blue Ocean Materials founder @lucasme_12 explains why El Segundo feels like Silicon Valley in the ’80s:
"You’re seeing these founders tackling these very hard problems where we have no playbook. El Segundo feels like what I imagine was Silicon Valley in the ’80s."
"There’s no career path. Who do you mimic? How do you create a Valar Atomics? How do you make it rain like Rainmaker? It’s just a bunch of mavericks trying to solve these problems."
@BOMaterials
FULL INTERVIEW: Flapping Airplanes just raised a $1B Series A after rebuilding the GPU stack from scratch. Co-founder Aidan Smith says they don’t even use Torch, NCCL or CUDA’s normal runtime. One kernel on one B200 can now train a model, serve inference and play Doom at the same time.
@aidanmantine, Thiel Fellow and 3-year Neuralink alum, co-founded @flappyairplanes. He joined @sophiadew and @theojaffee to break down why AI needs to learn more like the brain, how they rebuilt the GPU stack, and who they hire:
00:30 where the name Flapping Airplanes comes from
02:04 why they bet on data efficiency
03:07 what Neuralink taught him about AI
04:27 how slow your brain actually is
06:06 why not just emulate the whole brain
08:40 why they rebuilt the GPU stack from scratch
10:33 compute overhang and safety
12:56 can a neo lab win if the big labs hit RSI first
14:27 what ML research looks like when no one writes code
15:40 why DNA, robotics and trading are data-starved
18:41 how they hire in the AI talent wars
21:17 the models they might ship first
Coherence Neuro CEO @WoodingtonBen reveals the terrifying discovery that your brain can communicate with cancer tumors:
"I came in as an engineer like, okay, it’s just the engineers’ time to cook now. The deeper I went, the more I learned how little we actually know about how the brain functions."
"My co-founder Elise came up to me and was like, have you seen this concept that cancer interacts with the brain and the nervous system? I had no idea. And it turns out, up until about 7 or 8 years ago, no one had any idea."
"When you have a tumor in your body, it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It forms communication networks with your body, with your brain. Your brain is talking to the cancer, using the same language. That is both fascinating, and should be probably quite terrifying as well."
"We felt like brain tumors are relatively well understood. Nope. There’s this entire fundamental dimension of brain tumors that we knew nothing about until about 8 years ago."
@coherenceneuro
We’ve raised a $45m Series A, co-led by
@foundersfund and The @OpenAI Startup Fund, to build cancer therapy that learns. Technology is rapidly changing medicine, but data loops and rapid adjustments are still largely missing. When you start cancer treatment, knowing whether what you’re doing is working is too slow. Clearly there is a better way. Build systems to watch cancer in real time, then feed that data into a system that itself can treat the disease. This seeds a future where, unlike drugs, we develop medicine that continuously learns to improve itself. We've been building neurotechnology and BCI platforms to do just that.
@coherenceneuro
Coherence Neuro CEO @WoodingtonBen reveals how a Neuralink-like brain implant could be used to fight cancer:
"Sci-fi is the word that everyone goes to, but it’s not. This is the future we’re living in now."
"It’s a brain interface that we use in brain cancer. We leave it behind at time of surgery. It allows us to control tumors, and it allows us to record the electrical activity from them to predict what’s happening inside the body."
"It’s a tiny little glass implant the size of your fingertip, with these thin thread-like leads that come out the front."
@coherenceneuro
We’ve raised a $45m Series A, co-led by
@foundersfund and The @OpenAI Startup Fund, to build cancer therapy that learns. Technology is rapidly changing medicine, but data loops and rapid adjustments are still largely missing. When you start cancer treatment, knowing whether what you’re doing is working is too slow. Clearly there is a better way. Build systems to watch cancer in real time, then feed that data into a system that itself can treat the disease. This seeds a future where, unlike drugs, we develop medicine that continuously learns to improve itself. We've been building neurotechnology and BCI platforms to do just that.
@coherenceneuro
MTS retweeted
i'm covering top funding & product announcements, daily from 1-3 on @MTSlive
here's what we covered today:
- @aidanmantine from @flappyairplanes raised $1B series A
- @WoodingtonBen from @coherenceneuro raised $45m series A led by founders fund and oai
- @JonathanWebbKY from @TheNuclearCo announced prosperity one, a new 6.6 gw nuclear campus
- and many more
The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY warns China is winning the nuclear race:
"I wanna be clear to everyone in nuclear that might be listening, you’re a friend, you’re an ally. We got one competitor and it’s China, and they’re winning."
"This country is gonna build micro, it’s gonna build small, and it’s gonna build large reactors. This site is gonna show the world that we can build big things again, and we can cut costs, we can cut schedule. We won’t compromise on quality or safety."
"We will have teams of men and women actively out on this site starting next week doing confirmatory analysis. CSX rail runs to the Port of Norfolk, getting ready for all the materials that’ll be coming in on the rail and on the barge."
"We wanna partner with the nuclear community and show the world that not only China can deploy gigawatts of nuclear. We can do it in the US and we’re gonna do it right here in Eastern Kentucky."
@TheNuclearCo
The Nuclear Company CEO @JonathanWebbKY reveals why Kentucky coal country beat 1,500 other sites for a massive 6.6 GW nuclear project:
"This is our beautiful campus of Prosperity One, about 4,000 acres on the Ohio River."
"Growing up in a coal state, seeing a lot of the coal plants shut down, we got a need for power in the region. Behind me, there’s the 765 kV line. It’s the largest transmission line in the country, and it connects us to PJM, which is the entire Northeast. And the Ohio River’s got about six times the amount of water we would need for the reactors."
"We’ve looked at about a dozen states, met with governors, and looked at about 1,500 properties. Today’s the day that we’ve officially announced the project to the world."
@TheNuclearCo