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@TIME just named the @ExowattEnergy P3 one of the Best Inventions of 2026. 🔥
When we started Exowatt, people told us the answer to AI’s power problem was already decided: more gas, more batteries, maybe nuclear someday. We thought the answer was sitting right above us.
The P3 is modular dispatchable solar. Custom Fresnel lenses turn sunlight into high-temperature heat. That heat goes into a long-duration heat battery , our "rocks in a box". And when the grid needs it, day or night, the heat is turned into electricity.
This recognition belongs to the Exonauts, who took an idea most people called impossible and turned it into hardware shipping off a production line. You showed up every day to bend light, store heat, and prove the doubters wrong. Thank you!
The sun delivers more energy in an hour than humanity uses in a year. We’re just getting started on using it. ☀️
@TIME #BestInventions #AI #DataCenters #Energy #Exowatt
👋 Meet Atoms (@AtomsHQ)
📍 HQ: Los Angeles, CA
👥 Leadership: Travis Kalanick (@travisk)
🌐 Website: atoms.co
🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Atoms builds physical automation to transform industry and move the world. Everything in our civilization is mined, grown, manufactured, and moved. Atoms develops the robotics, software, and infrastructure that automate these physical systems.
💸 Round: $2B+
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So excited to be a part of this and continue backing @jimkxa and his badass team at @tenstorrent !!
After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
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After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.
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AI chip startup Tenstorrent, after attracting takeover interest earlier this year, has raised $1.5 billion from investors in a funding round that boosts its valuation to $6.2 billion, according to a statement provided to Bloomberg News. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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We raised $1.5B to deploy Galaxy globally.
Thanks to our lead investors Trace Capital and Innovation X for backing that growth.
More to come: tenstorrent.com/newsroom/ten…
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Excited that @ProtagonistXYZ is investing in @fab2 as part of their $500M Series A.
What @szeloof and team are building is beyond ambitious, and we’re thrilled to play a small part in what we believe will be a massive success story.
Congrats to the entire Fab2 family. Let's GOOO 🚀
👋 Meet Fab2 (@Fab2)
📍 HQ: Austin, Texas
👥 Leadership: Sam Zeloof (@szeloof) and Jim Keller (@jimkxa)
🌐 Website: fab2.com
🚀 Vision & Opportunity: Fab2 designs all the hardware and software needed to make chips. They build the fabs, tools, and components themselves, then use automation to drive novel process engineering.
💸 Round: $500M Series A
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UK’s largest medical imaging firm raises $220m before flotation talks thetimes.com/business/compan…
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Small drones with bad intentions are causing most casualties in combat and attacking civilian infrastructure far from any front line.
Mara raised $7M, led by @khoslaventures, to shoot them all down, and fast, with the world's cheapest counter-swarm.
Thank you @Forbes for the coverage. Read more at: forbes.com/sites/davidprosse…
Shout out to some of our other incredible investors active on X: @speedrun @miamishor @sdamico @palmdriveVC @Zee_Prime_Cap
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Exowatt's CEO spoke with @themotleyfool about the AI boom's power problem, and how we plan to fix it.
Give it a watch to learn about our technology and what a sustainable AI campus could look like by 2030: youtube.com/watch?v=TDGO7L9v…
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Let us know what you think about our new site 😎 protagonist.co
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Introducing Grok 4.6.
It delivers frontier intelligence and is a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price.
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🚨 JUST IN: @USMC has awarded Epirus an $11M contract for the High-power Microwave Autonomous Vehicle Operational Capability (HAVOC) program.
Epirus will deliver a sled-mounted HPM system for universal integration with manned & unmanned ground vehicles.
Learn more: epirusinc.com/press-releases…
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July @roam Investor Update
***Third consecutive month of accelerating growth***
+6.9% ARR vs June
+100% ARR YoY
+27 logos, 1138 paying customers
+5.7% Meetings MoM
+9.1% Chats MoM
+112% NDR
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"To power America with solar, we’d have to cover the entire country in panels."
It's one of the most common energy myths.
In the premiere of Exowatt Explains, CEO Hannan Happi breaks down the actual math behind land requirements.
#SolarEnergy #CleanEnergy #AIInfrastructure
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IG Group Holdings plc announces that it has agreed to acquire Underdog!
Underdog CEO @JerLevine: “With our own exchange and by joining IG Group, we're going to take an incredible leap in what we can offer customers, and make Underdog the place to make predictions on sports, and beyond. IG Group’s scale, expertise, resources and reach are going to unlock our potential, expand what we've built, and bring our products to more audiences.”
Press release here: iggroup.com/~/media/Files/I/…
👋 Meet Prometheus
📍 HQ: San Francisco, CA
👥 Leadership: Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) and Vik Bajaj (@vik_bajaj)
🌐 Website: prometheus.ai
🚀 Vision & Opportunity: AI for the physical economy, developing artificial intelligence tools that improve the engineering and manufacturing of physical products in the fields of computing, aerospace, automotive, and more.
💸 Round: Series B
