founder & ceo @sorcerer_earth ex @sumup
Denver, CO
Joined August 2010
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crazy amount of atmospheric data that these things collect. wouldn't be surprised if they already have more low-level wind/precip/etc data than all of NOAA's current infrastructure combined.
Basically: the world is made of atoms, not words.
Language models ate cognitive work. World models will eat physical work. But esp. for world models that need to accurately represent earth physics, the data doesn't exist yet at the scale we need.
Data for the Real World
@sdianahu & @_austintindle
AI has become superhuman at code, language, and images because it has enormous amounts of data to learn from. But our understanding of the physical world is still limited by sparse sensors and models built largely on intuition.
Cheaper sensors and better foundation models could unlock entirely new datasets for energy, agriculture, logistics, construction, and the climate. Once you can accurately model the physical world, you can begin to control it.
We sell weather data to national met agencies. Anyone who's tried selling to the government knows the front door is broken. If Locke had existed two years ago it would've saved us months.
500k ARR in six weeks shows how badly companies need this. Congrats @parth_badhwar!
Today, we're introducing @lockeai_inc, backed by @ycombinator.
Locke is going to change the way companies and governments work together.
Our first focus: building our own AI-native government affairs firm. Locke’s AI agents and in-house lobbyists help companies monitor regulations, lobby policymakers, and win government contracts faster and cheaper than ever before.
Six weeks in, we've blown past a $500k annual revenue run rate and support clients across defense, healthcare, GovTech, and more.
Government is the largest market in the world - with the worst front door. Locke will be the company to change that.
Learn more at locke.inc or email [email protected] to get in touch.
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Today, we're introducing @lockeai_inc, backed by @ycombinator.
Locke is going to change the way companies and governments work together.
Our first focus: building our own AI-native government affairs firm. Locke’s AI agents and in-house lobbyists help companies monitor regulations, lobby policymakers, and win government contracts faster and cheaper than ever before.
Six weeks in, we've blown past a $500k annual revenue run rate and support clients across defense, healthcare, GovTech, and more.
Government is the largest market in the world - with the worst front door. Locke will be the company to change that.
Learn more at locke.inc or email [email protected] to get in touch.
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🌕 @gru_space is building durable space habitats so humans can one day live on the Moon and Mars.
Its first missions will mine lunar regolith to construct a long-term pressurized habitat on the Moon for commercial space tourism — a hotel on the Moon.
Congrats on the launch @skyler_chan_!
ycombinator.com/launches/P9g…
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There are bps of growth yet to be unlocked in every crevice of the economy. We spoke to a handful of the companies applying emerging technologies to lesser known frontiers:
→ @playdate: bringing joy back to handheld hardware with their crank-operated console
→ @atomic_inc: creating physical goods at the speed of bits
→ Light: building infrastructure for a future powered by renewable energy
→ Katalyst: techwear that intensifies your workout 6x
→ Archistar: accelerating permitting by 50% with AI
→ @Lucid_Bots: drones for dangerous cleaning jobs
→ @sorcerer_earth: collecting 1000x more data points for accurate weather forecasting
→ Masquerade: redefining live theater with immersive technology
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Brightband panel "Future of AI Weather" #NYCW2025:
youtu.be/Yw8TJXt6lAU
@juliangreensf @brightbandtech
@SciPritchard @NVIDIAAI
@rabernat @EarthmoverHQ
@DPearl_Reframe @Google
@_austintindle @sorcerer_earth
MC @maevemallsup @_LatitudeMedia
#Weather
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Introducing Odyssey—the largest and most performant protein language model ever created.
Odyssey enables scientists and researchers to generate and edit proteins, the workhorses of all life on this planet, towards specific functional ends—scaled to over 102 billion parameters.
We did it all with just a core team of 6 and an order of magnitude less funding than our next largest competitor. Here's how it works 🧵 (1/6)
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🎈@sorcerer_earth (YC S24) builds weather balloons that can fly for over six months, reach previously inaccessible regions, and collect 1000x more data per dollar than current systems.
Congrats on the launch, @_protopian, @maxmclau, and @big_veech!
ycombinator.com/launches/LdU…
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Your life can either be a German weather report or a Greek weather report.
Be the Greeks.
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It's one thing to wield the data, but you have to make it LOOK good!
Hear from NCEI's @jjrennie on the challenges that can arise just by making a single temperature map 👇
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Many stories could be told from this image alone, but probably the one that people most latch onto is the different levels of investment in on-the-ground weather monitoring between wealthy and poor countries.
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It may be too much to take in all at once, but h/t to @leonsimons for pointing me to NOAA ERSST V5 SST monthly data beginning 1854, current through March, 2024.
I included the 50 year average for 1900-1949 for good measure.
This really is the beginning of the end of everything.
Last year I started going regularly to a boxing gym across from my office. My coach convinced me to participate in a charity event, so I am now signed up for a charity boxing match to support @GirlsWhoCode! Details: secure.givelively.org/donate…
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GoodJobs: Work at companies trying to save the world
betalist.com/startups/goodjo…
I built a job board for companies trying to fix problems like climate change and food insecurity goodjobs.careers/