Co-Founder & CEO at @hulaearth Building Nature Intelligence.
Munich
Joined November 2018
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Every day, our distributed sensor network processes 15.6 TB of bioacoustic data.
So far: 33.6 years of sound analysed. 1.47 petabytes in total.
Nature is talking and @hulaearth is listening.
Data moats are more relevant than ever for startups building in AI. The harder to collect, the better. Everything else will be swallowed by the big boys.
Fable 5.2 shows substantially improved skills in controlling physical robots, even on tasks it has never explicitly been trained to do.
On RoboDojo, a benchmark with a simulated two-arm robot, it outperformed other models and most AI systems built to control robots.
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Weather radar sees the movement & our sensor network tells us who is moving. Fused together, we can monitor and predict species migration at scale.
Species activity truly adapting to the rhythm of our planet. Midsummer data from our sensor network in Germany.
Our sensor network shows Skylarks waking up 40 mins earlier in the north of Germany than in the south at Midsummer.
Daylight is the obvious driver of species behavior. Which other factors should we look into at country scale?
What's financially shocking: Mealybugs spread a virus that shortens vineyard lifespans. Many vineyards are now replaced after 20-25 years, while some well-kept old ones still produce after 100+ years.
That's $60 to 75k per acre for replanting, plus 3 to 5 years without a harvest.
Just learned today how wineries in Napa Valley use birds to control mealybugs, one of the main pest concerns of vineyard managers. Introducing measures to attract predators of mealybugs works as a natural pest control, almost for free.
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Just learned today how wineries in Napa Valley use birds to control mealybugs, one of the main pest concerns of vineyard managers. Introducing measures to attract predators of mealybugs works as a natural pest control, almost for free.
Austria is pushing back on EU Inc because it’s concerned that notaries and registries would make less money?
You must be kidding…
Ladies & Gentlemen, we have managed to get the @EUCouncil ' EU Inc files. The ones that matter. The ones where we see the position of Each Member state: including who pushed the notaries' agenda.
Buckle up and Repost. 🍿 Now if you are from those Member States, make some noise.
Directly or through associations, politicians. Enjoy the thread 🧵 1/
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Challenge & results: naturearena.ai/ai-for-nature
On Saturday, we hosted the first AI for nature hackathon.
This is what it looks like when 40+ builders take over the @hulaearth HQ and burn through free credits from @OpenAI, @Lovable, & @ElevenLabs 🌳🦉
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On Saturday, we hosted the first AI for nature hackathon.
This is what it looks like when 40+ builders take over the @hulaearth HQ and burn through free credits from @OpenAI, @Lovable, & @ElevenLabs 🌳🦉
Step 2 toward a nature foundation model: spatial generalization.
We’re teaching our model to see beyond its sensors. Bioacoustic ground truth + satellite data unlock species predictions at unseen sites. And every new sensor makes it better.
Best part: the model tells us where on Earth the next sensor matters most.
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Last week’s nature intelligence highlights:
- Bombadil, a foundation model that reads the electrical signals of plants, by @electricplantco
- BEANS-Next and ROOTS broaden audio-language models for bioacoustics, by @earthspecies
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First version is live, linking to existing benchmarks from the nature intelligence space. So far, we see benchmarks mostly split by disciplines.
We’ll add some of our own soon and move toward interdisciplinary tests.
naturearena.ai
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Feels like the funding landscape is shifting. Over the last months, the first funds have started to look beyond what's imaginable today. Beyond hyper revenue growth in AI from day zero, toward breakthroughs that could unlock a next wave like the one we're seeing right now.
Yet another AI concierge for hotels (has anyone counted how many already exist?) will not move the needle. Not for the fund, not for the market, and least of all for our trajectory as humanity. Contrarian ideas will.
Love how bets are finally getting bolder again.
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Way too many people in our hardware lab to kick off the nature track of #MunichClimateWeek. The AI for Nature hackathon on Saturday will be even more packed, I promise;)
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Nature intelligence needs its on playground.
That’s why we just bought a new domain: naturearena.ai
Which benchmarks should we add first?
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What killed me in previous companies was pace. Now we ship stuff in days, even in data science.
I get people hooked on a challenge on Monday and we have a first version on Friday. A bit of polish, and it's in production a few days later.
What a time to build ⚡️
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