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Crypto’s role in monetizing obscure power resources in far-flung corners of the globe is underappreciated in the AI buildout
Siberian and Bhutanese bitcoin walked so Paraguayan and Kazakh compute could run
Seeing a lot of zero-sum commentary about this out of Europe
And yet just yesterday I noticed a German tour group in awe of the cars and humanoids in Tesla showroom
American tech is wondrous
Alex Laplaza retweeted
I have been working with a team for the past year on a new autonomous surgery company. It is one of the most talented groups of people I have ever found.
We believe that new medtech is best developed in the field with surgeons. We are looking to hire our first CDE (clinically deployed engineer): a scrappy, high candor individual who wants to sit in the operating theater with our surgeons and help define the software and hardware that will reinvent this entire part of the economy.
If that person is you, or if you know that person, please send me a DM.
We will be saying more about this company in the month ahead.
Alex Laplaza retweeted
Its an honor to bring water via cloud seeding to the arid Jordan Valley
Rainmaker’s technology is developed and manufactured in America 🇺🇸
Now operated with Jordan’s best engineers 🇯🇴
Jordan is global leader in cloud seeding thanks to @mwigovjo & @USEmbassyJordan ! More soon!
سلطة وادي الأردن توقع اتفاقية مع شركة Rainmaker الأمريكية لمشروع تعزيز الاستمطار والهطول المطري في شمال الأردن
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Alex Laplaza retweeted
Rainmaker has raised $100M to become the world’s best lab for weather modification and atmospheric science.
Thank you @noavctech @upfrontvc @DCVC @lowercarbon @DreamVenturesVC and other visionary partners.
We are aggressively hiring and scaling our research org to create a flywheel of atmospheric data collection, synthesis, understanding, and intervention.
We will solve the weather and we will set the stage for the terraformation of Earth.
More in my essay below.
First I was annoyed with myself that Ryan beat me to writing about some ideas I've been chewing on for months
But then it quickly became clear I could've never written with the same clarity (and beauty) that Ryan does here.
Phenomenal writing, even better thinking.
I wrote an essay about why the next frontier for AI is the world outside the data center
Nature is a system more complex than anything we've ever created
AI can learn how the system fits together, so we can finally understand how to shape it
How?
naturalgeneralintelligence.a…
Alex Laplaza retweeted
Today we are proud to announce our $100M Series B.
With this fresh round of capital we will hire the best researchers and scale our operations to build Rainmaker into the world’s foremost lab for weather modification and atmospheric science.
By 2030, 40% of global water demand will go unmet. The most vital, critical resource for life on our planet will, within three years, be unavailable to nearly half of the people and places that need it.
Yet, at any given moment, the atmosphere holds enough water to meet annual global demand three times over. If only we could look up … and bring that water down.
For more, read @ADoricko’s announcement below, and enjoy footage from Rainmaker’s summer research deployment in Alaska, shot on beautiful 16mm film.
Alex Laplaza retweeted
I wrote an essay about why the next frontier for AI is the world outside the data center
Nature is a system more complex than anything we've ever created
AI can learn how the system fits together, so we can finally understand how to shape it
How?
naturalgeneralintelligence.a…
"Geoengineering" and "Terraforming" really mean the same thing, and yet the public responses to them are so wildly different because geoengineering is Gates-coded while terraforming is Elon-coded
Alex Laplaza retweeted
Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations.
We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data.
In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall.
Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months.
We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need.
Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim.
Rainmaker Century.
rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
Alex Laplaza retweeted
Kinshasa-Brazzaville has the most sci-fi looking geography of any place on Earth and 20 million people live there
2023 is likely the first time in human history that global fertility fell below replacement rates
2023 is also the year powerful AI went mainstream worldwide
It's increasingly hard not to feel like these two tectonic shifts inflecting in the same year isn't some cosmic design
Alex Laplaza retweeted
Today we're announcing @_panthalassa’s $140M Series B, led by Peter Thiel, with participation from John Doerr and many other incredible investors. The mission: unlock the ocean as another planetary-scale energy resource for humanity. First stop: compute.
Fun fact: in the 90s, Steve Bannon (yes, that one) was the Acting Director of “Biosphere 2”, an experiment to test the viability of a closed ecological system to support human life in outer space
Alex Laplaza retweeted
Mankind has always been at the mercy of the weather.
No longer.
Rainmaker is the first company in history to routinely, unambiguously, modify the weather.
Last quarter, we produced >143MM gallons of unambiguously man-made precipitation.
Here’s how we do it 🧵
