.@BradPorter_ and John Giannandrea on why one research paper could make models ten times faster, and what it takes to move AI from research to deployment.
youtube.com/watch?v=uekZyIZd…
Vinod Khosla retweeted
We started Arda in 2025 to speed up American manufacturing. We have spent the last year building with Anduril as our design partner. Today we are launching the company publicly on CNBC and announcing our Series A: $160M at a $1.5B valuation.
Our platform helps manufacturers design and operate manual assembly lines, putting designs into production faster now. Next we'll build automated lines that can be reconfigured as quickly as human workers, letting America make products that now require armies of workers in Asia.
Vinod Khosla retweeted
thrilled to co-lead this round with @vkhosla @SStrohband @khoslaventures . @bobmcgrewai is a singular leader, and we in the US could not be more fortunate he’s applying his energy to improving American manufacturing. congratulations!
We started Arda in 2025 to speed up American manufacturing. We have spent the last year building with Anduril as our design partner. Today we are launching the company publicly on CNBC and announcing our Series A: $160M at a $1.5B valuation.
Our platform helps manufacturers design and operate manual assembly lines, putting designs into production faster now. Next we'll build automated lines that can be reconfigured as quickly as human workers, letting America make products that now require armies of workers in Asia.
Yes. Kristina was a great chief of staff
It is intense, always on, fun, never boring, but fulfilling/ rewarding. Not for the faint of heart, not for your average person, not the average VC, but for someone who wants to take on a lot + a ton of responsibility to do and build awesome things in the world with someone who has a relentless mission.
Jokes aside honest truth is this job has no specific hours requirement but is intense. I work 80 hours/week and this person needs to keep up. Doing, learning & more.... and very fun
i have no horse in the race here - but to everyone trashing the 8am-8pm requirement, availability weekends and nights, and 3 year commitment...
this is the tacit/unsaid requirement of every job I have ever had that had real growth, learning, and ownership baked into it. the only difference is VK is being explicit about it in the JD
Vinod Khosla retweeted
Wow the new roadster looks quite amazing, good job @elonmusk
I'm hiring my next Chief of Staff. You won’t know every field I work in. What matters is how quickly you learn, the questions you ask, and whether you can think from first principles. You’ll help evaluate opportunities and work with founders building consequential companies. Technical background preferred. Three-year commitment. Menlo Park, in person. Apply: jobs.ashbyhq.com/khoslaventu…
Vinod Khosla retweeted
Q>1 is one of the most important milestones on the path to fusion power. But what does it actually mean? Alex Creely, Chief Engineer of ARC, breaks it down in simple terms.
Fusion has the potential to unlock a huge amount of clean energy. But first, a fusion machine has to prove it can make more energy than it uses. That’s what Q>1 means. We put power into the machine to keep the fusion fuel incredibly hot, and Q>1 happens when the fusion reactions give off more power than we put in.
It’s not the only thing a fusion power plant needs — but it’s a crucial first step.
#FusionEnergy #Energy #Physics #Science
Vinod Khosla retweeted
Nabiha has assembled a smart team that lowered the price of cell preservation. Certainly worth considering before you go in for cancer chemotherapy.
In partnership with Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla), I’m proud to introduce Reservoir.
Billionaires have owned their cells for years. Starting today, you can too.
Sign up today: withreservoir.com
In 2012 I said machines would do 80% of what doctors do. Many were furious. Now AI out-diagnoses doctors in study after study. Is printing organs on demand next? Having your own stem cell repository is next generation "planning".
@cellinobio is building autonomous foundries that make personalized stem cells with AI and lasers. Your cells age every day. Preserve your immune cells with @withreservoir. Excited to back @nabihasaklayen, @madridmarinna & team.
In partnership with Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla), I’m proud to introduce Reservoir.
Billionaires have owned their cells for years. Starting today, you can too.
Sign up today: withreservoir.com
Robots making rapid progress in "learning to learn"
Time to repost my 2017 blog and my 2017 blog "AI scary for the right reasons" when China dismisses AI dangers and Putin says whoever wins AI, rules the world. These are the biggest dangers of AI though AI going wild is also a real danger khoslaventures.com/posts/ai-…
Agents will either be the corporate's agent with the consumer as the "product" they sell (as Muse will be) or be the consumer's agent (as in Fo) truly looking out for the consumer's interest.
exponentialview.co/p/meta-mu…
.@spectral_hq building systems to deliver engineering business value through design, analysis, manufacturing, and sourcing.
True
This is the capital of robotics! 🌁
Silicon Valley is home to so many physical AI companies that you could spend a month visiting them and still not see even 10% of them (trust me, I tried).
So, the Bay Area is the world's leading ecosystem for robotics startups, bringing together top AI talent, top universities, experienced founders, and unmatched access to capital.
The region is anchored by Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley, two of the world's top universities for AI and robotics. They produce a constant stream of researchers, founders, and breakthrough technologies.
The Bay Area is also home to many of the companies shaping the future of robotics and AI, including @Figure_robot, @physical_int, @GeneralistAI, and major AI labs such as @OpenAI, or @GoogleDeepMind.
This concentration of talent makes it easy for startups to recruit experienced engineers and collaborate with leaders in embodied AI.
Not mentioning that it is also home to leaders such as @NVIDIARobotics, whose headquarters and leadership in AI chips power much of today's robotics revolution, and Tesla, whose work on autonomous driving and humanoid robots has created a deep pool of robotics, AI, and manufacturing talent.
Perhaps its biggest advantage is access to capital, talent and ambition.
The Bay Area has the world's deepest network of venture capital firms, serial entrepreneurs, and technical leaders who are willing to fund bold, long-term robotics companies.
In the comments I'll post the companies from the ecosystem.
‼️ Note that Bay Area has >300 robotics companies, research labs, and innovation hubs, so this is a curated selection of the notable product companies, not an exhaustive census!
P.S. I'm constantly working on improving these maps, so if your company is missing, please DM me with basic info about the co, and I will include it in the next release.
P.S.2 I have last open slots for my December RoboTour in the Bay Area, if you want to create content together and show the world what are you cooking, dm! :)
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Congrats
Fo is the top 3 agents in Forbes for this era of personal agent startups, and the youngest, fastest growing, startup to have blazed this list.
Fo is also the only one that has human tastemakers and operators in the loop to get things done in the physical world, not just the digital world as well as continuously flywheel itself and make the agent magical.
We don't think super-intelligence will remove humans, we think super-intelligence that is safe, private and comes with it's own AI-human team will win the future.
forbes.com/sites/annatong/20…
Always great talking to bright young entrepreneurial talent. I get energized.
Last night was one of those special evenings. I had the pleasure of welcoming my friend @vkhosla and 20 of the brightest students in the country into my home.
We had candid, wide-ranging conversations about AI, politics, cybersecurity, biotech, materials science, physical AI, and the future of technology.
Vinod shared an extraordinary depth of knowledge and challenged conventional thinking.
Everyone left inspired and even more optimistic about the future.
Thank you, Vinod!
Time to put on your thinking caps!
we've raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, DST Global
to build the world's most wearable BCI cap at Sabi
read more here:
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