Earlier @elonmusk mentioned the first @Starcloud_ mission at the @WhiteHouse 🙏😃🚀

It is 2050, AGI has replaced 99.99% of jobs, every disease has been cured, fusion is solved. Soyuz is still flying

We’re gonna launch to the stars. It’s time. 80,000 years to get there is an excellent starting point. There will obviously need to be a faster v2 🔥

Gwynne is suggesting we rebrand data centers to super compute.

For those saying we wouldn’t be know what to look for to see a Dyson sphere in a far galaxy, how about this? We can see >1 trillion galaxies. This is what one would like a few hundred thousand years into hitting super intelligence and starting to build Dyson spheres. I’m not even joking, I hope Roman finds something like this in the hundred billion new galaxies that it is about to observe.

Cool concept.

Did you know that humanity has never launched a spacecraft to another star? That is about to change! I'm super excited to share that my cofounders, @AdiOltean, @EzraFeilden, and I, have created a non-profit to attempt to send humanity’s 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿… and we need your help! We have formed a non-profit called The @FermiExplorer Mission with the goal of launching a minimum viable spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, leaving in 3 years and arriving in around 80,000 years. We hope it will be both the first spacecraft to leave Earth for another star, and the last to arrive, as per this concept video! The mission is intended to make the idea of interstellar travel real, and to encourage more people to confront one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions when we look beyond our planet: "Where is everybody?" (the Fermi Paradox) The mission has four high-level objectives: - Aim: To launch the first spacecraft to another star. It should get at least 99% of the way to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within 80,000 years. - Payload: It should have at least a 1kg, 10x10x10 cm payload. - Schedule: It should launch before the end of 2029 - Cost: It should cost less than $15M to design, build, launch, and operate. The mission was planned with the help of the folks at @astrodigitalgeo, @MattGialich and the folks at @AstroForge, and @alexwg+@matthew_pines physical AI lab PSI, who devised the final mission profile. The mission will be executed by full-time program manager @GarrettJameson, who joins us after 10 years as a US Air Force Officer, in collaboration with a US bus manufacturing partner that will be selected over the coming months. We will need your help to complete the mission, so if the idea of the mission excites you, please check out the Fermi Explorer website in the comments to find out more about why we are doing the mission and how to get involved! Thanks to London Studio @ZeroOneCreative and @ashkan01C for producing the concept video 🙏🙏

I'm super excited to share that we have raised $250M at a $2.3B valuation to build a LOT more AI compute capacity in orbit 🚀 Thanks so much to our supporters, including Manhattan West, who led the round, and new investors, @NVIDIA, @Cisco_Invests, @CedarCapital, Goanna Capital, and @Standard_Cap, as well as continued investment from existing backers @Benchmark, @EQTVentures, @Soma_Capital, @NFX, @SevenSevenSix, and others. Next week, @Starcloud_ will move into a new 100,000 square ft facility that will enable us to ramp up our production rate to 100 satellites/week. This is just the beginning! @EzraFeilden, @AdiOltean🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️

Plots of empty desert could soon be worth more than the most fertile farmland in human history. @CJHandmer ran through the back-of-the-envelope math. 10 acres of solar is enough for 1 MW of H100s. And the FLOPS done by those H100s is roughly equivalent to 1000 human brains. If we build models that match human performance per FLOP, we could produce 100 humans' worth of cognition per acre of solar. And that's just the floor. Today's chips are far less energy-efficient than the brain, so the actual number could be bigger still by >50x. The implied land value is insane. The clear incentive would be to use up almost all the world's land for solar.

Plots of empty desert could soon be worth more than the most fertile farmland in human history. @CJHandmer ran through the back-of-the-envelope math. 10 acres of solar is enough for 1 MW of H100s. And the FLOPS done by those H100s is roughly equivalent to 1000 human brains. If we build models that match human performance per FLOP, we could produce 100 humans' worth of cognition per acre of solar. And that's just the floor. Today's chips are far less energy-efficient than the brain, so the actual number could be bigger still by >50x. The implied land value is insane. The clear incentive would be to use up almost all the world's land for solar.