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Everyone says they want to reindustrialize America, Jim + @sendcutsend are actually doing it.
We’re thrilled to lead their Series B as they scale the "Anything Factory" to more locations and new service lines, for customers building everything from bottle openers to rockets.
Okay it’s happening:
- Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now.
- Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now.
- Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network.
- Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM.
- Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon.
- More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically.
- Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027.
- Candy and merch budgets have been tripled.
…And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys.
Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel)
LFG!!!!! 🇺🇸
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(banking + cards + books + payroll) x agents = sick
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Hiring your first employee is one of the biggest moments for a founder. But payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance are far more complicated than they need to be.
Now with AI we can make the pain of payroll go away.
@Mercury Payroll* launches today!
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Mercury Payroll is live. You make the hire, Mercury handles the rest.
It’s AI-powered payroll with white-glove compliance support, built into your Mercury account. Try it today: mercury.com/payroll
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Hiring your first employee is one of the biggest moments for a founder. But payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance are far more complicated than they need to be.
Now with AI we can make the pain of payroll go away.
@Mercury Payroll* launches today!
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Hiring your first employee is one of the biggest moments for a founder. But payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance are far more complicated than they need to be.
Now with AI we can make the pain of payroll go away.
@Mercury Payroll* launches today!
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Okay it’s happening:
- Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now.
- Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now.
- Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network.
- Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM.
- Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon.
- More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically.
- Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027.
- Candy and merch budgets have been tripled.
…And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys.
Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel)
LFG!!!!! 🇺🇸
I'm back in Reno after a few days of visiting customers. Holy shit, I'm pumped. Now is the time:
I’m building the largest, fastest, vertically integrated manufacturing company in North America. Full-scale contract manufacturing that is accessible to EVERYONE.
- speedy like a startup
- millions of sq ft of capacity
- all the capabilities you need
- world class UI/UX/service/support
- High mix, low volume
- High mix, high volume
- Low mix, low volume
- Low mix, high volume
America is manufacturing again, and I'm gonna provide the engine.
Fuck it, we ball 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Scaling past a trillion parameters requires inference engineers to solve 3 issues:
- Width: Routing between hundreds of sparse experts
- Depth: Mixing global and local linear attention
- Length: Processing 1M-token sequences
I asked Ali and Bryce to draw it up. They delivered.
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Excited to announce @Mercury crossing $1bn/yr in revenue and 450k customers.
Just getting started!
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The future of AI pre-charting is more than a chart summary.
abridge.com/blog/the-future-…
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You buy / broker data short-term so you can build the most realistic and idiosyncratic RL envs and tasks for frontier labs medium-term so you can build evals, agentic systems, and custom models for enterprises long-term
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Full house at Benchtalk Boston for @nlarusstone unveiling Science Foundries, a new way to run scientific processes end-to-end with agents and scientists working as a team.
benchling.com/blog/introduci…
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1/ Starting today you can take actions on your @Mercury business and personal accounts right from your agent (ChatGPT/Claude/etc) via the MCP.
Our MCP already let you ask questions about your accounts.* Now it can move money too (with your approval).
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The Megawatt Machine makes its way to Georgia 🍑
Excited to partner with Central Georgia EMC, our first (but certainly not last) utility partner outside of Texas
Affordable reliability, coming to a neighborhood near you
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Central Georgia EMC, deploying 50 MW of residential battery storage across the cooperative’s service territory. It’s our first utility partnership outside of Texas.
The program gives @CentralGAEMC a networked fleet it can dispatch 24/7, adding local capacity to support the grid. Members get automatic whole-home backup for $95, with no additional monthly costs.
businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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agree this is the pattern inside many companies: frontier models for breadth, smaller open models for specialized tasks. our post-training team lives for this, happy to help.
We were able to fine tune an open weight model (Qwen3.5-9B) on proprietary internal data at @coinbase, and it out performed frontier models, at much lower cost and speed, for a specialized task (fraud prevention in this case).
I think we'll see more of this pattern inside companies. The frontier models are amazing generalists. But increasingly you'll see specialist models out perform on more narrow tasks, either working on teams, or by themselves.
We're making it easy to fine tune models internally for our employees. We even have a skill for it in our internal harness that makes it easy to spin these up and start training them:
"/fine-tune-and-serve-llm I want to fine-tune Qwen for payments risk review. help me get started"
I imagine we'll have some backend services that could be replaced entirely by this new architecture.
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Safety matters a lot to us at Baseten. As more teams build with AI, we want to give them the signals they need to ship great products with confidence.
We're partnering with @GoodfireAI to bring safety signals in line with inference. Goodfire monitors open models while they run on Baseten, so teams can move fast and stay in control.
Lots more to come!
Open models can come from anywhere. Securing them shouldn’t depend on where you get them.
Today we're launching Project Beacon to make safety a default for open intelligence.
We're partnering with @GoodfireAI to bring inference and in-line monitoring together for the first time, so safety signals are caught proactively.
Read more in our announcement: baseten.co/blog/safe-open-mo…
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Setting off to build the frontier safety stack for runtime in the open. And we’re already offering it to enterprise customers! As open models get increasingly capable, this will become one of the most important product offerings in the world. So excited to be partnering with @GoodfireAI on this
Open models can come from anywhere. Securing them shouldn’t depend on where you get them.
Today we're launching Project Beacon to make safety a default for open intelligence.
We're partnering with @GoodfireAI to bring inference and in-line monitoring together for the first time, so safety signals are caught proactively.
Read more in our announcement: baseten.co/blog/safe-open-mo…
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Open models can come from anywhere. Securing them shouldn’t depend on where you get them.
Today we're launching Project Beacon to make safety a default for open intelligence.
We're partnering with @GoodfireAI to bring inference and in-line monitoring together for the first time, so safety signals are caught proactively.
Read more in our announcement: baseten.co/blog/safe-open-mo…
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Progress that moves the frontier is almost never made alone.
We’re thrilled to announce All-Gather, our first-ever research conference that will bring together the brightest minds in research, founders, and engineers to join us for a day of debate and exchange.
Come hear Noam Brown, Sarah Guo, Horace He, Bryan Catanzaro, Jerry Tworek, Sabri Eyuboglu, Tuhin Srivastava, and many more debate pre-training, post-training, infrastructure, model performance, and emerging fields. Join us on November 18th in San Francisco.
Research has been part of our DNA from our early days of optimizing open-source models through our recent launch of Base Labs. We’ve grown with the open ecosystem, and we’re excited to keep building alongside it.
Space is limited, but we’d love you to join us. Apply here: baseten.co/all-gather/
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Oratomic has raised a Series B, bringing our total funding to $775M since our launch in March. We are on a focused mission to build a utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer.
Read more about our mission here: oratomic.com/news/mission
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