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With Planet’s AI app, users can combine the power of AI with near-daily satellite data to explore what’s happening on Earth, uncover insights, and better understand change at scale.
This is a glimpse into the future of Planetary Intelligence: transforming the world’s most comprehensive Earth data into actionable intelligence.
Sign up today, in open beta now: ai.planet.com/?utm_campaign=…
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Incredible to see these real-world applications of our agentic AI app @StarCatcherInd!
If you're interested in diving deeper, explore the open beta here ➡️ ai.planet.com/
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🌌 AI applied to Earth observation.
@planet operates the largest constellation of Earth observation satellites. However, processing the data into workable images corrected for the physics and geometry of orbit may take hours.
Now, meaningful images can be obtained in seconds (sped up 100-300x — including decompression, orthorectification, and AI analysis) which can help identify wildfires and other disasters quickly.
🔗 blogs.nvidia.com/blog/earth-…
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Future companies will be small and largely employee-owned!
Small teams of around 10-20 people will own multi-billion-dollar corporations. Everyone will be a part-owner and supervise super agents.
These super agents will, in turn, create and run multiple specialized tasks and sub-agents from an AGI control center!
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Most people are still running scarcity scripts from a world that’s already obsolete.
What’s happening right now (in AI, in energy, in materials, in biology) is the shift from allocation to creation. But our political and cultural systems were built for managing scarcity: who gets what slice, not how to expand the pie. When those systems meet exponential tech, they panic. They see threat instead of possibility.
The tragedy is psychological: if you believe the world is zero-sum, abundance looks like chaos. But if you believe intelligence and coordination can grow, abundance looks like the next stage of civilization.
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vocations of the near future:
1) novelty hunter
2) pattern-matcher
3) shaman/visionary
4)" idea guy"
if you’re all of them your future is bright
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The German nuclear fusion startup Proxima Fusion, which works on a smart AI-assisted stellarator concept, has published a (peer reviewed) paper about their design and open-sourced their software.
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Naval Ravikant: “The future will be almost all startups”
“I firmly believe that the efficient size of a company is shrinking very rapidly, and so the future will be almost all startups.”
In the clip below from a 2012 interview, Naval speculates that information technology will reverse the centralizing force of economies of scale following the Industrial Revolution.
“I think the contract work trend is going to increase, and I think the size of your average company is going to decrease. I think we’re going to see more and more billion dollar businesses built by four or five people, and it’ll stay at that.”
He doesn’t think we’ll see many more companies like Facebook or Google with tens of thousands of employees:
“I think any entrepreneur worth their salt could today build Facebook with a few hundred people… Facebook and Google are in the situation that large companies end up in where the founders know that 80% of the people are not really needed, they just don’t know which 80%.”
Video source: @PandoDaily (2012)
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Eric Schmidt says in one year there will be AI "super mathematicians" and combined with superior programming skills this will lead to AI scientists that will increase the slope of progress such that the country or company that is the first mover will have a monopoly on innovation for some time
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this whole idea of humans as ceos with ai agents as automation reminds me of automation in aviation—specifically, the boeing vs airbus philosophy divide. boeing prioritizes pilot primacy: automation assists, but the human is always in control. airbus, on the other hand, leans heavily on automation, assuming the systems know better than humans, especially in edge cases.
what’s interesting is how these design choices define the nature of failures. boeing’s approach tends to fail because of human error—pilots are overwhelmed or make bad calls under stress. airbus failures, though, often stem from automation overreach—the system acts in ways the human either doesn’t understand or can’t override. both approaches have their tradeoffs, but the core question is: how much control do you delegate, & how do you make sure the human can step in when it matters?
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CES 2025 just started, and we’re already seeing incredible tech.
Here're 20 most impressive reveals of CES 2025 so far:
1. Halliday Glasses: 3.5-inch AI smart glasses
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Releasing METAGENE-1: In collaboration with researchers from USC, we're open-sourcing a state-of-the-art 7B parameter Metagenomic Foundation Model.
Enabling planetary-scale pathogen detection and reducing the risk of pandemics in the age of exponential biology.
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A Nerdy Math Post 🤓
Did you know that 2025 is an incredibly special year mathematically?
Here are some fascinating insights:
1.A Perfect Square:
2025 = 45^2.
It might be the only perfect square year you’ll witness in your lifetime! The last one was 1936 (44^2), and the next won’t come until 2116 (46^2).
2.Digits in Harmony:
2025 is also the square of the sum of its own digits!
(20 + 25)^2 = 45^2 = 2025.
3.Sum of Cubes:
2025 is the sum of the cubes of the first nine natural numbers:
1^3 + 2^3 + 3^3 + 4^3 + 5^3 + 6^3 + 7^3 + 8^3 + 9^3 = 2025.
4.Decimal System Perfection:
It’s also the square of the sum of all digits in the decimal number system:
(0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)^2 = 45^2 = 2025.
How cool is that?
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Sparse autoencoders on protein language models have features aligned with known biology, but also apparently real functional motifs that are previously uncharacterized. Claude was able to explain these features. Really cool research from @ElanaPearl @james_y_zou
