Founder & CEO @astraquaai | Agentic Physical AI đ¤âĄ | Ex-NASA @Artemis đ #MarsHelicopter đ @NASAPersevere @blueorigin
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Loay Elbasyouni retweeted
This press release about a @NASA contract award has an interesting title. "Teaching Robots to "Feel Pain": AstraQua Secures $1.3 Million NASA Contract" finance.yahoo.com/technologyâŚ
Replacing people with AI isnât just about saving money. Itâs about getting work done without constantly chasing deadlines, asking for updates, or dealing with excuses. Accountability matters more than headcount.
Loay Elbasyouni retweeted
The US government will give your startup up to $1.55M and take 0% equity.
@NSF's America's Seed Fund is open again after Congress reauthorized it in April.
Three tracks:
- Phase I: up to $305K to prove the idea
- Phase II: up to $1.25M to build it
- Fast-Track: up to $1.55M, both phases in one go
Who can apply:
- US-based startups with 500 or fewer employees
- 51%+ owned by US citizens or permanent residents
- Not majority owned by VCs
- All the work done in the US
How it works:
- Send a 3-page Project Pitch first
- NSF invites the best ones to submit a full proposal
- Next full proposal deadline: Nov 4
Phase I funding rates have run about 10 to 20%. It's work, but nobody takes your cap table.
Application link đ seedfund.nsf.gov
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Why Your Self-Driving Car Canât Use the Cloud youtube.com/shorts/BBHumJ6L0⌠via @YouTube
He Helped Fly a Helicopter on Mars | Loay Elbasyouni youtube.com/shorts/XcMwpnpL1⌠via @YouTube
18 flight take 180 minutes to download of 4G network youtube.com/shorts/5nq_38kMh⌠via @YouTube
Why canât physical AI rely entirely on the cloud?
Lower latency, greater efficiency, and faster decisions require processing close to the action.
Life is too short to settle for âgood enough.â
Either make it great,
or ask yourself if itâs worth your time at all.
40 meters underwater. Visibility: 2 feet.
Never give up.
One of the hardest decisions in startup life is deciding who stays and who goes.
Itâs even harder when someone is top talent but doesnât have the drive, ownership, or sense of responsibility the company needs.
Talent matters. But in a startup, ownership matters more.
We shouldnât fear AI-generated code.
We should fear âlow-costâ systems using AI as an excuse to bypass decades of safety engineering.
Code generation isnât new. Aerospace and automotive have used model-based code generation for 20+ yearsâeven on systems that reached Mars.
The rule never changed:
Generated code is still verified code.
Use AI to write code 100x faster. Great.
But review it. Trace it. Test it. Verify it. Validate it.
No silent AI code. No untraceable behavior. No hidden backdoors in a safety-critical baseline.
AI can make software cheaper to write.
It does not make safety cheaper to prove.
Loay Elbasyouni retweeted
Today, with over 100 industry partners, we introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, bringing together OpenShell and Sentry.
Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come.
But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.
This is bigger than a single product. It's the beginning of an open ecosystem to build the trust layer for safe agent systems.
Together, we are building the foundation of the AI economy.
Trust and innovation are not in conflict. Safety is how trust is earned. We must build not only the most capable AI, but the most trusted AI, so that this extraordinary technology can realize its enormous promise for the world. nvda.ws/4hcoq7m
Funny how AI âhackingâ gets framed as research when the target is a government system.
Try the same thing against a private company.
Now itâs unauthorized access, preserved logs, subpoenas, discovery, damages, and lawyers asking who approved it.
Governments debate.
Private companies litigate. đ
That may be the fastest AI safety mechanism we have.