Solo GP @forewordvc. Early @Starcloud_ @AikidoSecurity @IsembardGroup @jeeves_inc + many more. 🇮🇪 in SF

Joined April 2009
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I started building Astrid 18 months ago & the first beta testers are trying it today It is an unashamedly MAXIMAL VIABLE PRODUCT, a new kind of tool that’s built to be live-adapted in every way as you use it Its goal: unlock the creative potential of open source AI! More soon
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In a rare annual suited appearance, I sat down with Gen. David Petraeus to discuss whether the U.S. military need a new service branch for AI? He believes we need draconian institutional change to fight the wars of the future. Wars that will be fought mostly by robots. Putting out the full conversation is out tomorrow.
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Would you like to spread factories across California? We are hiring for a General Manager for @IsembardGroup in California. You will setup the first factory in either SF, LA, SD or wherever else you are located. DM me if you know anyone great. Small seeds, mighty Sequoias.
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Starcloud is going to the moon! 🌚🚀 I'm excited to share that @Starcloud_ has signed an agreement with @FireflySpace to fly onboard Firefly's Elytra spacecraft in lunar orbit, validating capabilities for a future orbital lunar data center. Integrated on Elytra, Starcloud’s SC-1L processor, including the @NVIDIA H100, will ingest data from Firefly’s onboard Solux vision system, perform high-power AI computing on orbit, and rapidly transmit the processed data back to Earth. The demonstration builds directly on our recent AI computing demonstration in low Earth orbit, extending those proven capabilities into lunar orbit, a strategic priority for both @NASA and the @USSpaceForce.
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Earlier @elonmusk mentioned the first @Starcloud_ mission at the @WhiteHouse 🙏😃🚀
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Excited to announce our $110M raise to scale our stablecoin-native banking platform for global enterprises across 35 countries (10 new countries!) 🚀🦁 Our stablecoin business crossed $1.5B annualized volume in just 8 months, driven by exponential enterprise demand. Since signing the Series C-1 term sheet, revenue has grown more than 50% in a few months. The pace is accelerating. As we go deeper into the stablecoin ecosystem, I'm pumped to have @coinfund lead the round, joined by @AB_insights, @a16z, @cbventures, @CRV, GIC, @gpt, @paraficapital, Vista, @wmt_ventures, @ycombinator and others. Also grateful to have the best founders building in the space joining the round: @zcabrams (Bridge, OUSD), @psneville (Circle, Catena), @sternhenri (Privy), @prabhakar2reddy & @karan705 (OpenFX), @SamBroner (Better Money Co.) and Ricardo Marino (Global Chairman at Itaú), among others. Over the last year, AI & stablecoins have powered us to an inflection point. Today, we have fewer employees than we did two years ago, while revenue and volume have grown more than 10x crossing $5B in annualized TPV. AI is embedded across Jeeves and has fundamentally changed how we build and operate. Alongside the round, we're launching: 💸 Jeeves stablecoin wallets: Our custom built wallets supporting USDC and USDT, with payouts to 190 countries, all in one platform. 💳 Cards in 10 more countries: Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Panama, Guatemala and others. The same award winning expense management platform used by BMW, Burger King and H&M are now available in these markets. 🧾 Accounts Receivable (AR): Alongside our core Cards and AP modules, we're launching our AR module, starting with Brazil 🇧🇷 This was one of the biggest customer requests! 📊 Jeeves Global AI Spend Tracker: We all know AI spend is growing but if you operate in six countries, with Claude spend in pesos & OpenAI spend in pounds, how do you actually know what you spent across models, countries, currencies & what drives ROI? Well now you do with our Global AI spend tracker across the globe 🌎 🇪🇸 Lastly, we opened our doors in Madrid to accelerate our expansion across EMEA, with a focus on stablecoin payment corridors between Europe & the world. The next decade of global banking will be agentic and seamless between stablecoin and fiat. To build this companies need to own the primitives directly. This chapter is being written right now, and small teams with big ambition, powered by AI and stablecoins, will write it. We intend to be the company that defines it 🌎 Thank you to our customers, teammates and investors for the trust you put in us every day 🙏 If you want to shape the future of global money at the cutting edge of stablecoins and AI, come build it with us. It won't be easy but it will be fun 👉 tryjeeves.com/us/about-us Day one of this next chapter starts now. It's time to build.
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Trace.Space launches Trinity: the AI harness that makes scaling physical AI possible. Hardware teams have the ideas, the funding and working prototypes. What slows them down is finding out, weeks too late, what a change broke. See Trinity live on October 8.
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btw we named the model "altar" after the Ghent altarpiece... For those who don’t know, Aikido is from Ghent, Belgium. Our city is home to The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, completed in 1432. Why is it famous?
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🚨ThinkingCap: Qwen3.8-27B is out! The most token-efficient Qwen3.8 27B available, this time optimized for agentic use. 🚀 Up to 65% fewer thinking tokens, 37% on average 🎯 Minimal accuracy loss 📈 Long-context retrieval actually went up 2.3pp 📄 Blogpost: bottlecapai.com/post/thinkin… 🤗 Hugging Face: huggingface.co/bottlecapai/T… 🔗 GGUF: huggingface.co/bottlecapai/T…
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Human-animal communication? Life on other planets? Alien priests? Once again back trying to bring a more eclectic discussion of the future to the internet with a new series of Forecast 2050. Thanks to David Gruber (@ProjectCETI), Gen. David Petraeus, Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_), Yi-Ling Liu (@yilingliu95), Laura Kreidberg (@lkreidberg), (@mpi_astro), Walter Goodwin (@fractile_ai), Sir Robin Saxby, Francesco Sciortino (@proximafusion), Adrian Woolfson (@AdrianWoolfson), Frank Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis), and Father Brendan McGuire for joining us. First episode with Father Brendan McGuire, Catholic Priest & External Advisor to Anthropic’s Claude Constitution, drops on Thursday. More to come!
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nice to start seeing more open-weight security model with defensive capabilities which are close to the frontier altar-1 from Aikido is a pruned and quantized version of the open-SOTA GLM 5.3 which is lightweight enough to fit on one 4-H200s node
Introducing Altar-1, our first open-weight security model. Frontier-grade defensive AI, built to deploy. Own your own security.
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I'm excited to announce Altar-1, our first open-weight security model. The first of many to come from @AikidoSecurity's wider investment in applied AI research to advance the performance and accessibility of security intelligence for all.
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XO 2.0 is live. The YouTube of Prediction Markets. → Convictions: anyone can create a market from $10 → Liquidity Rewards: $1M in USDC, paid daily → MODRA: our AI resolution engine now settles markets autonomously The market you want to trade doesn't exist? Now you create it.
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Introducing Altar-1, our first open-weight security model. Frontier-grade defensive AI, built to deploy. Own your own security.
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Isembard is looking for the best and brightest to build the new industrial base. isembard.com/uk/#join
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🏠 🛸 in RWC
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Isembard Founder & CEO @AFitzgerald1992 shares how the company is building a new industrial base involving software, talent and franchising: "Rather than go set up a McDonald's franchise, you could go set up and own your own factory making rocket parts." "There's that scene from the Founder, that movie about McDonald's, where he's like, 'What makes an American town is the flag, the church house, the courthouse,' and he was saying the McDonald's, but my argument is it'll be an Isembard factory." "There's this product layer of products, whether it's an Apple iPhone or a drone. They all need to be made by the component manufacturing layer." "90% of the components in all these critical industries are made by small, medium-sized businesses." "We're building a new industrial base through, one, software robotics; two, really talented people; and then third is actually like our unique business model, which is franchising."
Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)
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This team is building at an insane pace - can’t wait to visit! Go Alex & @IsembardGroup 💪
Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)
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Isembard is building big things. We’re opening our new UK headquarters, the biggest factory in central London since World War II. Watch the full film: youtu.be/BWwD-n05KlE
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Today @IsembardGroup is launching the largest factory to open in London since WW2. (1/n)
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