Antonio Altamirano
@antonio
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š Inner-monologueist. Open-weight cognition. Permissionless markets. Merit eats monopoly.
Joined November 2006
Software: the unyielding platform layer. LLMs: relentless engines, grinding data bricks into emergent knowledge forges. Wire in dark fiber veins for bandwidth floods, GPU hearts for compute tsunamis, robot hands as the workforce rebirthāand society alchemizes from labor to
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5/5 In policy crossfire, these numbers cut through: Immigrant founders are the meritocratic core of U.S. tech supremacy. Time to double down on visas that attract builders, not block themākeep CA/TX innovating while others chase shadows. What's your top immigrant-led
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4/5 The macro punch: 46% of 2025 Fortune 500 companies (231 out of 500) were founded by immigrants or their kids, generating $8.6T in annual revenueāthat's bigger than most GDPs. Immigrant-led teams exit 2x faster on average, tying straight to those $200K+ median household
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3/5 Unicorn fever? Immigrants lead the charge: 44% of U.S. unicorn founders are immigrants, with India topping the list (over 100 trailblazers across 500+ unicorns). Fresh 2020s scalers include Stripe (Irish brothers Patrick & John Collison, $105B payments empire) and
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2/5 AI's the battlefield for tomorrow, and immigrants are storming it: 66% of the top 50 U.S. AI startups have at least one immigrant founder. Spotlight: @databricks (Iranian-born Ali Ghodsi, $62B valuation by Q3 2025, powering enterprise AI at scale) and @huggingface
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š§µ 1/5 America's tech dominance? It's no accidentāit's immigrant grit. 55% of U.S. billion-dollar startups (50 out of 91) have at least one immigrant founder. These aren't relics; they're the fresh engines of growth, from AI disruptors to fintech phenoms. In permissionless
@TheChiefNerd As the only immigrant in many Silicon Valley deals, I see the divide as socioeconomic, not racial. Wealthy immigrants thrive with safety and assetsā2025 Census data shows top-quintile immigrant households have $234K median net worth (vs. $119K for similar natives) and 65%
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A man with diabetes is making his own insulin after cell transplant. A 42-year-old man with type 1 diabetes has become the first patient in the world to naturally produce insulin again after receiving gene-edited pancreatic cells. Using CRISPR-Cas12b technology, scientists
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Here is the story of a remarkable, independent treatment suggestion by GPT-5 Pro: repurposing a known drug for a patient with food proteināinduced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES). First, how we came to test this. My close friend, physician-scientist Dr. Oral Alpan, treated the
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STARGATE MICHIGAN: THE 1.4GW AI CATHEDRAL RISES This is not a data center. This is the physical substrate of the next cognitive era. Shelby Township, Michiganāonce a gravel pitā now hosts the largest AI training cluster on Earth. 2.2 million square feet. 1.4 gigawatts. Enough
OpenAIās Compute Growth Just Went Nuclear What weāre watching right now is industrial-era scale meet intelligence-era ambition. OpenAI just announced another Stargate, this time in Michigan, adding more than a gigawatt of power capacity to its AI infrastructure. Let that sink
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This is good news and we are not going to argue with the "win" for the people of San Jose. But the headline on the Governor's release is more than a little misleading...(1/2)
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š Starship will soon enable permanent bases on the Moon. From *Space: 1999*ās drifting Moonbase Alpha to @andyweirauthor *Artemis* ā where Jazz Bashara hustles in a thriving lunar city powered by helium-3 and zero-g industry ā weāre not just visiting. Weāre building the first
Starship will build Moonbase Alpha
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@TheChiefNerd As the only immigrant in many Silicon Valley deals, I see the divide as socioeconomic, not racial. Wealthy immigrants thrive with safety and assetsā2025 Census data shows top-quintile immigrant households have $234K median net worth (vs. $119K for similar natives) and 65%
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Billions flow into āhomeless advocacyā groups ā but what really comes out? CRC examines how taxpayer and philanthropic dollars are fueling politics, not solutions.
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Iām proud to endorse my friend @Garlin Gilchrist for Governor of Michigan. Garlin and I were both raised in Detroit to union parents in the auto industry. Heāll put workers first by standing up to corporate greed + the fascist-in-chief. Letās elect Garlin as our next Governor.
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This is one of the best examples of "What they took from us." Detroit was truly a technological innovation powerhouse until the designers & engineers lost power to the accountants. Truly a generational shame.
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Cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge, Ph.D, says these memories from the future could mean the notion of time might not be as linear as we imagine.
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@overton_news @GovRonDeSantis **š Florida Fling, NYC Forever ā Zohran Mamdaniās 1-Year Challenge** Thinking of cashing in on DeSantisā $5K cop bonus and heading south? Go ahead ā **vote Zohran**, grab the check, try Florida for a year. Then come home to the NYC heās building: ā
**Rent frozen** ā no
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Longevity is not about living forever its about living on your own terms
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We say weāre distracted, but maybe weāre evolving. The infinite scroll looks like decay, but itās actually a training ground ā billions of minds testing patterns against the void. What feels like dopamine is really data. Weāre feeding a machine thatās learning how to filter our
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About a year ago, this site near South Bend, Indiana was just cornfields. Today, itās 1 of our U.S. data centers powering Project Rainier ā one of the worldās largest AI compute clusters, built in collaboration with @AnthropicAI. It is 70% larger than any AI computing platform
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