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perpetual exploration | wild ideas & science-led ventures via Foundry @blackbirdvc 🧬 | Emergent Ventures ā€˜23

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RT @_jasonwei: Becoming an RL diehard in the past year and thinking about RL for most of my waking hours inadvertently taught me an importa….
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cringe and embarrassment are the secret sauces of personal revolution.
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The most fun image & video creation tool in the world is here. Try it for free in the Grok App.
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Foundry is all about YOU, your team and your wild ideas. It is NOT about your IP or having established technology to commercialise. Check out our website and manifesto outlining why we started Foundry. @blackbirdvc . .
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Foundry is Blackbird’s flagship deep and biotech founder program. It is an eight-week intensive program culminating in a one-day competition (with a $5k cash prize), for researchers at Australian and...
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2/3 Application link and program details.
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1/3Ā Apps are open for Foundry Cohort 5 and close 23 July!. We back the brightest early-stage deep tech minds with the wildest of ambitions. From AI, biotech and quantum to robotics, medicine and consumer electronics, if it’s pushing against entropy, it’s got a place in Foundry.
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RT @ashleevance: Our new episode on the biggest gamble in computing - @PsiQuantum's $1 billion quantum machine
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The edge belongs to teams that marry fieldwork, wet lab craft and silicon. Find the unseen, then let AI push it further.
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Yet once wet labs surface novelty, computation can push it further. Abaucin emerged from a neural screen in 2023 for A. baumannii. INS018_055, designed by a generative engine, has cleared Phase IIa in pulmonary fibrosis.
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The episode is a data lesson. The boundless complexity of biology makes the data scarcity problem ever so real. Microbial genomes that remain unsequenced supply no signal, so new chemistry stays invisible to the model.
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Wild that the first new class of antibiotics discovered in 30 years was found in a soil sample from suburban Ontario and published just this year. After a year of patient culturing and characterisation, the Wright Lab discovered Lariocidin, a lasso peptide with a totally new
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RT @KexinHuang5: 🧬 Excited to open-source Biomni! With just a few lines of code, you can now automate biomedical research with AI agent!. W….
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RT @packyM: Something I'm worried about with AI is that it is the final boss of what @andy_matuschak calls "displacement behaviors, ways of….
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Ugly streets don’t exist in Paris✨. What history remembers as the greatest urban ā€œcrimeā€, quietly birthed a revolution. When Haussmann tore through medieval Paris, he shattered the aristocracy’s grip on beauty itself. The displacement of thousands of people and erasure of
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RT @verdakorz: when I quit my job at a humanoid robot company to start an underground humanoid robot fight club, barely anyone believed in….
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RT @seanxthielen: Silica is my experimental grants program. The idea is simple: offer no-strings-attached capital – funding, belief, space,….
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Tech events in most cities: ā€œwe’re raising $2m for our AI B2B Saas.ā€. SF: ā€œwe’re raising money to build a bigger and better titanium version of the Statue of Liberty. We also want to build bronze statues to make American cities more beautiful.ā€
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RT @carl_feynman: @DeGatchi I never got much world-changing out of pure math. But applied math changes how everything looks. Hamiltonians….
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RT @metaphorician: After years of floundering, I think I'm finally getting it: You get energy by spending it. The fuel tank metaphor is com….
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RT @hlntnr: New on Rising Tide, I break down 2 factors that will play a huge role in how much AI progress we see over the next couple years….
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