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E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
Technical report is out. Covers a lot of detail on how Beam was trained.
Beamโs model technical report is now available. Read the full report to learn about the methodology our team used to train Beam end-to-end in-house, here: reflection.ai/documents/beamโฆ
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
Flyby Robotics have multiple customers working in environmental conservation and weโre especially proud of our work helping our oil and gas customers reduce emissions. We look forward to shipping more drones to protect our environment and support green energy objectives nationwide.
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
There is a full show coming soon about the origin of REK and our competition made by @corememory in which I am seemingly the anti-hero.
It's going to be amazing.
Starcloud-1 might be the Telstar moment for orbital compute.
In 1962, Telstar proved that communications infrastructure could move into space.
A year ago, Starcloud showed that AI compute could follow.
Congrats @PhilipJohnston @EzraFeilden @AdiOltean and the entire @Starcloud_ team!
Exactly a year ago today, we launched Starcloud-1 to space. To celebrate its birthday ๐ฅณ, we have put together some previously unseen footage we have from around the launch. I particularly like the footage we have of the @Starcloud_ kids! ๐
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Starcloud-1 is operating today with the only @NVIDIA H100 in space, still the most powerful SI compute on orbit. With it we became the first entity to do training and high powered inference on orbit, and we now have 3 more launches coming up in the next year! We are planning to move almost all compute off Earth ๐
See the careers page on our website if you want to join this awesome team!
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
BREAKING: Inside Starcloud, the $2.3B Startup Putting Data Centers in Space
FACTORY TOUR - Redmond, WA
Primes quoted them $75M-$100M to build their first data center in space. They did it for $2.5M.
In just 21 months, Starcloud is one of the fastest companies to go from founding to orbit.
With $450M in total funding from Manhattan West, Nvidia, Cisco, Benchmark & EQT, the team walks me through their mission for AI in space.
I toured the new HQ w/ CEO @PhilipJohnston + co-founders @EzraFeilden & @AdiOltean
AI compute on Earth is limited by power & permitting. @Starcloud_ is moving it to orbit, where solar power is nearly constant. Philip says the dawn-dusk orbit alone could fit about 10 TW of compute, roughly 20x the entire US power grid. Once launch costs fall below $500/kg, he says compute in space will be cheaper than on the ground.
From Starcloud 1, Starcloud 2, to Starcloud 3, we saw:
Tracking Starcloud 1 live in orbit, circling Earth every 90 minutes at 17,000 mph with the first Nvidia H100 in space.
Co-Founder & Chief Engineer Adi Oltean walks through Starcloud 2 as the team fires the latches that deploy its 120 ft solar wingspan. It launches in January with 100x the power of Starcloud 1.
Co-Founder & CTO Ezra Feilden shows the 16-ton secondhand vibe table. The team bought it for $200K, instead of paying $1.5M & waiting 2 years for a new one, they rebuilt it over a weekend.
Engineering Manager Bailey Montaรฑo leak checks the ion thruster after vibe. Bailey designed the radiators, which have 10x less mass & cost 500x less per watt than the ISSโs.
In the fab shop, Ezra shows the Starcloud 3 demonstrator, a 2-ton, 235 kW vehicle that fits 50 to a Starship.
Camilo Lopez cuts stainless on the laser cutter.
Engineering Operations Lead Miguel Rivera, formerly of Helion Energy, teaches me to MIG weld.
The tour ends in the new campus, about 100,000 sqft built to produce 100 satellites a week toward an 88,000-satellite constellation.
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(00:00) Philip Johnston, Co-Founder & CEO of Starcloud
(00:53) Tracking Starcloud 1 live in orbit
(02:46) Fixing a 16-ton vibration machine in one weekend
(06:59) From founding to orbit in 21 months
(08:17) From SpaceX to Microsoft to Starcloud
(09:49) Inside Starcloud 2
(13:12) A $15M mission to the nearest star
(17:49) What goes on a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri
(19:10) Why SpaceX could be worth $100 trillion
(20:41) โThis isnโt a hot take, this is just a fact
(24:22) How big is Starcloud 3?
(26:41) How do you book a ride to space?
(30:11) How Starcloud tests in zero gravity
(33:49) Can GPUs survive space radiation?
(35:46) The first AI model trained in space
(38:40) Will solar satellites block the sun?
(40:57) How Starcloud tests a satellite for launch
(46:45) The paperwork behind a launch
(53:07) Molly puts her welding skills to the test
(1:00:18) The engineer behind Starcloud's radiators
(1:03:07) Inside Starcloudโs new campus
(1:05:55) Why launch slots are the new scarce resource
(1:06:45) Can someone shoot down a data center in space?
Biocompute is real! @BioComputingCo
today, we introduce a little mischief to the world.
for four years, weโve been brewing real brain cells on electrodes to understand how they compute. now, weโve turned those discoveries into a video model anyone can use.
from 0.5ยข a second, mischief 1 is at least 5x faster than its base and the cheapest image-to-video model on @fal and @OpenRouter. soon to be on @awscloud marketplace.
itโs not a delusion anymore. biocompute is real, commercial and this is just the beginning.
happy halloween.
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
So, we have made something truly awesome. For 18 months, we've followed the rise of robot fights in SF and beyond. The result is an 8-part docuseries. Part drama. Part tragedy. Part comedy. A very human story with robots in between.
youtube.com/watch?v=SXo3vqC7โฆ
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
In this demo, Beam built a real-time weather satellite tracker with Mirror, our open source harness, using publicly available orbital data. It fetches live positions, tracks coverage, and renders orbits on a 3D globe.
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
My second interview with @SauravShroff_, Founder & CEO of @StarpathSpace.
0:10 SpaceX has no competition
4:52 Owning a launch monopoly
7:02 AI data satellites
16:33 Starting a launch company
18:54 How AI sats change launch dynamics
21:25 Reducing the cost of space solar
30:35 Scaling space solar capacity
39:48 Building AI data sats
47:00 Moon base
48:44 Maximum Starship production ramp
54:06 Mars base
RT @reflection_ai: We ran ~1.3 billion sandboxes in our largest RL run for Beam - spanning RL training, evaluation, and ablations. With evaโฆ
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
We are serious about making energy cheaper
If you make a list of teams that have a real, honest shot at making energy 10x cheaper, Valar belongs in the top 5 from a third-party perspective. First startup to split an atom, make power, etc
Dig deeper and youโll find that itโs #1
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
We just served 1 trillion tokens of Beam in 24 hours. To celebrate, we've reset everyone's limits.
Go build something big ๐ platform.reflection.ai
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
Beam weights are out today (Apache 2.0 license).
We integrated Beam across 40+ different partners.
And are also open sourcing Mirror CLI - the harness Beam was trained against.
Happy building.
Beam is now available across platforms, with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license - in collaboration with an ecosystem of 40+ partners.
We're releasing:
- Weights, tokenizer, and reference implementation
- BF16, FP8 and NVFP4 weights and a DFlash2 drafter
- The open source harness we built and trained Beam on: Mirror CLI
Weights and model card on Hugging Face: huggingface.co/reflection
E1 Ventures ๐บ๐ธ retweeted
You can support Ben and his family here:
Thanks to my partners @tryramp, @deel, @AppLovin for donating $100,000 each to Ben and his family.
If you can help in any way please do so here on this GoFundMe:
gofundme.com/f/help-ben-fighโฆ
