X, The Moonshot Factory

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Get a rare look under the hood of Tapestry, Alphabet’s moonshot for the electric grid in this special live taping of Where the Internet Lives, the award-winning podcast from Google and Latitude Studios.   Tapestry is building the first unified model of the grid, helping grid planners and operators bring renewables online, optimize energy flow, and improve reliability. Latitude’s Stephen Lacey will interview Page Crahan, Tapestry’s general manager, to dive into four case studies where AI is being applied to urgent grid needs in the U.S., Chile, New Zealand, and Brazil. Register today ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gJ27gyRF #wheretheinternetlives #googledatacenters X, The Moonshot Factory

🤓 Introducing X’s Moonshot for Specialized Professional Intelligence! This team is building domain-specific AI infrastructure for specialized professionals like lawyers, doctors, and finance experts. Their moonshot is to catalyze a fundamental shift in the way professionals, who work with millions of sensitive and private documents, interact with information and harness the productivity benefits of AI. 📌 Learn more in the blog from Project Lead Thibault Vrevin: https://lnkd.in/gMaC6Cuf 🚀And the team is hiring! If you’re interested in helping build a moonshot from the ground up, take a look at our open roles here →  https://x.company/careers/

In collaboration with Open Robotics, NVIDIA Robotics, and Google DeepMind, we recently launched the AI for Industry Challenge - a global challenge with a $180,000 prize pool focused on a massive hurdle: dexterous cable manipulation in electronics assembly. Today, we're thrilled to announce the evaluation committee who will be reviewing your solutions. Register now to participate in this open global challenge where you’ll have your solutions reviewed by Wendy Tan White MBE, CEO of Intrinsic, alongside other industry leaders: • Amit Goel, Director of Product Management for Autonomous Machines, NVIDIA Robotics • Francesco Nori, Director of Robotics, Google DeepMind • Geoffrey Biggs, Chief Technology Officer, Open Robotics • Susanne Nördinger, Head of Ecosystems EMEA, Universal Robots • Dr. Zhe Shi, Chief Digital Officer, Foxconn These industry leaders will select finalists based on rigorous quantitative performance metrics that emulate real world industrial conditions. This is your chance to solve some of the hardest problems in manufacturing, with the best open tools, AI, and Intrinsic's platform. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ehdibZv2 #Robotics #AI #Manufacturing #NVIDIA #GoogleDeepMind #IntrinsicAI #InnovationChallenge

The biggest turning point in Astro Teller's career happened not from success, but from changing his understanding of failure. Today he views failure as a signal rather than a setback—and that philosophy helps inform his approach to taking moonshots. Hear more from X’s Captain of Moonshots on the Scientista podcast: https://lnkd.in/gwxfmnQ3

🌱 “We need to find the exact right plant to grow in the exact right environment, with the exact right inputs, to make a more healthy, sustainable, and equitable agricultural system.” Bradley Zamft, CEO of X graduate, Heritable Agriculture, describes how his team is transforming the future of agriculture on the #WhereTheInternetLives podcast. 📽️ Watch the mini-documentary from Where the Internet Lives to see how farmers can harness the same technology to feed the world better, with less and for less → https://lnkd.in/gE3cAdzE