The lunar economy is upon us and AI may have peaked too soon.
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Just like a 20-something year old millennial with a liberal arts degree, welcome to the newsletter that is still figuring out what it wants to be when it grows up.
(that got awkward, huh?)
Anyways, here are today’s curated stories from the industry to get your day started.
(1/2) “We now have the platform for a lunar economy.”
Intuitive Machines
Intuitive Machines (IM) is developing a lunar economy with NASA-backed communication and navigation systems around the Moon.
Goal: Create a lunar network supporting NASA's Artemis missions and commercial lunar activities.
Funding: IM has secured a $4.8 billion NASA contract for building and operating a constellation of lunar satellites to provide data relay and navigation. (FYI their ticker is LUNR - just saying)
Services: With three Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) missions in progress, IM will offer lunar delivery, infrastructure, and data services, with continuous connectivity for crewed and robotic missions.
Vision: CEO Steve Altemus sees this as the foundation for a sustainable lunar industry, supporting everything from exploration to resource utilization on the Moon.
(2/2) Peaked too soon?
OpenAI
AI Models Facing Limits: As AI models like OpenAI’s GPT continue to grow, they encounter issues with compute cost, complexity, and environmental impact, signaling a need for new approaches.
Seeking Smarter, Efficient AI: Competing firms and researchers are exploring alternative methods, focusing on enhancing the cognitive abilities of AI, including improved reasoning and real-world decision-making.
Collaborative Efforts: Companies like Anthropic are pursuing innovations beyond the current deep learning model. They aim for systems that integrate better safety, energy efficiency, and more “grounded” decision making.
The Future of AI: The industry is moving toward models that are bigger, smarter, and more environmentally sustainable.
Here’s a great recent video of the founder talking about the early days (literally a few years ago) of OpenAI.
(Snippet from the Blog)
a very bad explanation of databases
Excel is great for many things and is like the gateway drug to learning about databases. However, for a complex needs, it’s a weenie hut jr solution. What you need is a database. More specifically, a relational database.
In Other News…
Boston Dynamics created a robot that can actually work on its own. Like actual physical labor. Here’s the video.
This company makes huge stuff and has a huge CNC machine to do it.
The US is at risk of falling behind China in the modern space race. China might put people back on the moon before we do.
This is kind of a funny interactive article on the current state of robotics.
Want to print stuff on your floor? Boy, do I have an article for you.
The 3D printed rocket company may not be doing too well. Yet another disappointment out of the 3D printing camp.
Quote of the day
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
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