Archie: an engineering AGI for Dyson Spheres | P-1 AI | $23 million seed round

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Phew, I can finally share what I've been up to since last summer! We just raised a $23 million seed round!! πŸ˜… I co-founded P-1 AI w/ Paul Eremenko (ex CTO of Airbus, UTC) and Adam Nagel (ex engineering director at Airbus) with a mission to build an engineering AGI for the built world. Our vision is simple: we want to build an engineering AGI for the real world to help us design airplanes, Dyson Spheres, cars, HVAC systems, etc. Our system is called Archie. A big thank you to our VC Radical Ventures for leading our round (they backed up Fei Fei Li's startup and some of the best AI startups out there) as well as our other investors! Also a huge thank you to our angels Jeff Dean (Google DeepMind), Peter Welinder (VP of Product at OpenAI), and my other friends Bob van Luijt, Luis F Voloch, Waikit Lau, etc. who believed in us! And last but definitely not least the amazing team behind P-1 AI! We'll be rapidly expanding the size of the team. Our GPU cluster is humming in the background, join while it has free cycles. :P I'm hiring for cracked ML research engineers! Apply: https://p-1.ai/ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ * P-1 AI: https://p-1.ai/ * Fortune article: https://fortune.com/article/startup-ai-funding-starship-google-deepmind-airbus-veterans/ * BusinessWire article: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250425073932/en/P-1-AI-Comes-Out-of-Stealth-Aims-to-Build-Engineering-AGI-for-Physical-Systems β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ ⌚️ Timetable: 00:00 What are we building, raising $23 million seed 01:38 Demo starts! Load a design from file system 04:18 Modify the design's coefficient of performance 06:57 Modify the cooling power, under geometric constraints 09:00 Swap a compressor 10:28 Dealing with broken designs 11:40 Fixing geometric interferences 12:55 I'm hiring for Research Engineers, Backend and MLOps engineers β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ Huge thank you to these AI Epiphany patreons: Eli Mahler β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ πŸ“„ Website - https://gordicaleksa.com/ πŸ’Ό LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksagordic/ 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/gordic_aleksa πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘¦ Discord - https://discord.gg/peBrCpheKE πŸ“Ί YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAIEpiphany/ πŸ“š Medium - https://gordicaleksa.medium.com/ πŸ’» GitHub - https://github.com/gordicaleksa πŸ“’ AI Newsletter - https://aiepiphany.substack.com/ β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ #engineering #agi #dysonsphere #archie #p1ai

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