Antonio Altamirano
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Antonio Altamirano
@antonio
Silicon Valley Founder



Insane stat of the day: California almonds use roughly 3–5.5 million acre-feet of water per year, depending on methodology. That's ~4-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.




Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought. You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.


Antonio Gracias, the founder of Valor and a longtime Elon Musk ally, controls a 7.3% stake in SpaceX, making him the second-largest holder after Musk himself that will earn the investor a giant windfall bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


Dario Amodei: Ideology Won't Survive the Reality of AI "We're going to find that ideology will not survive the nature of this technology. The things I'm talking about are gonna become bipartisan and universal because everyone will recognize the necessity of it." — @DarioAmodei





Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.






