
brom
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brom
@therealbrom
Founding partner at @XEIA_VP Building Human 3








@UseMissionCtrl has been working on something new that I'm very excited to share with you. We want to save the 1,000,000 years of industrial expertise that retire per day. To do that, I'm proud to introduce you to Bob, our first hardware device. youtu.be/llwWwxrQA1I

At @XEIA_VP we’ve discovered the true NOzempic longevity hack. My co-GP-now-husband was complaining that I was making “too many treats” near our wedding in December. According to him, I helped him gain 30 pounds. Seen left, buzz lightyear Brom in peak nesting form. Seen right, six months later. It seems that beer, swimming, sun, staying up late, and the occasional vape sesh seem to be working wonders. We’ll keep you posted on his progress.

Corgi single-handedly is the best coworking cafe/space in my opinion. I’ve been in SF for a week now and couldn’t find anything better than this cafe. It’s 11 PM Friday night in SF, and this is the vibe at Corgi Cafe. They offer high-protein smoothies (42g), with Chipotle and Subway nearby. The cafe is open 24/7 and has good WiFi. What else do you need?? Gonna miss this energy and place in NYC so much


SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible. The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.

We got exclusive access to the startup building BCI’s for brain cancer survival Two Cambridge engineers, @WoodingtonBen & @Elise__Jenkins, taking their SOMA-1 implant to human trials this month This episode profiles @coherenceneuro and their Palo Alto research lab (featuring a live BCI mice demo) to learn about this new form of cancer treatment Chapters 0:00 What is glioblastoma cancer? 3:17 Meet the founders - Ben & Elise 5:55 Inside the SOMA-1 device 6:56 How Coherence Neuro started 9:35 Why this technology is needed ASAP 11:22 Live Demo: Inside Coherence's Lab 14:53 Why MRIs (and other current tech) isn't good enough 15:50 When will patients have access to SOMA-1? 17:30 A future where cancer isn't terminal


Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways. Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil. Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores. Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy. Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage. Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones. Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet. Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent. Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493 Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments. Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism. Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.

NYC's government-run grocery store is expected to open in 2029 at a $30M cost to taxpayers More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…



