@shaunmmaguire
Partner @sequoia // @caltech physics PhD // Views are my own
Technology
A research firm estimates 3.6GW under construction across multiple sites, not capacity already operating.
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An estimated 3.6 GW of capacity is under construction across existing and new sites.
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Sequoia led the earlier Series E, Bessemer led Series F, and Nvidia invested again.
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Cathedral researchers will use OpenAI's models to test its defenses; exceptional findings are eligible for up to $172,000 with bonuses.
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The company plans to expand robot manufacturing and industrial deployments while human tutors guide machines before full autonomy.
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Substantially all of Anthropic's roughly $895.4 billion in purchase and lease commitments reportedly relate to compute and infrastructure.
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A Sequoia investor with a large SpaceX stake predicts rapid growth, citing Starship and his low-cost compute thesis.
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Factory plans to give its Droids and engineers clearer lineage and evidence for migrations, pipeline debugging and model refactoring.
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Factory says the engine is built for complex projects and everyday development, promising greater accuracy, efficiency and speed.
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Sequoia plans to host the 60-minute bot-building contest with Citadel Securities and OpenAI.
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OpenAI says its claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis was formalized in Lean and made public.
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Zhan says Sequoia, Jeff Dean, Sachin Katti and Philip Wong will be among the fund’s limited partners.
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A user estimates 42 GB200 NVL72 racks could suffice at what they call production throughput, using off-peak prices only.
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Factory says its Droids can build, migrate and secure software directly on Databricks using enterprise data and models.
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A user says a ChatGPT test at the highest available depth gave the same answer, and they're cancelling their subscription.
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A post pairs the caption “When an AI startup gets a compute allocation” with a video link.
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A post argues America is finally meeting China on industrial competition after 20 years of Chinese supply-chain subsidies.
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Elon Musk said Grok Bot will use “the best back end model for any given task,” naming Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney, Suno and other APIs in a future-facing plan rather than a confirmed live rollout.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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Reflection says Beam uses 23B active parameters and plans to publish its full weights later in October 2026.