Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance • 203,471 subscribers
Writing at https://t.co/m6EtO60SiY and host of the Core Memory podcast. 2X NYT best-seller. Filmmaker @HBO (Wild, Wild Space) + @Netflix (Don't Die).
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Here, in all its glory, is the exclusive first look at the massive Tesla Semi factory. Our Core Memory crew went to Nevada to see the line come to life, as it gets ready to pump out thousands of all-electric trucks. We saw the new cab and went on a drive too. Wunderbar!
Ashlee Vance15,927,320 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
This is why Texas will do better than your state. There is a center of gravity forming around all the stuff Elon Musk is building between Austin and San Antonio and beyond. It's going to be the closest thing the US has to Shenzhen. Our hourlong exploration of the tech scene in Texas in full here on X.
Ashlee Vance104,892 Aufrufe • vor 5 Tagen
Four frenchmen have gone to Starbase to build a 50-foot, bronze Prometheus in honor of SpaceX. They've spent $1m on the project and encountered corndogs for the first time along the way. We went to Starbase to find out what Atelier Missor is all about and to see them in action.
Ashlee Vance663,018 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
America needs to build again, and it is building. We kick off our Core Memory 4th of July American manufacturing extravaganza with the latest temple to metal built by Elon Musk and the Tesla Semi team. This is an hour+ tour of the Tesla Semi factory in Nevada alongside Dan Priestley.
Ashlee Vance789,914 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Our new Core Memory video on NewLimit, which is finding combinations of proteins that reverse aging across the body. It is perhaps the most exciting work in the bio-tech field. Backed by Brian Armstrong Patrick Collison John Collison Joshua Kushner Nat Friedman and others
Ashlee Vance632,185 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Tomorrow, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will be on a podcast together for the first time ever. And they will give an exact date for the arrival of AGI. New models, the trial with Elon Musk, Anthropic beef, Sam personal drama, the future of compute buys, Kylie Robison and I do it all. Core Memory episode 67 hits on the Substack only. If you want the goods, it's time to sub up The Core Memory pod is on all major platforms and brought to you by Brex and @e1ventures because they have great taste.
Ashlee Vance254,217 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
We’ve heard a lot of moonshot ideas on this podcast, but this week’s guest may have the most impossible one yet: making tech more cultured. In this episode, I sat down with Anna Gát , a Hungarian philosopher, playwright, and founder of Interintellect, a platform for hosting intellectual conversations online. She calls herself “the bridge” between the humanities, academia, and the tech world, which in practice means getting engineers to read Goethe. Gát grew up on a TV set in communist Hungary. Her parents made the country’s biggest shows in an era when there was one channel available on Saturdays. In 2015, a family crisis left her starting over in London with two suitcases, one of them for books. She rebuilt her life on Twitter, DM’d Sam Altman, and got him as her first meeting on her first trip to America. Before Interintellect, Gát did just about every wordcel job you can do: playwright, screenwriter, script doctor. She holds graduate degrees in philosophical aesthetics and linguistics, currently splits her time between SF and NYC. The company that would become Interintellect began in London in 2016 as an AI tool for helping “humans have categorically better conversations.” On the side, she angel invests in aerospace. We get into why X was once the French café that could publish you and is now a place you can’t get discovered from, why the East Coast’s healthiest, wealthiest people are so convinced the future is doomed, and the duty AI builders have to explain themselves. Gát also admits, on the record, that she’s a sucker for Elon Musk’s syntax. I try to convince her that kids don’t read books anymore. She tries to convince me Silicon Valley should fund symphonies. Thx to Brex and sendcutsend for making the Core Memory podcast possible. #BrexPartner TIMESTAMPS — Intro — The science of dialogue — Growing up famous — Nobody saw 1989 coming — Losing everything in 2015 — Silicon Valley as the new Ellis Island — Balaji's DAO campaign — Elon's syntax — Why does America hate tech? — Engineers took over the world — Have LLMs solved language? — Are books dying? — No Pop-Tarts — Who funds culture?
Ashlee Vance32,865 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen
This might be the coolest real estate business in the world. Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and built a telescope farm. They're managing hundreds and hundreds of scopes for other people and offering super dark skies and fiber internet so that folks can take amazing pictures of space. Behold Starfront Observatories.
Ashlee Vance201,285 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Some dudes took over a ranch in Texas and are trying to turn it into a manufacturing mecca. We took our cameras and spent a couple of days there. I went upside down in a plane and did a study of Texan cults. It's glorious. Welcome to Proto-Town. Full episode here. If you haven't watched our shows yet, you should. No one does tech better. Core Memory on YouTube.
Ashlee Vance201,279 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Spent six years making this sucker . Hope you guys enjoy. Coming to HBO on July 17
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