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📰 News 📰 The Catalyst engine has achieved FAA certification! The certification marks a significant milestone for this program, paving the way for its entry into service. The Catalyst will bring a transformative change to this segment, offering greater efficiency, enhanced performance, and improved fuel consumption. Congratulations to all the @AvioAero and #GEAerospace teams who have worked to develop, design, assemble, and test this turboprop engine. Read the release ➡ bit.ly/4bo1fT8 #Catalyst #aviation

Xiaomi released footage of two CyberOne 02 humanoids completing a full 8-hour production shift at its EV factory—centre-console side-cover station, pulling panels from bins and sequencing them for the line Progression: March (90.2% success rate over a 3-hour pilot, 76-sec cycle) → now full-shift with autonomous error correction and two charging breaks Caution: footage is sped up ~100x, no outside observer has verified it, and Xiaomi hasn't shared parts processed, success rate, or human intervention frequency

Fable 5.2 shows substantially improved skills in controlling physical robots, even on tasks it has never explicitly been trained to do. On RoboDojo, a benchmark with a simulated two-arm robot, it outperformed other models and most AI systems built to control robots.

12 years ago I founded Boom, as a software engineer doing hardware for the first time. I’m probably the least handy founder in hard tech. My 12 y/o son does my soldering and 3D printing for home projects, and I’ve struggled with imposter syndrome the whole way through. What business does a software guy have building supersonic jets and turbines? More than a decade in, the most insane realization is that software is the key to reaccelerating hardware engineering. But in a way that I don’t think is widely understood or implemented, even in the burgeoning hard tech community. Most hardware engineering is actually software engineering in disguise. It’s spreadsheet “code,” engineering calculations done as one-offs. Eg wing structural loads in, spar sizing design out. Thermal loads in, air conditioning system sizing out. Everything is a calculation, and calculation is software. But these calculations are done essentially by hand, as if we are doing arithmetic but have not yet discovered algebra. Hardware engineers have baby software, built in spreadsheets, the kind of crappy software I wrote as a kid before I understood architecture, unit tests, APIs, version control, and everything else that makes modern software good. Our airplanes and engines are built with the software sophistication of a script kiddie. So what we tell our engineers: don’t design the hardware, design the *algorithm* for designing the hardware. And take the algorithm seriously—as an algorithm and as a first-class engineered software system. Never design a piece of hardware, such that you couldn’t redesign it tomorrow with a different set of assumptions. This all sounds obvious, yet our experience at Boom is that it changes everything. Ten years ago we couldn’t afford to build much software. We had a small team—and there were few software engineers with the curiosity, brilliance, and vision required to learn hardware engineering. But now AI changes the equation. Now everyone can code. The software engineers define the architecture. The hardware people bring the physics and engineering know-how. We have a turbomachinery design tool that lets one engineer do in realtime what previously took 100 engineers six months. Another tool auto-generates 65% of entire aircraft structure. I’m sure we’ll figure out the other 35% too. Eventually these should not be multiple tools, but one integrated physics model of a complete vehicle, airframe and powertrain. The results speak for themselves. A boomless supersonic airplane built by 50. A full scale supersonic turbine made by 150. And with this approach, I don’t think we’ll need that many more people to build and certify a supersonic airliner. You don’t need a big team to build big things—not when everyone on the team is a software engineer.

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India’s clean energy transition isn't just a technology race, it’s an infrastructure economics battle. Better battery tech would be half the victory, but the real roadblock is the structural tug-of-war over who pays for the wires. Telecom had its Jio moment in 2016 when interstate roaming vanished overnight. Power never did. As the breakdown below shows, a massive solar discount gets swallowed by the time it reaches a factory floor. A ₹3.50 solar tariff balloons to a ₹6.55 landed cost after cross-subsidies, transmission fees, and local wire charges eat the arbitrage. This sets off a fierce three-way tug-of-war on the grid: •⁠ ⁠Factories want OUT to stop overpaying for residential and farm subsidies. •⁠ ⁠Discoms want to HOLD ON because every commercial exit creates a massive revenue hole. •⁠ ⁠Homes want SELF-SUFFICIENCY, and upcoming time-of-day tariffs will completely rewrite their economics. This unbundling is exactly where energy storage shifts from a neat technological luxury into a structural necessity. In this Bluprint, @_gamma_alpha (Kinjal) and @YashJ53 (Yash) from our Investment team created a BluPrint where they unpack why storage in India is stuck despite the economics working, and map where companies can actually be built, from grid duration to the C&I wedge and the home energy stack. Read the full breakdown here: blume.vc/commentaries/why-en…

Alright, so here's an announcement two years in the making. :) My new book, Super Cool Startup is out for pre-order on Amazon. I wrote about why I wrote it and also how I wrote it - thecmojournal.substack.com/p… Read, and don't forget to PRE-ORDER. :)

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