X, The Moonshot Factory

“I hope AI will have a very large democratizing effect. Giving everyone an army of staff that, today, is only available to the relatively wealthy—this would lift up a lot of people.” In the latest episode of The Moonshot Podcast’s Deep Dive video series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sat down with Google Brain Founder Andrew Ng for a conversation about the pioneering ideas that led to some of the biggest breakthroughs in modern-day machine learning: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/g6DawzUd

X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller revealed his childhood role model on a recent episode of the Scientista podcast—a storybook hero whose strength, audacity, and kindness has transcended generations. Check out the full episode here: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gwxfmnQ3

X graduate, Skip, brought its powered pants onstage for the inaugural Hard Fork Live event Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton interviewed founder Kathryn Zealand about her team’s mobility moonshot before Kevin tried the pants on for size. Watch the full episode and see how Kevin fared on the Stairmaster: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gTQXhHAg

Excited to share our collaboration with Renault Group at their groundbreaking ReFactory in Valladolid. Vehicle reconditioning is uniquely complex - hundreds of vehicles, each with different states and timelines. Traditional systems can't handle this. But working with Renault's visionary team, we've proven that Chorus can bring clarity to chaos. What excites me most: this scales. What we're achieving at one facility can rapidly deploy across entire automotive networks worldwide. Grateful to the Renault team for their partnership in showing what's possible when manufacturing expertise meets advanced orchestration.

This World Nature Conservation Day, we’re spotlighting Heritable Agriculture, X’s Moonshot to Program Plants. While incubating at X, the team created a machine learning platform that can uncover critical new details about how plants grow and how to optimize their growth. Today, Heritable Agriculture is an independent company working to help farmers and agriculture companies produce healthier, more productive, and more resilient crops. Learn more: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gqGgGXps

“We get to build the future that we want. We make choices about what that future looks like. And we can choose things that are beautiful, fascinating, and artistically informed, or we can choose to build things that are scary, alienating, predictable, and boring.” In the latest episode of The Moonshot Podcast’s Deep Dive video series, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sat down with Robot Choreographer Dr. Catie Cuan for a conversation about how dance can be used to build beautiful and useful robots that people want to be around: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/dk_aFJrT

Tidal founder Evan Rapoport believes that taking moonshots can be “a spiritual experience.” Tune into Episode Four of The Moonshot Podcast to hear why and how he and the Tidal team first approached the challenge of protecting the oceans and feeding the world’s growing population: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/eG5MuECT

"Engineering is always associated with math. But the creativity behind engineering is very hard to measure." The Moonshot Podcast’s latest behind-the-scenes video is now live! Astro Teller sat down with Wing’s former Chief Engineer, André Prager, to discuss creativity, problem solving, and prototyping. André shares his obsession with simplicity, why engineering often feels more like creating art, and how the Wing team solved some of their toughest engineering challenges: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gtdrkJV3.

🎉 Congratulations to two X graduates—Waymo and SandboxAQ—for being named to TIME’s 2025 Most Influential Companies list! “Self-driving cars have long featured in sci-fi renderings of the future,” writes TIME Correspondent Andrew Chow of Waymo. “But many people don’t realize that a handful of cities already exist in that future—and that the transition, all things considered, has been relatively painless.” SandboxHQ, which builds software for drug discovery and materials science, has “proven its value” by helping researchers explore and iterate faster, writes TIME Reporter Harry Booth. Check out the full list here: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/emKkn_X9

“For years, the insurance industry has grappled with a lack of accurate, forward-looking wildfire risk data. Until now, no technology could effectively parse and analyze this scale of information.” X’s Project Bellwether recently announced they’re working with the global insurer Hiscox to increase the availability of wildfire insurance to homeowners across California. Learn more: https://xmrrwallet.com/cmx.plnkd.in/gcgSTjjV