From a tech roadmap perspective, here is how the materials are shifting: ​1️⃣ Compute/Switch/Motherboards: CCL is staying on the current PPO/CH track, starting at M8+ and scaling toward M9/M10 for next-gen nodes. ​2️⃣ Backplanes/Midplanes: To balance manufacturability and performance, we're seeing a hybrid approach. It leverages a glass-free PTFE Core paired with Q-glass/CH resin Prepregs (PP) for mechanical reinforcement. ​Co-existence is the actual winning playbook here. #AIInfrastructure# #PCB# #CCL# #MaterialScience# #PTFE# #QGlass#

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SAM ALTMAN WAS JUST ASKED IF OPENAI'S HUMANOID ROBOT IS STILL ON TRACK FOR 2027 He thinks everything in bio and material science is about to be transformed, along with software that gets built on the fly for whatever you need, cybersecurity, and new kinds of energy, where he said we could see "a real renaissance." On the robot, he's sticking with 2027 for a demo but not for anything walking around. "I think we'll have a cool demo in 2027, like a great demo. I don't think that there will be like robots walking the streets for a few years longer, but we'll have something impressive."

OpenAI president Greg Brockman on why compute is becoming the "new oil" of the AI age "We announced a couple of weeks ago that our AI, for $2,000 worth of compute, was able to solve 10 long-standing math problems that had eluded mathematicians for decades. Think about that applied to biology, to material science" "All of these applications are powered by one fundamental resource, which is compute. Compute is really becoming the new oil, the new limited resource of the AI age" "You need to believe one fundamental thing. Because AI is about solving the problems humans want solved, you need to believe that the demand for problems to be solved is unlimited. That is something I believe. We have a billion users on ChatGPT, and the depth of usage as people use agents is going off the charts" "If you believe in human creativity, human ambition, then ultimately you have to believe in the power of what AI will provide"

Too many Physical AI founders are obsessed with the technology. The team at Dandy is obsessed with the outcome. Over the last 18 months, Dandy has become a leading Physical AI business that is delivering the highest quality crowns at industry leading prices. And under the hood the technology breakthroughs are insane 1. AI Crown Design - the team built their own model from scratch to drive down the cost of design and improve design accuracy that has led to industry leading remake rates 2. Automated Nesting Technology - Maximizes their yield on CNC milling of crowns 3. Robotics - automates their manufacturing line end to end 4. Proprietary QAQC - checks the quality of the crown at multiple points across the manufacturing process 5. Material Science Breakthroughs - the first company in the world to ever 3D inkjet print at the micron level that is required to deliver the reaction you see in that video 6. Launched their own Proprietary Scanner - Democratizes access to high quality scanners for free for Dentists 7. Chairside AI - Provides real-time feedback to Dental practices to make sure that they hit the scan quality required and coaches them in real-time around the scan, rebooking the patient and more These are just some of the things the Dandy team has accomplished in an insane time period. Yet you don't hear them talking about it. What you see them talking about is customer reactions and love. Why? Because Dentists don't care about how something is made. They care about do they get a great crown at a great price and in record breaking time. And Dandy delivers that.

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