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Current Signals

Research frontiers

Three active theses tracking where deeptech is converging.

  1. 01
    Physical AIActive

    Intelligence is descending into physical systems.

    Inference is moving from cloud APIs into sensors, robots, and factory floors.

    Trajectory · Accelerating

  2. 02
    EnergyTracking

    Compute is becoming an infrastructure problem.

    Power and cooling now constrain model deployment more than algorithmic breakthroughs.

    Trajectory · Accelerating

  3. 03
    BiologyTracking

    Engineering life is becoming an information discipline.

    Sequencing, synthesis, and automated readout are converging into a single design loop.

    Trajectory · Emerging

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