The Microduck adventure continues, and the shipping dates are close enough to feel real now. We are proud to tell you that 10,950 Microducks will come off the line between December 10 and January 10! Weekly batches, earliest orders first. Every date is in here.

Muse still crushing the charts:

Flow has raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Antonio Gracias (Valor) and Gavin Baker (Atreides) with Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha (SpaceX, Block), and more. When I became a mechanical engineer, I wanted to invent. In reality, 90% of the day to day execution work (CAD, excel, sim) was digital manual labour. That’s about to flip. The engineer’s role will change more profoundly than at any point since the invention of CAD, with humans focusing on invention, architecture, tradeoffs and judgement calls, and agents taking the grunt work. Anduril, Joby, Stoke Space, Rivian & many more - Flow is now the default platform for requirements and verification for frontier hardware teams. But it’s not just next-gen anymore. Industry giants including General Motors PPU and Volkswagen & Rivian’s joint venture (RV Tech) are reshaping their core development practices with Flow’s AI. The revolution is just starting. Models are getting better quickly at CAD, analysis, simulation, and tool use. In the next year, AI will move from integrating the work to doing the work. One day, this shift won't just enable us to iterate faster, it will enable us to design a class of products that we could not have dreamt of before. We’re hiring.

We're joining forces with @huggingface to identify the software libraries that scientific model contributors rely on most and explore opportunities to support the maintainers behind them. https://os4science.org/news/hugging-face-open-source-for-science-fund/

POV: You’re an engineer building AMD Helios.   Next up: putting it to the test. Episode 2 drops today 👀

I worked for this company in 2011. Their game was to be the only marketplace in town and use oligopoly power to maximize margin by charging obscenely and pushing creator payouts to $0. Today, obliterated by AI. The NYSE is delisting them. Karma does catch up, occasionally.

getting acquired by @nvidia = hugging face can now hire people we couldn't as a small startup and give them a decade to make open-source AI win! if you're one of them, my dms are open

https://x.com/i/article/2105089355962515456

I have some big news to share. Workera is being acquired by Pearson! Over six years ago, I was teaching at Stanford and thinking about a simple question: what if we could understand everyone's skills as precisely as the best teachers understand their students? I believed it could lead to a more meritocratic world. People could be recognized for what they can actually do, not just their credentials or network. They could understand their strengths and gaps, and rapidly develop the skills they need next. Organizations could discover talent they might otherwise overlook and manage their workforce with trusted skills data. What felt like a dream at the time is now a reality. Workera brought together experts in AI, psychometrics, and enterprise execution to build AI systems that reinvent how skills are measured. Our team pioneered AI-native skills intelligence, agent-led multimodal assessments, and even ambient skill measurement. We've established skills benchmarks across organizations, industries, and roles. And this mission feels more important today than ever! AI is changing work as we speak. Some roles are disappearing, new ones are emerging, and we need to help billions of people develop new skills and navigate what comes next. When I first spoke with @omarabbosh, it became clear that our companies shared the same mission. Pearson has helped generations of people learn and prove what they know. If you're reading this, there's a good chance you've taken a Pearson assessment, learned from their educational materials, earned a professional credential through them, read their psychometrics research, or benefited from their enterprise products in many other ways. Bringing together Workera's technology and AI talent with Pearson’s global scale and deep expertise in learning and assessment means we can pursue our mission at a scale we could only imagine on our own. To our customers and partners, thank you for believing in us. Expect even more innovations coming out of Workera and Pearson. To the Workera team, I’m incredibly proud of what you've built, and your continued dedication to our beautiful mission. To our board and our chairman @AndrewYNg, thank you for your belief, support, and mentorship. To everyone, we have big plans for this next chapter, so please stay tuned. We're just getting started! 😊