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Sehat Sutardja and the pleasure of taking things apart
A Jakarta radio repairer became Marvell’s co-founder by looking closely at the parts other people overlooked. His favorite gadget was usually the one he had yet to build.
The $2,000 AI Company That Learned to Think in Trains, Proteins and Genomes
InstaDeep began in Tunis with two laptops, about $2,000 and no tidy business plan. A decade later, its algorithms route circuit boards, read genomes and sit inside BioNTech's bet on AI-designed medicine.
Flux
Flux is a browser-based, AI-native hardware design platform that turns text prompts into manufacturable printed circuit boards. The San Francisco company calls its product an 'AI Hardware Engineer' and is rewriting how electronics get designed by combining an electronic CAD environment with an agentic copilot that researches parts, draws schematics, lays out boards, and prepares files for fabrication.