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Happening now at @ImaginationinAction: Link co-founder Dave Blundin interviews @OpenAI founder @Sama re: building in the #AI world. With AI accelerating into all human endeavors, how do we build on existing platforms? #LinkVentures #ImaginationinAction

Intelligence is leaving the screen and joining us in the physical world! 🤖

@imaginationxyz Physical AI Summit @MIT Samberg, Oct 30:
• 150 speakers, 48 sessions
• 20 demos + 20 startups
• @BostonDynamics' Spot on the floor
• 5pm: Investing in Physical AI, moderated by @DaveBlundin

Thanks to @johnkwerner and @imaginationxyz for convening this with @MIT_CSAIL, @MITLIDS, @MassRobotics, @TEDxMIT, The Engine, and the @massaicoalition, as part of Tough Tech Week.

See you all there!

See Link Ventures take the stage at @imaginationxyz Summit 2026, joining conversations on the future of AI, entrepreneurship, and what’s next for builders and investors. Thank you to our host @johnkwerner!

In case you missed it, full playlist here, with new videos coming out daily: youtube.com/watch?v=rpEaOH…

Last week at Google Bay View, Imagination in Action (@imaginationxyz) Imagination in Action brought founders, researchers, and frontier operators together for The Next Endeavor - two days covering where intelligence is going next, hosted by John Werner and in collaboration with Stanford HAI.

Across five stages, the conversation ran from silicon and new architectures to physical AI, agentic systems, and the future of work. Startups pitched live. Demos ran all day.

OUT NOW! On the Endeavor Stage, John moderated "AI Has Outgrown the Hardware Running It" with Link founder @DaveBlundin , @andrewdfeldman (@cerebras), and Atiq Raza (@virsecsystems) for a conversation on chips, memory, and systems that will actually power the next era of AI advancement.

Andrew summarized well by comparison: "The internet got fast, and they didn't become better at shipping DVDs in envelopes. They became a movie studio.” That’s the absolute minimum level of change that AI is going to bring about.

John, thank you for curating this fantastic panel, and Andrew thanks for brining the shiny WSE-3!

TekTrek’s first round trip is complete.

Most programs pull East Coast talent west and keep it there. TekTrek features the best of both worlds: in June, 44 students primarily from @MIT, @Harvard, and @Princeton went to San Francisco to build. Ten weeks later, they brought their companies home to Boston.

They worked from the Presidio, learned from 120+ mentors, met founders and technology leaders, and built alongside a community that believes the next generation should be the ones sculpting the future.

Homecoming was just as eventful: a Science Dinner at the CPO Ed Baker (@ed_baker_whoop) of @WHOOP's home in Cambridge, featuring presentations from Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu, @CFS_energy's cofounder/CSO Brandon Sorbom (@BrandonSorbom), and @duolingo's CPO Cem Kansu (@cemdnsu).

At the MIT Showcase, 17 teams took the stage, including Brian Elliott, CEO and cofounder of @blitzyai, who opened with his original founding pitch. Among the 300+ attendees there were more than 90 investors. Then a reception at The ‘Quin House with Sandy Edgerley and Aaron Edell (@aaronedell)of @awscloud, one of TekTrek’s supporters, who announced he is committed to tripling his token support for the program.

The closing day on Martha’s Vineyard brought together HBS Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter (@RosabethKanter), Mitch Kapor, NASA astronaut Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow), Olympic gold medalist Tenley Albright, and @siegelendowment’s Executive Director & President Katy Knight (@sayskaty).

At the heart of TekTrek is a simple idea: AI is fundamentally changing what small teams can accomplish. Bring exceptional builders together, surround them with the right people, and give them the environment, community, and resources to move faster. AI has radically changed what a small team can build. As John Werner, Chief Architect and Cofounder of TekTrek often says: “three is the new thousand.”

Congratulations to the teams of Cohort One. The first of many!

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