X, The Moonshot Factory

1 in 4 Americans over 45 face serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs. For National Mobility Awareness Month, we're celebrating X graduate Skip, a team dedicated to helping people move more freely and stay active. 🏃💨 Watch X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller test out their first movewear product, MO/GO, on a steep treadmill climb on The Moonshot Podcast! 👇 Full episode & journey: https://lnkd.in/gXp77dpH #NMAM2026

Much of the world still operates in data darkness. In the latest episode of The Moonshot Podcast, we explore two moonshots focused on making the invisible visible by uncovering hidden threats, inefficiencies, and patterns through entirely new forms of data. First, Astro Teller sits down with Mike Wiacek, Stephen G., and Shapor Naghibzadeh from Chronicle, X’s cybersecurity moonshot, which uses Google-scale analytics to help organizations detect and defend against cyber threats. Next, he talks with Steven Chen and Suresh Vishnubhatla from Chorus, a moonshot bringing visibility to global supply chains, where massive inefficiencies and waste often go unseen. Read on to learn more.

🗑️ Project Delta, a Google food waste initiative started at X by Emily Ma, has a brand-new use case: making your trash can smarter. Mill is partnering with Delta to train the algorithms that power its high-tech garbage bin, which transforms food scraps into valuable resources like soil and chicken feed. Read more in Forbes: https://lnkd.in/gfGF6h_2

Bellwether recently partnered with Kansas City to see how its technology can help cities understand disaster damage in real-time and get urgent help to those who need it, faster. If you’re a city official exploring how to improve your disaster response strategy, please get in touch with our team.  https://lnkd.in/guyEXT_7

“Your human brain, which does more than any current artificial intelligence model can do, only takes up as much energy as a flashlight.” - Sarah Laszlo, PhD, Project Valkyrie. This week’s episode of The Moonshot Podcast spotlights Valkyrie, a never-before-shared X project that explored new ways to build energy-efficient AI models by studying the formation of biological brains. After diving into what the mind can teach us about technology, Astro Teller then sits down with Obi Felten to learn what technology can teach us about the mind. Obi and her team on Project Amber designed an EEG device that could detect and measure mental health conditions like anxiety and depression. 🎧 Tune in here: https://lnkd.in/gk4uMQhk

The promise of AI to help solve many of humankind’s largest challenges rests on the computing power needed to train and run our most sophisticated models. With the demand for that compute exploding, we need to radically alter how we design our chips to make the most of AI’s potential. The latest edition of The Moonshot Podcast looks at two never-before-shared moonshots, both focused on how we design and build computer chips. First, Astro Teller sits down with Tammo Spalink (司馬泰) from Project Positron, which pioneered foundational advances now used to build custom silicon for AI applications. Next, he talks with  Raj B Apte from Project Bodger, which explored how AI itself could reinvent the chip design process. Read on to learn more.

“The age of rapid intensification requires rapid prediction—and rapid response.” - Rich Mazzola, Bellwether. When hurricanes strike, minutes matter. Yet communities are forced to make high-stakes decisions—from evacuations to resource deployment—with incomplete information. Today Bellwether, X’s moonshot to understand and anticipate changes across the planet, is releasing new hurricane prediction and response tools to help. These new tools map the predicted paths of a hurricane up to 15 days out, ranking them based on probability and severity. After landfall, Bellwether can also swiftly analyze structural damage to deliver FEMA-ready reports, so that help can get to where it's needed faster. Learn more on our blog: https://lnkd.in/gh4wDmTN

At #WebSummitVancouver, our CEO Mahesh Krishnaswamy will join Helen Riley, CFO of X, The Moonshot Factory for a conversation on moonshots and systematizing radical innovation. Moderated by Fast Company’s Harry McCracken the session will explore the evolution of Taara from an X project born out of Loon into a venture-backed company advancing light-based connectivity around the world. The discussion will also touch on X’s approach on spinning out its projects, balancing ambitious innovation with operational efficiency, and why solving today’s global challenges requires thinking beyond incremental gains. Join us: Dreaming Big — Talking Moonshots in 2026 📍 Stage 5 | Corporate Innovation Summit 🗓 Tuesday, May 12 @ 4:25 PM ~ 4:45 PM If you’re attending #WebSummitVancouver, join the conversation around why the “10% better” mindset is just not enough, and what it takes to build technologies for the next generation. https://lnkd.in/gB554HjF

Could a fruit fly’s brain hold the key to tomorrow’s computers? Next week on The Moonshot Podcast, Astro Teller sits down with Sarah Laszlo, PhD to hear about Valkyrie, a never-before-shared project that explored new ways to build energy-efficient AI models inspired by biological brains. He also chats with Obi Felten from Project Amber, a moonshot that aimed to design a low-cost, accessible device that could detect and measure mental health. 📅 Tune in next Wednesday, May 13, on all major streaming platforms. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/gFQ6zyUN