Episode Details

Orbital recently raised a $50m Series B led by Plural to scale its AI platform for developing advanced materials.

Jonathan Godwin is Co-founder and CEO at Orbital Industries. The company is using AI to discover a new GPU cooling material for data centres, with plans to apply the same technology to hardware and manufacturing across sectors such as semiconductors, energy and aerospace.

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction

0:20 - Orbital’s $50m Series B

1:50 - Discovering a new GPU cooling material

3:45 - The long-term vision for AI industrials

5:50 - Raising deep tech before the AI boom

8:20 - Why Plural backed Orbital

11:20 - The Orb open-source model

14:05 - Why Orb is open source

15:15 - Why Orbital builds hardware, not just AI models

20:40 - Building a mission-driven company