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Friedberg says commercial AI models regurgitated his proprietary scientific queries
“I have had experience where we've asked some fairly novel scientific questions and it identifies it as a novel insight. Is that, oh, never thought about that. Be interesting. Like blah, blah, blah. And then using a different account asking the same model later…”
Friedberg: Ohalo achieves 50% to 100% plant size gains versus industry's 1.5%
“In the corn seed industry, Breeders that are breeding corn are spending three billion dollars a year on breeding, and they're getting maybe one and a half percent yield gain per year. With our system, we are seeing 50 to a hundred percent jump in the size of t…”
Friedberg: The Production Board halts new investing to pivot entirely to Ohalo
“I'm not doing any new investing. Actually, a lot of folks moved into Ohalo or moved out to stop doing new investing, and then slowly we're kind of, as we have a liquidity event, we'll do a distribution, but the goal is for TPB To end up being a holding company…”
Friedberg: Ohalo's boosted potato offspring yielded 682g compared to parents' 33g and 9g
“When you look under the ground and you harvest the potatoes, you can see that that AB potato only had 33 grams. CD had nine grams. So each parent had 33 and nine grams potato. But the boosted offspring had 682 grams of potato.”
Friedberg: Ohalo's potato true seed technology can save farmers 20% of revenue
“So there's no potato seed industry today. And potato is like a hundred billion dollar market. With our system, not only can we make potatoes higher yielding and make them disease resistant, what we also make is perfect seed. So farmers can now plant seed in th…”
Friedberg: The Production Board invested nearly $40M into Ohalo before initial results
“We put close to forty million dollars into this project before these results started to come in.”
Friedberg: Ohalo is ramping up production of true potato seeds
“The world's first true potato seed, and we are ramping up production.”
Friedberg: Ohalo spent over $50M during five years in stealth
“This was stealth for five years. We put a ton of money into this business. So when you invest, like I mean, north of 50.”
Friedberg: Ohalo developed world's first true potato seed
“Farmers are planting our true seed world's first true seed of potato. Instead of planting 5000 pounds of chopped up potatoes, you plant a handful of seed. Completely changes the economics and the opportunity for potato farmers around the world.”