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Noone: Zoo will launch text-to-CNC toolpath generation within 18 months
“If it's text straight to the CNC machine, then that will be a capability that will come out in the next year, year and a half from us as a company is you can have your text prompt, send something to a CNC machine because you have that toolpath generated in pro…”
Noone: Manual CAD interfaces scale engineering communication complexity quadratically
“It's a very, again, labor-driven, very slow process that ends up compounding, you know, the number of times or number of parts you have interfacing squared. That's the number of interfaces you have. That's the number of engineers you have having kind of cross …”
Noone: Zoo built the first GPU-optimized cloud CAD geometry engine using CUDA
“So our view was we would start with this geometry engine. That's the world's first GPU optimized cloud-based API accessible CAD engine. We built that from scratch. So that's CUDA, which is kind of GPU level machine language CUDA level implementation of those c…”
Noone: Zoo users generated 13,000 CAD files on Text-to-CAD launch day
“The day we launched text-to-CAD in December of last year, we had 13,000 CAD files generated the first day of launching the platform.”
Zoo has raised about $6 million total in venture capital
“So historically we've raised only about six million in private venture capital.”
Zoo to merge Text-to-CAD directly into CAD modeling app in V1.0
“Right now we're doing a push for what we call version one point O of both of those products. Those will actually merge together that rather than generating text to CAD and having a part, you can now do that in the modeling app and then make downstream changes.”
Noone: Zoo is building its first local GPU data center
“We're starting to build out our first local data center. And for our own GPUs, both for the geometric rendering side and the ML training side, we use those on both sides of the stack there.”
Former GitHub CEOs Tom Preston-Werner and Nat Friedman backed Zoo as angels
“Two of the angels in us are two of Jess's previous coworkers, which is Tom Preston Werner, the original GitHub founder, CEO, and then Nat Friedman, who took over the CEO for Tom after that.”