X, the experimental lab of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is looking beyond Silicon Valley for its next big idea, forming a collaboration with New Lab, a start-up incubator in Brooklyn. The heavily-lossmaking X, which describes itself as a “moonshots factory”, is most famous for creating Waymo, the self-driving car project that is now a standalone Alphabet business. Now it has approached New Lab, founded in 2016 and home to 152 companies working on projects including vertical farming, space robotics and other “frontier technologies”. Read More...
X, the experimental lab of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is looking beyond Silicon Valley for its next big idea, forming a collaboration with New Lab, a start-up incubator in Brooklyn. The heavily-lossmaking X, which describes itself as a “moonshots factory”, is most famous for creating Waymo, the self-driving car project that is now a standalone Alphabet business. Now it has approached New Lab, founded in 2016 and home to 152 companies working on projects including vertical farming, space robotics and other “frontier technologies”.
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