Saronic

Mentioned in 12 analyzed podcast episodes across 7 shows

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg TBPN Bloomberg Tech This Week in Startups Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist The Shawn Ryan Show The a16z Show

Episode Mentions

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Aug 5, 2026

Saronic Founders: Autonomous Warships, China's 230X Advantage & Swarms of Robot Ships

“Episode subject; builds autonomous warships including Corsair and Marauder, announced Port Alpha shipyard in Brownsville, TX.”

Autonomous surface vessel (ASV) rescue operations in contested environmentsUS-China shipbuilding capacity gap and naval fleet size disparityVertical integration strategy in defense manufacturing

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TBPN · Jul 16, 2026

Thinking Machines’ First AI Model, California Loses $3.2B to Texas, TSMC Adds $100B | Diet TBPN

“Defense startup that chose Brownsville, Texas over California for its $3.2B automated shipyard project, creating ~10,000 jobs.”

Open-weight AI model releases and competitive positioningAI model distillation as geopolitical and cybersecurity threatThinking Machines Lab Inkling model benchmarks and architecture

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TBPN · Jul 16, 2026

TML Inkling, California Forever?, TSMC Capex | David Baszucki, Everett Randle, Eric Glyman, Jordan Black

“Defense startup that chose Brownsville, Texas over California for its $3.2B Point Alpha shipyard project.”

Open-weight AI model releases and competitive positioningAI model distillation and Chinese lab IP concernsVenture capital market dynamics and 'playing with house money' post-Anthropic

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Bloomberg Tech · Jul 16, 2026

TSMC Slides, Saronic Invests in Texas, GameStop Makes Its Move

“Autonomous maritime drone company announced $3.2B investment in next-generation shipyard at Port of Brownsville, Texas”

TSMC U.S. Manufacturing ExpansionSemiconductor Capital Expenditure CyclesAI Chip Demand and Supply Chain

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This Week in Startups · Jun 24, 2026

Why the Future of Video Games is Moving Back to the Dinner Table

“Autonomous maritime defense startup cited for rescuing helicopter pilots, praised by AJ Piplica.”

Face-to-face gaming console hardware innovationCapacitive touch technology for physical game piece recognitionHardware startup prototyping and capital-efficient development

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This Week in Startups · Jun 10, 2026

Why the most expensive Seed deals are the cheapest | E2299

“Defense tech company whose autonomous boats rescued Apache helicopter pilots”

AI Company IPOsSeed Round ValuationsAI Token Economics

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Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist · May 8, 2026

Ep 153: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Heretics, AI Weapons, and Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy

“Defense technology company Sankar is involved with; working on scaling manufacturing and AI-enabled autonomous systems”

Defense Industrial Base Capacity and ScalingForward-Deployed Engineers and Customer-Centric Product DevelopmentHistorical Defense Innovation and Organizational Heretics

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The Shawn Ryan Show · May 7, 2026

#302 Joe Lonsdale - If China Takes Taiwan, AI Sets Back 10 Years

“Building autonomous warships (25-180 feet) with more weapons capacity than crewed destroyers at lower cost”

Taiwan semiconductor supply chain and geopolitical riskIran nuclear weapons development and Middle East military strategyChina's cognitive warfare and anti-American funding operations

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TBPN · Mar 31, 2026

AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Axios NPM Package Compromised, Claude Code Source Code Leak | Alex Pruden, Qasar Younis, Sebastian Mallaby, Forrest Heath, Dino Mavrookas, Will Ahmed, Jannick Malling, Ryan Daniels, Chris Yu

“Autonomous surface vessel manufacturer raised $1.75B for shipyard expansion”

Supply Chain SecurityQuantum Computing ThreatsPost-Quantum Cryptography

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The a16z Show · Mar 26, 2026

Security, Resilience, and the Future of Mobile Infrastructure

“Unmanned surface vessel company mentioned as example of Navy private sector partnership”

Salt Typhoon cyberattackCellular network securityDefense technology acquisition

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The a16z Show · Mar 25, 2026

Submarines and the Future of Defense Manufacturing

“Company developing small, low-cost autonomous underwater vessels”

Submarine manufacturing capacity shortageDefense industrial base rebuildingSoftware-driven manufacturing

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The a16z Show · Feb 17, 2026

WSJ x a16z: The Next 25 Years of Defense Innovation

“Three-year-old company building autonomous surface vessels for defense applications”

American Dynamism investment practiceDefense industrial base modernizationHypersonic weapons development

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