For 60 years, experts said fusion was always 30 years away. Last week, Helion cleared Washington State regulatory approval for its Orion fusion plant, the first commercial fusion reactor in history. In the meantime, Fable 5 has returned with stricter guardrails accompanied by an interesting release of Sonnet 5.
- Stripe used Fable V to overhaul 50 million lines of code in a single day. Months of engineering work, gone in hours.
- 140 humanoid robot companies in China. Morgan Stanley revised projections three times: 14K → 26K → 50K this year, 500K by 2030.
- StarCloud launched the first GPU in orbit and trained an LLM in space. StarCloud Two launches in January with 100x the power.
- Grok 4.5 based on a 1.5 trillion parameter model. Elon plans to start a brand new pre-training run from scratch every month.
