Torsten Reil
@torstenreil
Helsing
Eurodoomer crowd staying suspiciously quiet about @Lovable's success. I wonder why, @WorkMJ
Lovable just crossed $100M ARR in 8 months. Faster than OpenAI, Cursor, Wiz, and every other software company in history. Today we're launching a game-changing update, it reduces the error rates by 91%. Introducing Lovable Agent:
Lovable just crossed $100M ARR in 8 months. Faster than OpenAI, Cursor, Wiz, and every other software company in history. Today we're launching a game-changing update, it reduces the error rates by 91%. Introducing Lovable Agent:
Europe's great founders must unretire
Europe's best founders retire too early. While successful American CEOs take on increasingly ambitious projects, many great European entrepreneurs tap out long before they've lost their touch. Why? @torstenreil and I unpack in our latest piece.
Helsing AI agent successfully completes Saab Gripen E test flight 🇪🇺 During live test flights above the Baltic Sea, Saab's Gripen E gave control to Centaur, Helsing's air combat AI agent Centaur executed complex manoeuvres and gave fire commands to the pilot in a Beyond Visual…
A milestone for autonomy in combat aviation in Europe. "The flights...on May 28th and June 3rd, saw a Gripen E fighter jet give control to Centaur [AI agent] above the Baltic Sea and focused on testing Centaur’s Beyond-Visual-Range air combat capabilities" helsing.ai/newsroom/helsi…
A milestone for autonomy in combat aviation in Europe. "The flights...on May 28th and June 3rd, saw a Gripen E fighter jet give control to Centaur [AI agent] above the Baltic Sea and focused on testing Centaur’s Beyond-Visual-Range air combat capabilities" helsing.ai/newsroom/helsi…
During live test flights, Saab's Gripen E gave control to Centaur, Helsing's air combat AI agent. Centaur executed complex manoeuvres and gave fire commands to the pilot in a Beyond Visual Range combat setting against another Gripen aircraft helsing.ai/newsroom/helsi…
so yes, your startup is a wrapper for Carl Zeiss Stiftung basically
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SDR says AI cannot replace a human pilot/operator yet: "A crewed combat air platform will remain at the heart of a system-of-systems approach, particularly in airborne air defence to counter [enemy] aircraft, until [AI] & autonomy reach necessary levels of capability & trust."
We should not repeat this mistake in Europe.
Note that @DiamondAircraft was bought around 2016-2017 by a Chinese conglomerate, and now they appear to be using Diamond DNA in a PLA Aircraft. Also note that the biggest US manufacturer of GA aircraft, Cirrus, is also owned by a Chinese company, AVIC, which builds military…
Accurate
i've never met someone who obsessively takes notes achieve anything great
Crewed fighter jets have become vulnerable. They’ll eventually face autonomous jet swarms - v hard to defend against.
“Several American F-16s and an F-35 fighter jet were nearly struck by Houthi air defenses, making real the possibility of American casualties, multiple U.S. officials said.” nytimes.com/2025/05/12/us/…
The sweet sweet moment you find product market fit (wait for it)