| It's Wednesday. The incoming presidential administration seems to be broadly unconcerned with the ramifications of the climate crisis. For nonprofits like Climate Solutions, which has guided state and local governments and businesses on climate policy for nearly three decades, 2025 will likely be business as usual. Tech Brew's Tricia Crimmins talked with the organization's longtime executive director to explain how organizations smaller than the federal government move climate policy (and, therefore, green tech) forward. In today's edition: —Tricia Crimmins, Patrick Kulp, Annie Saunders | | | GREEN TECH | With President-elect Trump less inclined to prioritize climate action at the federal level, the results of the 2024 election in many ways passed the buck on handling the climate crisis to states and corporations. Nonprofits stand to play a part, too. Climate Solutions, which works with state legislatures to pass climate policy and partners with corporations to help them decarbonize, has long worked with states and companies to help them move climate policy forward. Tech Brew talked with Climate Solutions Executive Director Gregg Small about his work and the organization's efforts to advance climate policy. Tell me about you, how you got to Climate Solutions, and what you do there. I've been at Climate Solutions for 17 years. I've been the executive director here that whole time, and before that, I had been the executive director of a couple other organizations that had worked more on public health, toxic chemicals, pesticides, those types of issues. I got this job in 2008, and around that time, I just was feeling the intense pull to work on climate change for fairly obvious reasons. And, well, here I am, 17 years later—still at it. What are some examples of what you're advising companies to do? What are some processes that they're starting to engage in because they worked with Climate Solutions to decarbonize? Every sector is different, right? Like fleets is different than buildings, is different than trying to get solar panels on your building, etc.…[But] at a certain level, a lot of the basics are the basics. Keep reading here.—TC | | | | | | Presented by Invesco QQQ | Innovation that's easy to invest in? That's right; it can be simple. Invesco QQQ ETF has delivered exposure to Nasdaq-100 companies across an array of sectors and at the forefront of transformative themes—all in a single investment—for 25 years. Check out the companies leading the charge in relevant and innovative themes like augmented reality, cloud computing, big data, streaming services, electric vehicles, and so much more. They're names you know, like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Explore insights and strategies designed to help you invest with confidence. Learn more about how you can harness the power of Invesco QQQ—and rethink possibility. Invesco Distributors, Inc. | | | AI | Even after AI developers spend millions on computing power to train a model on billions of human-written words, it still takes an intensive regimen of human feedback and fine-tuning before the system is ready to interact with humans. That process is called post-training, and there's a big gap in the level of sophistication between open-source AI and often-better-funded closed rivals, according to the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). It's why the nonprofit research lab is releasing its latest family of LLMs, Tülu 3, along with a post-training toolkit encompassing datasets, code architecture, and an evaluation framework to help other open-source developers replicate the regimen the team used for those models. Open models like Meta's Llama family, Mistral AI, and Google Gemma are especially useful for companies that need more control over models and businesses dealing with sensitive information. But AI2 said even most open models don't release full post-training details. "[Post-training] is a challenging process," Hannaneh Hajishirzi, senior director of NLP research at AI2, told Tech Brew. "The big companies have figured it out. The open-source community, I would say, haven't figured this out. Why? Because it's a big effort." Keep reading here.—PK | | | | | | GREEN TECH | Investors are banking on a future in which drinking water is harvested from the sky and sea, and have placed bets on two startups building the tech. Aquaria, a startup that builds atmospheric water generators (AWG) at the consumer level, uses heat exchange systems to turn air into water by taking in surrounding air, filtering it, and then condensing the humidity in the filtered air into water. The company recently announced that it secured $112 million in funding to bring its AWGs to commercial and residential properties. Backers of Aquaria include ag tech investment firm Mistletoe, tech investment fund Soma Capital, and former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, who said he sees Aquaria as one of many solutions to the climate crisis. "Aquaria has built an innovative technology that will solve the water challenges that are so prevalent in this country," Gephardt said in a statement, "by integrating and enhancing our existing water infrastructure to harvest clean water from our greatest natural resource: the air." Keep reading here.—TC | | | | | | Together With Lightricks Video generation innovation. LTX Video (LTXV) is the brand-new generative AI video model taking visual storytelling by storm. Created by Lightricks engineers and shared with the open video community to drive further AI video innovation + toolmaking, LTXV is taking video creation to new heights. 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