Monarch Tractor’s Praveen Penmetsa on fusing farming with AI and EVs | Decoder

At Code 2023, The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel had the opportunity to hang out onstage with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa for one of the most fascinating conversations of the entire event. Electrifying farms is hard and Praveen explained how he and Monarch are trying to tackle that challenge with autonomous, electric smart tractors. The ambition is to compete in an open way with closed platforms like John Deere, and Praveen said his goal for the Monarch platform is to become the Android of agriculture.
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[@TheVerge]

How else do you predict AI influencing food production?

[@walterbzy]

I think venture capital investments in farming will push out any non funded farmer making farming more consolidated while hurting consumers by giving them less choice.

[@ThomasAlex]

Damn, this is just brilliant. Could not have ever guessed that tractors would ever be so cool and ripe with potential

[@alecfotsch3533]

It's nice to see technology solving actual problems.

[@RealityTrailers]

Informative, educational, fascinating.

[@drjones694]

Don’t forget to update your playlists all the code interviews are not in the decoder playlist
Great interviews from this event thanks

[@neight123]

Nice. I could have listened to a whole hour or more about this.

[@walterbzy]

The next Amazon will be food production