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@boyuan_chen Yup and he has crushed it recruiting some top tier talent

@FadeCapital Post-training leads quietly becoming the most sought-after hires in AI. Makes sense: shipping RL pipelines at production scale teaches you failure modes that research alone doesn't cover. Big bet but probably a good one.

MASSIVE ROUND: Ronak Malde has raised 8 figures from Conviction Capital as part of his seed round and is currently being preempted by other tier 1 VCs. Malde led post training at Windsurf before their Google/Deepmind acquisition.

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VC ALERT: CRV and Sequoia Capital have met with Yuandong Tian, the 11 year ex-Meta FAIR director who Created ELF OpenGo, the superhuman open source Go AI that beat pros 20-0.

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JUST IN: Rahul Roy-Chowdhury, former Grammarly CEO who spent 14 years at Google leading product and privacy, is seed fundraising his new AI venture. Connected with Sequoia, Greylock, Redpoint and others

@rronak_ @conviction

HAPPENING NOW: Rhea Sanger (Sister of Cursor Co-Founder Aman Sanger) has left Unify and is in discussions with multiple tier 1 VCs to raise for an encrypted messaging startup.

@andrewdai @generalcatalyst

DEVELOPING: Andrew Dai, the former Google DeepMind researcher who led Gemini data, is taking meetings with General Catalyst to fund his stealth venture, Elorian. Dai is building visual reasoning AI systems that process text, images, and video simultaneously.

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SCOOP: Andreessen Horowitz is is meeting with Jimmy Ba to fund his seed round. The xAI co-founder and U Toronto professor just invented the Adam optimizer, a critcal algorithm for training deep neural nets.

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JUST IN: Former OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek is in talks with Altimeter Capital and New Enterprise Associates to raise seed capital for a new company. He led the teams behind o1, o3 reasoning models and GitHub Copilot

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He first introduced the Adam Optimizer in a 2014 paper titled “Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization” that he published with Diederik Kingma.

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