Genius Ventures

Excited to release PostTrainBench v1.0! This benchmark evaluates the ability of frontier AI agents to post-train language models in a simplified setting. We believe this is a first step toward tracking progress in recursive self-improvement 🧵:

210 days ago, @naturalpay was just a one-pager and a memo. Today, we’re coming out of stealth. Natural is the agentic payments platform powering frictionless money movement between agents, businesses, and consumers. Wallets. Payments. Ledgering. Routing. Identity. Compliance. Credit. Observability. Risk. Everything needed to move money. Engineered for agents and designed for humans. These primitives give you the ability to transact without becoming a payments expert or stitching together a dozen fragmented tools. Huge thanks to our team of 10 (soon to be 25), our early investors, and the supporters who believed in this vision from the start. If you want to help shape how money moves over the coming decades, we’re hiring. And if you’re building agents you should probably be moving money too. Reach out. Read more about Natural and the products we’re launching in the blog below. natural.co/blog/introduci…

I’m thrilled to announce Baba, The American Healthcare Company. Baba connects older adults and their families with dedicated advocates who can coordinate their care. Our advocates are nurses and social workers who have worked at the front lines of the healthcare system for decades, and who can get folks the resources they need. This company was born of a family tragedy and has grown to support thousands of families across every corner of the country.

Excited to share big news: we just raise our $30M series B at @OutsetAI — only six months after our Series A.

Today, we're launching @worktrace_ai to help businesses uncover their best automation opportunities and build those automations. Our founders, Angela Jiang (product manager of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 at OpenAI) and Deepak Vasisht (UIUC CS professor, MIT researcher, IIT graduate of the last decade), are determined to eliminate the AI divide between frontier labs and the workforce. Our $9M seed round is led by @8vc and @conviction with participation from @OpenAI, @svangel and @_geniusventures. Join us!

I’m excited to finally announce Natural (@naturalpay), our $9.8m seed round, and commitment to building the best payments ecosystem for agents.