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Eric Zelikman

@ericzelikman

cofounder & ceo @humansand - building ai for humans // was lgtm-ing @xAI, phd-ing @stanford

Katılım Nisan 2010
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Eric Zelikman
Eric Zelikman@ericzelikman·
finally announcing i’ve started humans& w/ amazing friends @gharik & @YuchenHe07 & @TheAndiPenguin & @noahdgoodman & many other world-class folks. we're optimists: it’s possible to rethink how we build ai, to empower people to accomplish more together tldr: love is all you need
humans&@humansand

Today we introduce humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab. We believe AI can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other. At its best, AI should serve as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities

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Saurabh Shah
Saurabh Shah@saurabh_shah2·
In hindsight forming my entire perception of this city from Twitter was pretty stupid. It’s really quite lovely here
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Shirley Wu
Shirley Wu@ShirleyYXWu·
To the best PhD years at Stanford To all who have carried my learning and lit the way for my growth ❤️ Thank you is hardly enough
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humans&@humansand·
We will be co-hosting this in SF with our great friends at SV Angel. We'll keep the event small and cozy and have a few prizes for the teams:🥇$16k🥈$8k🥉$4k. Come by and hang out with the humans& team - it’ll be a lot of fun!
humans&@humansand

Announcing the humans& hackathon! Hack with us this Saturday - come experiment and build AI apps to help people collaborate and communicate, work with creative folks, learn a bit about what we're building, and win cool prizes Apply here: luma.com/2pbif8t9

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Eric Zelikman
Eric Zelikman@ericzelikman·
One cost more people (even prospective founders) should consider: if you did something else, would the impact you're having today still happen somewhere? If yes, you're missing the opportunity to change things for the better
Amy Tam@amytam01

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humans&@humansand·
Announcing the humans& hackathon! Hack with us this Saturday - come experiment and build AI apps to help people collaborate and communicate, work with creative folks, learn a bit about what we're building, and win cool prizes Apply here: luma.com/2pbif8t9
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Eric Zelikman
Eric Zelikman@ericzelikman·
@EthanChoi7 anthropic’s first round was 124m in 2021. i’d say they’ve done ok since
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Ethan Choi
Ethan Choi@EthanChoi7·
I was trying to think the other day of any success stories of companies that have raised a monster round (100s of $ Ms or $1B+) out of the gate. Anyone have an example or two? 🤔 I had a hard time thinking of many tbh but can think of some blow ups where too much capital pre-PMF wasn’t great like Quibi ($1.75B before launch), WeWork ($12B before firming up of unit economics), etc… One case study might be @anduriltech that raised $127M seed but even other deep tech leaders like @SpaceX raised $20M Series A and @Tesla Series A was $7.5M. Not coming from a place of back-seat driving VC criticism but more of genuine curiosity for case studies… Obviously many stories still early and playing out Many good reasons that capital constraints at the early and mid-stages of a startup create a lot of positive behavior and externalities like scrappiness / efficiency / creativity… However, we are in a new AI and deep tech era where revenue growth and outcomes / possibilities are markedly different so I this approach can definitely work better now than in the prior era. For neo labs like @thinkymachines / @ssi / others, this is the only way to do it given the cost of research talent, $ needed for GPUs / compute for training, and not diluting founders too much so incentives are aligned but will be interesting to see how it plays out…
Garry Tan@garrytan

Big splashy pre-PMF rounds happen on big legible ideas and teams with social proof Don’t hate the player hate the game It doesn’t mean you can’t build a big co if you don’t have the right resume but it does mean you need to be 10x more legible through traction or clarity

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Eric Zelikman
Eric Zelikman@ericzelikman·
We will see people and organizations spend increasingly more time thinking about what to implement and how to implement it than actually implementing it. This will enable but also require new levels of collaboration
will brown@willccbb

with the latest models, i am now finding myself thinking about complex system design problems more, not less. the magnitude of what can be reasonably attempted is monumentally larger. you need to make sure you’re asking it to build the right thing.

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kipply
kipply@kipperrii·
@nabeelqu its kind of strange to me that this is the media default? i would expect the engagement maximizing incentive to try to sell the risks and pretend the world is ending
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Eric Zelikman
Eric Zelikman@ericzelikman·
on a slightly more serious note, we think for our mission product and research are inseparable. you cannot claim to build a human-centered lab without building something beautiful that people love. if you agree, you should probably apply
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Yuhuai (Tony) Wu
Yuhuai (Tony) Wu@Yuhu_ai_·
I resigned from xAI today. This company - and the family we became - will stay with me forever. I will deeply miss the people, the warrooms, and all those battles we have fought together. It's time for my next chapter. It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what's possible. Thank you to the entire xAI family. Onward. 🚀 And to Elon @elonmusk - thank you for believing in the mission and for the ride of a lifetime.
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Shayan
Shayan@shayan_·
Career update: I left xAI to start something new, closing my 7+ year chapter working at Twitter, X, and xAI with so much gratitude. xAI is truly an extraordinary place. The team is incredibly hardcore and talented, shipping at a pace that shouldn’t be possible. From the Home Timeline at X to Grok 2, 3, and 4 at xAI, I worked across product infra and model behavior post-training, from memory to coding infra, agents, and more. Pure startup mode, every day. Working closely with Elon across X and xAI, I saw what happens when you refuse to accept impossible as an answer. I learned to embody obsessive attention to detail, maniacal urgency, and to think from first principles. I’m deeply grateful to @elonmusk for the experience, to @wanghaofei for the trust and support throughout Twitter/X, and to @TheGregYang and @ibab for believing in me. And to the many incredible people I had the privilege to work with along the way, thank you! Now, I’m excited to take the leap and build something new, focused on accelerating science. More soon.
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Paul Quigley
Paul Quigley@pquiggles·
A little late but: I made my largest personal investment in years in this round. I was an investor in xAI and Anthropic when each were pre-product. Beyond h&'s research direction, what excited me was seeing the best aspects of each labs' culture (+early Google!) coming together
humans&@humansand

Today we introduce humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab. We believe AI can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other. At its best, AI should serve as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities

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@saurabh_shah2 @ShirleyYXWu @EthanChoi7 @anduriltech @SpaceX @Tesla @thinkymachines @ssi