Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has invested in Flapping Airplanes, a startup aiming to develop data-efficient AI models. The company, founded by brothers Ben and Asher Spector along with Aidan Smith, focuses on attracting raw talent and pursuing research-driven breakthroughs rather than solely scaling existing models. Flapping Airplanes believes that data efficiency, not just compute power, is the key bottleneck for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). AI
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RANK_REASON Venture capital investment in a new AI research lab.
