Sequoia Capital backs Flapping Airplanes' data-efficient AI research lab

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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• Aidan Smith
• Andrej Karpathy
• Asher Spector
• Ben Spector
• Dwarkesh Patel
• Flapping Airplanes
• Georgia Tech
• Neuralink
• Richard Sutton
• Sequoia Capital

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