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Radical Ventures backs Discovery Loop: strongest AI founding team ever targeting recursive self-improvement for science
The founding team (Jeff Dean, Oriol Vinyals, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le) is objectively the most accomplished in AI history with top citation rankings in both AI and distributed sys…
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Google remains AI behemoth despite top researcher departures due to structural advantages
Losing four of its most important AI leaders is a blow, but Google's deep talent bench, massive training data, compute scale, full-stack platform (TPUs, cloud), and search cash ma…
Radical Ventures passes on most neo labs; only backs exceptional teams like Discovery Loop at billion-dollar entry valuations
The firm evaluates nearly every 'neo lab' but declines the vast majority because billion-dollar seed valuations for pre-product companies with unclear business models and technica…
$ANTHROPICbullish· mediumrob toews
Anthropic proves neo lab risk/reward can pay off: from OpenAI spinout to trillion-dollar company in five years
Anthropic's trajectory from a 2019 OpenAI spinout raising at a few billion valuation to a trillion-dollar company demonstrates that exceptional founding teams in 'neo labs' can ju…