@chrisbarber: I asked people which neolabs under $10B have the highest talent density: 32 votes: Core Automation (@MillionInt, @_aroh…
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A community poll ranks young AI labs under $10B valuation by talent density, with Core Automation, Periodic Labs, and Flapping Airplanes topping the list, alongside a disclosure of the pollster's investments.
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I asked people which neolabs under $10B have the highest talent density:
32 votes: Core Automation (@MillionInt, @arohan)
26 votes: Periodic Labs (@LiamFedus, @ekindogus)
20 votes: Flapping Airplanes (@spectorb, @amspector100, @aidanmantine)
18 votes: Standard Intelligence (@G413N, @devanshpandey)
8 votes: Ricursive (@annadgoldie, @Azaliamirh)
5 votes each:
- Ineffable (David Silver)
- Mirendil (@bneyshabur, @HarshMeh1a, @shayan_, @tararezaeikh)
- Recursive (@RichardSocher, @rockt, @timshi_ai, @josh_tobin, @CaimingXiong, @jeffclune, @tydsh, Alexey Dosovitskiy)
3 votes each:
- Applied Compute (@ypatil125, @rhythmrg, @lindensli)
- Isara (@ezhang7423, @hegasz)
- Prime Intellect (@vincentweisser, @johannes_hage)
2 votes each:
- Elorian (@AndrewDai, @yinfeiy, @SethInternet)
- Goodfire (@eric_ho, @DanJBalsam, @banburismus_)
- Inherent (@tantumscollins, @edwardfhughes, @LouisKirschAI, @kallyaleksiev)
- Trajectory (@rronak_, @QuantumArjun, @MichaelElabd)
- World Labs (@drfeifei, @jcjohnss, @BenMildenhall, @chlassner)
People couldn’t pick a company they work at or founded. Disclosure: I’m a small investor in Applied Compute, Factory, Standard Intelligence, Trajectory and Wafer. I didn’t vote.
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(part 2) I asked people which neolabs under $10B have the highest talent density:
Full list: http://frontierlist.com/neolabs
1 vote each:
- Biography
- Chai Discovery (@joshim5, @jackdent, @Mattmcpartlon1, @j_boitreaud)
- CTRL-G (@GregoireGambatt, @pacovilletard)
- Emulate (@jparkerholder, @MattMcGill_, @philipjohnball)
- Engram (@dan_biderman, @EyubogluSabri, @RealJessyLin, @jxmnop, @scott_linderman, Chris Ré)
- Factory (@matanSF, @EnoReyes)
- Fulcrum
- General Intuition (@PimDeWitte, @EloiAlonso1, @AdamJelley2, @micheli_vincent, Iggy Harmsen)
- Isomorphic Labs (@demishassabis)
- Olo Din (@mishayagudin)
- Pantheon (@calixo888, @Jannikschg)
- Sakana AI (@hardmaru, @YesThisIsLion, @renitomail)
- Simile (@joon_s_pk, @msbernst, @percyliang)
- Stealth
- Stealth text-diffusion lab (ex-GDM)
- TypeSafe (@CompleteSkeptic, @EGafni, @hackgoofer)
- UniversalAGI (@aha_ml)
- Wafer (@gpuemi, @gpusteve)
Thanks to everyone who voted: Charlie Songhurst @luke_drago_ @daniala @herbiebradley @jacobrintamaki @phoebeyao @eplou5 @tmychow @evanjconrad @brandonguo @nicoup @dlevine815 @sujaihiremath @nratliff9 @danielchingwq, and:
Thanks to: @calvinchen @iamashtonchew @thezacharyyu @vincentweisser @ypatil125 @anjalisardana @mmaaz_98 @quantbagel @ishanjmukherjee @Yngkvn @forwarddeploy @SeanZCai @AlfredoAndere @shaped @Kshitijjkapoor, and:
Thanks to: @aurielws @matthewjsargent @jecdohmann @ibragim_bad @sarahzengy @aashaysanghvi_ @mileswhen @MikayelK @mokshith @gleech @rohan__sanjay @harry_sainii @QuantumArjun @mykytamudryi @RealJessyLin, and:
Thanks to: @mackaygg @GovViz @DanielUng19 @RohunSaxena @krishaymukhija @danielrupawalla @sid_potdar_ @sincethestudy @DionDong1 @josancamon19 @ckxyz_ @ryanhu20 @alisabets @joeybesgen @Ili6a_, and:
Full list: https://frontierlist.com/neolabs
Thanks to: @echinaceous @_kelsey_pool @chenxcynthia @anandnk24 @ramya_iyer1 @gabrielnoya7 @pajeeter_parker @sabhyac267 @adi_baradwaj @debnilsur @bertgodel
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