This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI

AI lab Flapping Airplanes simply landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do one thing most labs have quietly given up on: making fashions be taught like people as a substitute of vacuuming up the web. The founding crew, made up of brothers Ben and Asher Spector and co-founder Aidan Smith, is betting that radically extra data-efficient coaching may open the door to thoroughly new AI capabilities. 

Right now on Trendster’s Fairness podcast, Trendster AI editor Russell Brandon sits down with all three founders to debate why buyers wrote such a big test for a lab with no product, what turns into doable with radically extra environment friendly AI, and why they’re prioritizing creativity over credentials. 

Hearken to the complete episode to listen to about: 

• Why the Flapping Airplanes crew is targeted on analysis first, commercialization later 

• What the “neolabs” technology means for AI growth 

• How they plan to make AI fashions 1,000x extra information environment friendly. A touch? The crew thinks the mind is “the ground, not the ceiling” for AI capabilities 

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