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Flapping Airplanes and the promise of research-driven AI
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TechCrunch
In BriefA new AI lab called Flapping Airplanes launched on Wednesday, with $180 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index.
The founding team is impressive, and the goal — finding a less data-hungry way to train large models — is a particularly interesting one.
Based on what I’ve seen so far, I would rate them as Level Two on the trying-to-make-money scale.
But there’s something even more exciting about the Flapping Airplanes project that I hadn’t been able to put my finger on until I read this post from Sequoia partner David Cahn.
But with so many companies already pointed in that direction, it’s nice to see someone headed the other way.