4 captures, most recent first.
NEW: Former leading DeepMind researchers coming out of stealth w/ new startup aiming to build superintelligence, starting with autonomous coding agents.
Raised $130m from Lightspeed, CRV, Sequoia, Alex Wang, Reid Hoffman, at $555m valuation
bloomberg.com/news/articles/...
[Linked Bloomberg article thumbnail: two men seated on a couch in front of a window with a bridge and city skyline visible; caption overlay "Ex-DeepMind Researchers' New Startup Aims for ..."]
From bloomberg.com
Last edited 4:40 PM · Mar 7, 2025 · 22.6K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet about a stealth-mode AI startup founded by former DeepMind researchers raising $130M to pursue superintelligence via autonomous coding agents. Relevant to Nathan's tracking of frontier AI capability/funding trends and the race dynamics around AGI-focused startups.
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sesame exists because one of google's top distinguished eng got sick of the culture trying to suppress his ideas, so he dipped, & built something beautiful.
same story as the transformer. pretty interesting.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A tweet claiming the Sesame AI (voice/speech startup) origin story parallels the Transformer paper's origin — talented Google engineers leaving because internal culture suppressed their ideas. Commentary on big-lab talent drain and innovation-outside-incumbents narratives.
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@nearcyan
ai lead @elysian_labs
San Francisco, CA | near.blog
Joined May 2019
980 Following, 72.4K Followers
Followed by Artificially Intelligent ☠️, stochasm, and 147 others you follow
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near ✓ @nearcyan · Feb 8
half of the smartest people i've met have been at jobs they were vastly overqualified for having a bad time
55 replies, 150 reposts, 5K likes, 321K views
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near ✓ @nearcyan · Feb 8
among most common issue is smart zoomers thinking all jobs feel corporate and no fun, so they never truly search for good ones, they don't know they're real
17 replies, 11 reposts, 509 likes, 31K views
near ✓ @nearcyan · 15h
this is also why i keep an anime pfp in slack and will continue to do so.
2 replies, 99 likes, 14K views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Profile view of @nearcyan ("near"), AI lead at elysian_labs (the mystery account from the previous screenshot) — commentary on smart people being underemployed/miscalibrated about job satisfaction. Establishes who runs elysian_labs.
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@elysian_labs
A
Technology Company · Joined July 2022
15 Following, 3,487 Followers
Followed by Artificially Intelligent ☠️, wordgrammer, and 21 others you follow
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A ✓ @elysian_labs · Feb 7
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34 replies, 5 reposts, 141 likes, 8.something views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
Nathan viewing the sparse/cryptic X profile for "elysian_labs" (a mysterious technology company account posting only the letter "A") — likely tracking an anonymous AI-adjacent teaser account, a genre common in the AI-startup-hype ecosystem.
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