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 workforce, made up of brothers Ben and Asher Spector and co-founder Aidan Smith, is betting that radically extra data-efficient coaching might open the door to thoroughly new AI capabilities.
At present on TechCrunch’s Fairness podcast, TechCrunch AI editor Russell Brandon sits down with all three founders to debate why buyers wrote such a big verify for a lab with no product, what turns into attainable with radically extra environment friendly AI, and why they’re prioritizing creativity over credentials.
Take heed to the complete episode to listen to about:
- Why the Flapping Airplanes workforce is targeted on analysis first, commercialization later
- What the “neolabs” technology means for AI improvement
- How they plan to make AI fashions 1,000x extra information environment friendly. A touch? The workforce thinks the mind is “the ground, not the ceiling” for AI capabilities
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