We’ve raised 75m in new funding from Sequoia and Spark Capital—partnering with @sonyatweetybird, @MikowaiA, and @YasminRazavi, all of whom are deeply supportive of our long-term mission. We’ve also brought on angels & advisors including @karpathy, @tszzl, and @_milankovac_. ----- Our early results with FDM-1 moved computer use from a data-constrained regime to a compute-constrained one; this latest round of funding unlocks several orders of magnitude of compute scaling for that work. With the FDM model series we have a path to scale agentic capabilities through video pretraining, and we expect to achieve superhuman performance on general computer tasks in the same way that current language models have superhuman performance on coding tasks. We’re also now able to invest in the blue-sky research necessary to our long term mission of building aligned general learners. To realize the civilizationally transformative impacts of AI, models must generalize far out of their training distributions, actively exploring and building skills in new environments. This capability represents a substantial shift from the current paradigm of model training. We believe that current alignment techniques are insufficient to predictably and safely steer a model with human-level learning capabilities, and so we’re doing work to study small versions of this problem in controlled environments to develop a science of alignment for general learners. We’re a team of 6 people in San Francisco. We’re hiring world-class researchers and engineers to help us achieve our mission. If that’s you, please get in touch.

Launching the Alive Prize. $100K to build what makes you come alive. I've been fixated on a quote from Howard Thurman lately: "Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." We want to help more people find that feeling. aliveprize.com/

This past weekend was my first HackMIT as co-director, and it really was an incredible experience meeting the ~1500 participants including hackers, judges, mentors, and sponsors who we flew out to our campus for one epic weekend. Huge shoutout to all of our incredible sponsors and volunteers, but above all I am so so so grateful and proud of the entire HackMIT organization team and my insanely cracked and goated co-director @nettedjay. Seeing the fruits of our labor (or labour as janet would say) was super surreal and gratifying, and I can't wait to do it all again (but better) for Blueprint and @HackMIT 26!

We’re super excited to announce that HackMIT 2025 is happening Sept 13-14 and applications are now open! Priority decisions are due July 4th and Regular due July 25th. Info about mentor/judge applications coming soon! Find all the details on our website hackmit.org.

it's gonna be our best one yet. don't miss out! feel free to also dm me if you have questions

THIS is what i want in a lab expansion (i love the banana lounge 🥹)

how we're calibrating team to read thousands of hacker applications this year... it's not too late! apply by tonight at hackmit.org :)

“if biden dropped out so can i mom”

please pass this on! we're working on this with a lot of love and would be so glad to have cool people work with us – and even if you're not a sponsor you should keep an eye out for when our apps open at hackmit.org ;)

boston springbuds are humble, leafless things, hiding amidst the infinite fractals of the trees; you don’t notice anything until the geese and people are out in pairs and the sails are full mast. you watch the sun cast glitter on the water. and then it blooms: spring is here.

walked around boston yesterday and we just decided to try pat as many doggos as possible. 100% success with asking and 200% happiness found in doggos that we said hi to. there's so much joy in the world – you just have to ask to pet them :')