"Humans&'s eye-popping funding round comes amid a frenzy of early-stage AI deals, where valuations have soared despite limited products or revenue. Thinking Machines Labs, the AI firm started by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, raised $2 billion in a seed round earlier this year at a $12 billion valuation. Venture capitalists are pouring billions into startups led by prominent researchers, betting that the next breakthrough in AI will come from small, talent-rich teams."
""The most fundamental thing is that the models kind of don't understand the long-term implications of the things that they do and say, when you treat every turn of a conversation as its own game," he said, adding that many AI researchers are focused on the wrong things. "There's just so much talent out there, and I've always been a little bit disappointed that so much of that talent doesn't get used.""
Eric Zelikman left xAI in September and is pursuing a PhD in computer science at Stanford while raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for his new startup, Humans&. Humans& aims to build models that learn from and empathize with their users. The funding round comes amid a surge of early-stage AI deals and soaring valuations despite limited products or revenue. Venture capitalists are investing heavily in startups led by prominent researchers. Zelikman is known as lead author of a paper on language models teaching themselves to think before speaking and previously worked at Microsoft and Lazard. He says current models fail to grasp long-term implications and underuse available talent.
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