"There's just so much to do. So, the advances that we've gotten over the last five to ten years have been spectacular. We love the tools. We use them every day. But the question is, is this the whole universe of things that needs to happen? And we thought about it very carefully and our answer was no, there's a lot more to do."
"What we're doing is really a concentrated bet on three things. It's a bet that this data efficiency problem is the important thing to be doing. Like, this is really a direction that is new and different and you can make progress on it. It's a bet that this will be very commercially valuable and that will make the world a better place if we can do it."
Flapping Airplanes is an AI lab founded by Ben and Asher Spector and Aidan Smith, focused on developing less data-hungry methods to train foundation models. The lab targets the gap between current models trained on vast corpora and human learning that requires far less data, treating data efficiency as a core research direction. The founders believe improvements will be commercially valuable and have secured $180 million in seed funding to pursue this concentrated bet with a creative, relatively inexperienced team aiming to explore novel approaches inspired by the human brain.
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