1/ 18 months into @pluralplatform, we’ve raised a new €400M fund. This is an endorsement of the first 26 teams we’ve backed and the level of ambition now emerging from Europe:
"I myself barely look at raw code anymore, and struggle to maintain the discipline to engage deeply with the model's explanations and proposals throughout the day"
Dan Selsam is a current OpenAI capabilities researcher. (since 2022) He was my boss for a while. He doesn't have a twitter account but has made this public statement of his views on AI risk and sent it to me to share:
Dan Selsam's Personal Statement on AI Risk:
I have been
"the runaway trend of people in our industry (tech) being increasingly unwilling to entertain or have thoughtful discourse around points of view that threaten their bags or critique the views they have levered aggressively to in order to accumulate capital"
I actually don't think we will have extinction level AI event in the next 20 years but despite having nothing that leads me to believe Brad is a bad guy or angry person (I think Invest America is truly amazing/awesome and credit to him), I do think it's somewhat
I love how uncompromising Hélène Huby is. One of the most hardcore founders in Europe.
"we will not be relevant without a massive rocket at a massive cadence."
Plural, is by far, one of the most impressive and most interesting VC firms in Europe.
Their mission has always been to back companies that could have a genuine GDP impact in Europe.
If you look at their portfolio they really do back insanely unconventional founders building
