Private science & technology investor
Santa Fe, NM
Joined April 2008
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"Board looks like a sleek 24-inch coffee-table screen, but it behaves more like a playground. You drop real pieces – a sponge, a spaceship, a robot, depending on the game – onto the surface, and it reacts instantly, lighting up, buzzing, and somehow turning a room full of distracted people into an engaged group of happy competitors." — USA Today
Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform. Available today!! board.fun
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"We’re setting 10 years as our goal to have dexterity, be functional and useful and able to do some of the things that humans do." — Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems
wsj.com/tech/the-hands-probl…
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*New research*
LLMs as Strategic Agents: Beliefs, Best Response Behavior, and Emergent Heuristics
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When you ask Claude or GPT a strategic question, it's not just answering. It's 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 you first. In our new research, we caught frontier AI models forming beliefs about who they're talking to, then deliberately adjusting their reasoning depth to match.
+ Against humans? They self-limit to 2-3 levels of thinking - even when they can go to 9+.
+ Against other AIs? One model reasoned: "Since I'm playing against LLMs trained on human data, they'll probably play one level higher than humans, so I should go two levels higher."
Most surprising: when we pushed them to their cognitive limits, they invented entirely new coping strategies - heuristics we've never observed in humans or game theory.
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"Promise of precision medicine and immunotherapies for cancer care" via the perennially excellent @SamirNKhleif
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Irredeemably cool — congratulations, @ZennaTavares & @BasisOrg
We’re making the @BasisOrg organisation document public today. It’s less a charter and more a design doc—our spec for why a new kind of technology and research organisation is needed, and how to build it.
(link below)
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Learn more about @phantom_neuro's impressive $19M Series A. The largest in the prosthetics market.
Dr. Connor Glass is driving fantastic momentum down in Austin, Texas.
The company blog post, press release, and TechCrunch have more details.
phantomneuro.com/from-prosth…
prnewswire.com/news-releases…
techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/ph…
We’ve secured a $19M Series A led by @OttobockHQ_en to bring Phantom X to market & advance #neural interfaces for lifelike #prosthetic control. In a recent conversation with @TechCrunch's @IngridLunden, Dr. Connor Glass shared our story & what lies ahead: techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/ph…
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Congratulations to the ever impressive @S_Stantcheva on winning the John Bates Clark medal.
‘Harder to get than a Nobel, arguably.’
aeaweb.org/about-aea/honors-…
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Tremendously talented team and opportunity for those interested in building robots that live, work, and play by our sides
We’ve raised $30M to build robots that thrive in human spaces. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital, and Lux Capital, we’re growing fast—thanks to a wildly talented team that’s already made some serious magic happen. Come build with us! faunarobotics.com/
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Animals and robots in Nautilus
It turns out that building robots that can walk and run as speedily and fluidly as humans and other animals, over both short and long distances, is extraordinarily complex. nautil.us/why-animals-run-fa…
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Perfect for @Osmo_Labs, @awiltschko, and funder @wolfejosh to win @NewcomerMedia’s ‘Wackiest Startup Idea’ of 2024 award.
“We want people to agree with us — just later”
WSJ on smart glasses: wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/m…
@freethinkmedia episode with Jacob Segil of @AfferenceInc on haptics/touch: youtu.be/KGDWtPeMpDs?si=Gyfn…
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Stupendous update from @tasso and the @ActionIQinc team; it's hard to think of a founder who deserves it more. Καλή χρονιά.
⚡️💥BIG news dropping today! 💥⚡️
🚀 AIQ is merging with Uniphore, one of the fastest growing AI natives! 🚀
Why? To reinvent #CDP around #GenAI!
What does CDPs have to do with GenAI, you ask? A lot!
Here's couple hints...
The interface of the CDPs will transition from GUIs to text prompts. This requires almost a complete rethink of the CDP stack.
Beyond the interface, there's an even bigger shift: Marketers and Analysts will go from being CDP users (doers) to CDP Strategists; AI Agents will become the new CDP doers, taking care of business such as:
- autonomously defining new customer attributes from raw data
- autonomously producing new audiences that fit the strategy
- autonomously creating new customer journeys to execute the campaign
- autonomously testing the journeys and reporting results to the human user; or even doing 1-2 iterations on their own based on initial testing before they report back
Humans go from users to strategists, Agents become the new CDP "users".
This is such a broad and transformative vision that I believe no single CDP vendor can pull this off on their own; so we are merging with one of the fastest growing AI natives to help us execute that vision.
Huge thanks to the amazing ActionIQ team and customers for getting us this far. More big news to come, stay tuned!
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Inspiring founder Connor Glass, MD, and neurotech company @phantom_neuro are covered by @emilylmullin in @WIRED magazine. "Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required"
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Vinod and Khosla Ventures are possibly the longest, biggest, and best VC supporters of neurotechnology companies
Exciting to see this –
And learn how much Vinod likes skiing
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Astera launched applications for a uniquely structured residency program earlier today. Scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs interested in building public goods to accelerate science and technology are offered a good one-year salary, a budget for team members, access to a 24,000 H100 cluster, and pathways for follow-on funding for nonprofit or for-profit spinouts. As shared via the impressive @catehall.
