Arjun Mohan

Racing toward Enterprise Superintelligence @ Skyfall AI

Wharton MBA | Banker turned operator

[M13 @M13Company]

“@skyfallai is building what it says is the first enterprise world model, a type of AI that could reason through the complex decisions involved in running a business,” wrote @sarahklearman Klearman in @WSJVC’s newsletter this morning. 

She covered Skyfall’s mission to build AI that could give rise to the first autonomous enterprise + their plans for their first acquisition by the end of August. 

Meet Skyfall at https://t.co/v9mZld0VXa

[Ian Berlot-Attwell @IanBerlot]

Very exciting to see our work and vision in the Wall Street Journal! It's an incredible privilege to be working towards the dream of a post-scarcity society.

[Arjun Mohan @arjunmhn]

@spisallyouneed @skyfallai @WSJ Working on the next step change is a rollercoaster but never a boring day

[Sam Pasupalak @spisallyouneed]

Yesterday, we came out of stealth at @skyfallAI in Forbes and today we're excited to announce that Skyfall AI is featured in the @WSJ's newsletter.

We believe in a utopian world that will be achieved over the next decade, where humans will work in their own creative interests in space exploration, sports, arts or philosophy while machines will do all the mundane operational tasks. We want to free humanity from all the monotonous boring operational tasks that they spend their daily lives doing.

The only way to achieve this vision is via creating autonomous enterprises, i.e., companies that can run by themselves with minimal human intervention. After 15 years of building in the AI space, one thing is certain. LLMs are static systems that fail at

- Long horizon planning tasks
- High consequential decision-making
- Sample efficiency
- Dynamic environment adaptation

These skills are required by a business to survive and grow. Unfortunately, LLMs are not designed for the real world constraints of running an organization.

Our solution is Enterprise World Models grounded in Continual Learning and World Modeling. We're taking a fundamentally different approach because we have always believed in 0 to 1 research, and not incremental n+1 RL fine tuning.

We are acquiring SaaS businesses to prove our thesis for creating AI systems for the post scarcity world. This is a call to all SaaS founders to submit your company if you’re interested (🔗 in comments)

Thank you Sarah @sarahklearman for covering our story on @WSJ

[Mike McCauley @mmccauley]

15 yrs ago @spisallyouneed and I were building our companies side by side @UWVelocity.

His intensity + vision was inspiring and hard to miss.

Then it was an AI lab MSFT bought for $160M.

Now: AI that runs a company autonomously.

Proud to back @skyfallai via @GarageCapital.

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

1/ Congrats to @SkyfallAI on coming out of stealth. Sam Pasupalak (@spisallyouneed) and Kaheer Suleman built Maluuba (acquired by Microsoft in 2017), working alongside RL pioneers years before the rest of the industry caught up. Now, they're back to solve a harder problem. 🧵

[mo @momusbah]

proud to see skyfall come out of stealth

I've seen Sam make the impossible happen for 15+ years:
- build a top frontier AI lab, sell to Microsoft for 9 figures
- summit the highest peaks on earth
- now build the first real autonomous enterprise company

keep watching this space.. lots more to come

[Mikael Berner @mikaelberner]

I've known @spisallyouneed for years and have enjoyed seeing him iterate on a huge problem. Sam and team built Maluuba from a Waterloo classroom project into one of Microsoft's most important AI acquisitions; now they are going after something way harder. Enterprise world models to help run the Enterprise! Second-time founder with so much drive and energy to get this done; they have the determination to figure this out. So thrilled to be a part of the journey. Welcome to the world Morpheus!

[Stephanie Palmeri @stephpalmeri]

Authentic, relentless, inevitable. You can also read more @NextViewVC's investement in @SkyfallAI and why I was compelled to back @spisallyouneed at inception on the @NextViewVenture blog. 📖

https://t.co/26O4xZDtim

[Naveen Rao @NaveenGRao]

Awesome to see some big bets are being followed. And I'm grateful to be part of the journey to build world models for the business world!

[Rishabh @Rixhabh__]

There are plenty of AI labs improving today's AI.

Very few are trying to build what comes next.

That's what makes @skyfallai interesting.

Led by Sam Pasupalak @spisallyouneed, who built and sold Maluuba to Microsoft for $160M, the team is focused on Continual Learning and World Models instead of simply scaling LLMs.

At Maluuba, Sam worked alongside Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton on foundational deep learning research.

Now he's tackling some of AI's hardest problems: long-horizon planning, data inefficiency, and making AI reliable in dynamic real-world environments.

Skyfall is positioning itself as a neo lab building toward the first Autonomous Enterprise.

It's a different bet from most of the industry, and one worth watching.

[Ian Berlot-Attwell @IanBerlot]

We're doing some really cool work at Skyfall AI with an eye at enterprise automation via world modelling; it's incredible to see Forbes reporting on us!

https://t.co/sEjsdxI1if

[Samir Kumar @sk121]

i’ve known @spisallyouneed and Kaheer for over 14 years and they are two of the highest grit founders i have ever met. @skyfallai is taking on an ambitious mission of building latent space world models for digital twinning enterprises. Touring Capital is excited to support you!

[D-Coder @Damn_coder]

Most AI labs are still racing to build better LLMs.

@skyfallai is taking a more ambitious path by focusing on continual learning and world models.

They are building the first Autonomous Enterprise using World Models and Continual Learning.

The company is led by Sam Pasupalak , who previously built Maluuba and sold it to Microsoft for $160M

Before that, he worked alongside Turing Award winners Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton on foundational deep learning research.

It's a very different direction from where most of the industry is heading, and one worth watching.

[M13 @M13Company]

Some founders follow technology trends. Others create them.

We invested in @skyfallai because @spisallyouneed has a rare track record of seeing the next frontier before it becomes consensus. Sam previously co-founded Maluuba, the pioneering AI research lab acquired by Microsoft in one of Canada’s largest technology exits. The team went on to become the foundation of Microsoft AI in Canada, helping shape the company’s early AI development and deployment at global scale.

Years ago, Sam recognized that LLMs would not be continual learners. Rather than optimize around that limitation, he built a research lab around a new world model architecture designed for true enterprise intelligence in an ever-evolving reality.

Today, Skyfall emerges from stealth with an ambitious mission: building the first autonomous enterprise.

Its first research platform, Morpheus, gives the industry its first real test of whether AI can reason through the complexity of a living business, not a simulation that resets every few minutes.

Congratulations to Sam, Kaheer Suleman, Sumit Pasupalak and the entire Skyfall team. We're proud to support Skyfall’s foundational work to expand what's possible for enterprise AI.

Read about Skyfall in @Forbes: https://t.co/TOajQDsC4s @morgan_blumberg

[Arjun Mohan @arjunmhn]

@skyfallai Lets do this team

[Arjun Mohan @arjunmhn]

@spisallyouneed @Yoshua_Bengio Lets do this team

[Sam Pasupalak @spisallyouneed]

Around 15 years ago, Kaheer Suleman and I started Maluuba with the vision of building Universal Turing Machines. Back then, we were one of the pioneer research labs building foundational modules of deep learning and Reinforcement learning with Turing award winners @Yoshua_Bengio and @RichardSSutton. There was no AI hype then, as there is now. Those were the good old days of doing pure scientific research unlike the n+1 research that we see today. Maluuba was later acquired by Microsoft and became @MSFTResearch Canada.

Grounded in that same mission, we're finally ready to introduce @skyfallai to the world after a lot of experimentation in stealth over the last year. We're a frontier neo lab building the first Autonomous Enterprise by moving beyond the current LLM paradigm.

For the last 5 years, the foundational model market has relied on a single paradigm: scaling laws for LLMs - more data, more compute, bigger models. However, the real world is messy and much more complicated. In order to achieve our long term vision, the next generation of AI models requires a different approach. Skyfall is solving the hardest open problems in frontier AI: long-horizon planning, data inefficiency, and brittle performance in dynamic real-world environments.

To achieve the team's vision of a completely autonomous enterprise, the team is developing a next-generation frontier model (Enterprise World Models) using Continual Learning and World Modeling. Enterprise World Models can simulate the multi-layered consequences of strategic business actions. Our approach unlocks a new category in the foundation model market. To prove it, we're introducing Morpheus, a Continual Reinforcement Learning platform for AI researchers.

I'm building this company with the people I trust the most: my longtime friend Kaheer Suleman (prev. Co-Founder of Maluuba) and my brother @omgiamgod (prev. YC founder). Sumit and Kaheer are the first principles thinkers I can trust to go to the end of the world with to achieve the mission impossible together. Together with a stellar team of 25 researchers and engineers, we're pushing a new frontier in AI forward.

We unpacked our long term vision in today’s Forbes feature 🔗- read it to see what we’re building toward. Thank you so much Victor Dey for the interview.

To achieve our goal of enterprise world models, we are soliciting bids to acquire small SaaS startups (up to $1M) and fully automate them. If you’re interested, submit your business here: https://t.co/w8ayopZFLH

Finally, thank you to our investors and advisors for believing in our vision since day one: @Fidelity , @sk121 (@touringcapital), @karam_n and @chrisarsenault (@inovia), @morgan_blumberg (@M13Company ), @stephpalmeri (@NextViewVC ), and @michaellitt and @mmccauley (@GarageCapital ), @jennydhe, @fchollet @NaveenGRao and so many others for supporting us in this journey.

[Skyfall AI @skyfallai]

We're excited to announce that Skyfall has emerged from stealth.

For years, the foundation model market has relied on a single paradigm: scaling laws for LLMs - more data, more compute, bigger models. However, we believe the next generation of AI models requires a different approach. Skyfall is solving the hardest open problems in frontier AI: long-horizon planning, data inefficiency, and brittle performance in dynamic real-world environments. To achieve the team's vision of a completely autonomous enterprise, the team is developing a next-generation frontier model using Continual Learning and World Modeling.

Our CEO and Co-Founder Sam Pasupalak (@spisallyouneed) shares what's next for Skyfall and why we're building a new category of frontier AI.

Read the full announcement to learn more about our vision and how we're addressing the foundational gaps in today's AI systems.

PS: we also announced something big 👀 in the article

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

https://t.co/9ujCmLs3lQ