Daniel Almi

discovering and championing the greatest entrepreneurial minds of the next decades at {}

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@ArtemKislukhin @aditmag @proactivepath Lfggg

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

Only the beginning

[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

One year.

For exceptional young people, the right things still come down to luck. We spent the year trying to make that less random, by hand.

Thank you to every fellow who trusted us, and to everyone who helped.

Year two starts from our own corner of Helsinki.

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[distributed cognition @distcog]

We're excited to unveil VINCO, our frontier AI model trained to play and win 1v1 Catan.

We've secretly deployed it on the https://t.co/jVgSFYCfkd global leaderboard, where it has reached both the #1 and #2 positions, consistently beating every human world champion.

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@distcog Wow this is insane

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@plshdsnow This will be huge

[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

How to become Meta’s Chief AI Officer by 28,
@alexandr_wang guidebook:

- Be born in Los Alamos to two Chinese immigrant physicists at the national lab
- Score best in New Mexico on your first math competition in 4th grade
- Make the USA Computing Olympiad finals at 15

🧵

[distributed cognition @distcog]

Today distributed cognition exits out of stealth with backing by Verdict Capital.

Our mission is to replicate humanity's collective intelligence.
Read more: https://t.co/PqqgbLXbkc

Most of today's AI power is held in the hands of a few, who can choose what you're allowed to think and what you're permitted to do.

We stand on three substantially different foundational beliefs:
- You shouldn't ask permission for intelligence.
- Superintelligence will be a distributed collective.
- Humans are not meant to be relegated to a permanent underclass.

If we don't distribute intelligence, nobody will.

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@distcog So hyped, manifesto was an amazing read!

[Samuli Hartikainen @proactivepath]

none of this shows up on a CV, yet it’s exactly what we love seeing.

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@proactivepath If you’re a giant vegetable farming world champion, or similar, reach out

[adit @aditmag]

cohorts are gone.

if you've constantly done exceptional things, we're now accepting apps year-round. taking ~5 more outliers this year.

drop an app / show me the coolest thing you've ever built :)

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@aditmag {}

[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

you don't find out what you're capable of until someone next to you does something bigger.

{ } fellows, 2026 https://t.co/CSF0pa2Ess

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@ArtemKislukhin {}

[rowan @rowans_planet]

a weekend with {} @nullfellows

• get to know 20+ of europe’s most talented people in a huge villa

• visit a european billionaires offices for major medical device manufacturing (shhhh)

• hack until 3am for the love of the game building generative UI iMessage miniapps

�� watch spain argentina at leo’s apartment - viva espana!!!

• smash calisthenics and run to the park to stay active (love the {sports club} homies)

my final unspoken thought is to imagine the world in 10 years, then imagine how that villa in Berlin created it 🤩

[adit @aditmag]

if you're <25 and exceptionally ambitious, you should be in this room.

may the 10th be with you.

[Daniel Almi @Daniel_Almi]

@aditmag {}