Null Fellows

[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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[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

- Ship Muse Spark nine months later
- Go on stage at Meta Connect in camo Crocs and a $30 thrift-store shirt

the g @alexandr_wang

[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

🧵

[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

- Start a company “just for the summer” after freshman year
- Never go back
- Build Scale AI
- Become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24
- Sell 49% of your company to Meta for $14.3B
- Get hired to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs at 28

[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.

[Samuli Hartikainen @proactivepath]

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

[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

@ArtemKislukhin @proactivepath @aditmag @Daniel_Almi null nulled.

[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

spring sprang.
summer summered.
the fellows fellowed.

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[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

Nothing beats handwritten letters

[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

@aditmag no more cohorts

[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 :)

[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

@proactivepath {}

[Samuli Hartikainen @proactivepath]

We’re taking in 5 more fellows this year.

Then we’re closed for 2026.

Applications are now rolling. Founding or joining, if you’re going all in on your next thing, DM me.

[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

One year since pilot.

[Null Fellows @nullfellows]

Planes are cool

[Heart Aerospace @heartaerospace]

First Flight ✅

[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

[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

Berlin has always been crazy.

a playground for the youngest and boldest who dared to change the world.

so we flew the whole @nullfellows cohort out to a villa near the city for the weekend.

if you're <25 and building/daring to, this is your room. admissions are open.

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[Artem @ArtemKislukhin]

we are berlinmaxxing with {} founders this summer

just insane place - many young people building incredible things

if u r in Berlin and u r building/operating DM me