Outset Capital

Pre-seed and seed fund investing in AI startups at the earliest possible stage. Led by Ali Rohde, Josh Albrecht, and Kanjun Qiu

[Poetiq @poetiq_ai]

Our Metasystem built and optimized an LLM router. Automatically.

It beat other approaches at every price point.

It took 1 engineer 2.5 weeks from data collection to full results.

Only 12 hours of that was the Metasystem optimizing the router.

[Physical Intelligence @physical_int]

Announcing the beta release of the Pi API. We’ve partnered with companies across diverse industries to adapt our models to their robots and applications, from harvesting strawberries to assembling servers. Now we’re opening access to more teams.

[steve @gpusteve]

i'm sad to announce that our recent fundraising round did not go according to plan...

we initially planned to raise $18m.

we didn't end up getting that number.

we ended up raising a $40m series a instead.

co-led by @MarathonMP and @chemistry, with participation from @Wing_VC, @AMD Ventures, @outsetcap, @fiftyyears, and @ycombinator, and our existing investors doubling down on @wafer_ai. we are also joined by an incredible list of angels, including @JeffDean (CEO, @DiscoLoopAI), @rauchg (CEO, @vercel), @andyfang (CTO, @DoorDash), @kvogt (CEO, Bot), @akothari (COO, @NotionHQ), @eastdakota (CEO, @Cloudflare), @deepgramscott (CEO, @DeepgramAI), and more.

back to the kernel mines

[Poetiq @poetiq_ai]

Benchmarks are dead (for us).

Our RSI system makes benchmarks too easy.

Give ours a benchmark and it builds its own solution–then beats SOTA. We just did it on 6 at once: math, coding, planning, long-context, tool use, web apps. No human tuning.

[Ali Rohde @RohdeAli]

AI makes code cheap. Engineering judgment becomes the bottleneck: use boring tools, keep architecture simple, write as little software as possible.

New Vibes & Benchmarks w/ @joshalbrecht

[Pablo Hansen @thepablohansen]

Introducing Proliferate.

An open source Mac app for working with all your coding agents at once- Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, Cursor- in one workspace.

[Outset Capital @outsetcap]

@poetiq_ai Great work here poetiq team

[Outset Capital @outsetcap]

@poetiq_ai Great results @poetiq_ai

[Ali Rohde @RohdeAli]

"Don't call us an AI company."

@DakotahBlueRice just raised $47M led by @emergencecap for @Harper_Insure. Largest publicly disclosed Series A by a Black founder, ever.

Not selling AI into insurance. Becoming the brokerage.

[Outset Capital @outsetcap]

@medra_ai Huge! Congrats @medra_ai and @michellearning

[Outset Capital @outsetcap]

@danlovesproofs Very exciting! @danlovesproofs

[Ali Rohde @RohdeAli]

The future of software is software doing work on your behalf

Watch @pk_iv demo how @browserbase makes that possible — with open-source framework Stagehand, managed platform and now no-code builder Director 2.0

Already powering 1000s of apps like Perplexity, Clay and Vercel

[Outset Capital @outsetcap]

@olvrgln Very exciting!

[Paul Klein IV @pk_iv]

day in the life at the @browserbase office

https://t.co/nP6AENEtSP

[Paul Klein IV @pk_iv]

With this release, Stagehand is hands down the best browser automation framework.

It’s fast, reliable, efficient, and optimized for AI.

Watch the video below to see how we did it:

[Ali Rohde @RohdeAli]

Super proud of @nikhi1rao @awlk99 @getreflex on the release of Reflex Build

From prompt to production — all in pure Python

30% of the Fortune 500 already use Reflex for internal tools

Now with Reflex Build they can kick their Python development into warp speed

[Ali Rohde @RohdeAli]

Blown away by the exceptional talent coming out of @speedrun SR005!! Congrats to the entire a16z speedrun team and the 61 incredible teams that demo'd today.

[Kanjun 🐙 @kanjun]

Sculptor: the missing UI for Claude Code 🎨

Imagine running 5 Claudes in parallel, safely in containers, while you stay in flow. Then bring their work straight into your IDE to test/edit together.

This is how one developer ships like a team. Try it with Sonnet 4.5!

[Frederik Ebert @febert8888]

🚀 I’m excited to share a big milestone for Emancro!

We’ve successfully piloted our AI-powered robot at one of the leading US hospitals taking on one of the most critical and error-prone hospital logistics tasks: medication cabinet restocking.
At the core is GEDIA — our proprietary Generalizable Dexterous Intelligent Agent that gives our robots the ability to adapt and perform complex tasks at scale.

👉 Watch the robot in action: (https://t.co/g925s2L4Tx)
👉 Learn more about Emancro: (https://t.co/4k9EKUfiAq)

And this is only the beginning 🤖. We’re already developing our next-gen robot to expand into medical supply distribution, lab sample logistics, food, and linen services — on track to automate the majority of logistics tasks in hospitals and beyond.

[Outset Capital @outsetcap]

One of Outset's earliest bets is launching today! Congratulations @medra_ai on the launch.

Bringing AI into the lab is a bold step forward for biotech, and it’s exciting to see this vision come to life.

[Medra @medra_ai]

AI is not on track to eradicate disease in our lifetime.

Scientists need to generate more data, but they’re physically limited by how fast they can work.

That’s why we’re launching Medra: Physical AI in the lab, doing and optimizing real experiments.

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