Riley Munks

PR for startups and VCs. Formerly at @NFX, @VSCPR, @theBICOgroup, and @apcoworldwide.

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

Today @Recursive_SI emerges from stealth to build self-improving superintelligence.

Founded by @RichardSocher, @_rockt, @jeffclune, @timshi_ai, @tydsh, @CaimingXiong, Alexey Dosovitskiy & @josh_tobin_, @aixventureshq backed them from day one.

The company is building AI that safely improves itself, in an open-ended process of automated scientific discovery.

Read more in the @nytimes: https://t.co/h0kBRB1Igy

[Alex Shan @alexshander03]

We’re launching @JudgmentLabs today and announcing $32M in funding.

As AI agents take on more of the work that creates economic value, they generate massive amounts of production data: the clearest record of how they behave with users, software, and the real world.

Judgment builds infrastructure for improving AI agents from production data.

[Moonlake @moonlake]

We are happy to announce that Moonlake AI has been named on the 2026 @CBinsights AI 100 list.

One of the 4 on infrastructure and world models. Read more here: https://t.co/gXpT7IqgDM

[Lerrel Pinto @LerrelPinto]

ARI is joining @Meta!

Over the past year, we have been building ARI (Assured Robot Intelligence) with the mission to build industry-grade physical AI for humanoids. The ARI stack is built on human experience, condensed into actionable tokens that can be rapidly adapted to real-world hardware.

But the most rewarding part of ARI has been the people. I feel truly blessed to have worked alongside some of the world's best roboticists, a top-notch investor pool led by @aixventureshq, and the many supporters pushing for us behind the scenes.

Starting next week, ARI will join the Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) to continue advancing frontier robotics models that advance personal superintelligence in the physical world. We have the potential to transform AI that can think and talk to AI that can do, assisting humans safely and reliably in the physical world.

To the many people behind the scenes who supported us: Thank you! This is just the beginning.

More in the Bloomberg article:

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

Really excited to moderate a panel hosted by @aixventureshq and @AnthropicAI discussing how AI-enabled services will rebuild businesses across legal, consulting, and marketing.

Join us on Wed May 6 by signing up for either in-person or virtually: https://t.co/tNp17Z76mu

[Riley Munks @realRileyMunks]

@rebecca_szkutak @a3automate Best of luck in this next chapter @rebecca_szkutak, was always so great working with you 🙌

[AIX Ventures @aixventureshq]

Join us on May 6 for a discussion on how AI-enabled services are poised to rewrite business playbooks across legal, consulting, and marketing.

The panel features AIX's @chrmanning along with executives and founders from @AnthropicAI, and leading AI service providers.

Sign up to join us in-person or virtually: https://t.co/ZdxwIHWNZj

[Riley Munks @realRileyMunks]

@chrmanning @Forbes @aixventureshq @perplexity_ai @Lovable @TollbitOfficial Thank you @RashiShrivast18 and @Forbes team for your work on this 🙌

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

Happy to have been a judge again for the @Forbes AI 50 list, a bellwether of AI companies pushing the industry forward.

Congrats to all this year's winners, including @aixventureshq portfolio companies @perplexity_ai & @Lovable and Brink List startups @TollbitOfficial & @WisprFlow.

https://t.co/f3VGaVru9p

[Riley Munks @realRileyMunks]

@bayareawriter Thanks for sharing this story @bayareawriter 🙏

[Mary Ann Azevedo @bayareawriter]

In 2023, Dave Haase was a CPA who had been running his own firm in the San Francisco Bay Area for several years when he saw a live demo of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Upon seeing the AI agent successfully file a tax return on the screen, the accountant realized: “My business is either dead in 18 months, or this is the tool that helps save it.”

So he founded Juno, a tax prep automation startup. Today, the company is announcing it has raised $12M in seed funding led by @bonfire_vc.

Read more details in the @crunchbasenews article in the comments.

[AIX Ventures @aixventureshq]

This week GP @chrmanning and @moonlake founder @sunfanyun joined @swyx ​at @latentspacepod to discuss how the road to AGI begins with gaming.

Watch here: https://t.co/5DKhq56ko3

[Nomadic AI @nomadicai]

🚀 We raised $8.4M from TQ Ventures, Pear VC, Jeff Dean, Scott Wu, and others who believe visual data infra is the defining bottleneck in physical AI!

[Niko Bonatsos @bonatsos]

No more manual research needed thanks to @annarmonaco and her team at @paradigmai!

[Anna Monaco @annarmonaco]

Today we’re launching the newest version of @paradigmai

When we started Paradigm, the goal was never to tack AI onto existing spreadsheets. It was to build a new type of interface that does the work for you.

Now we’re pushing that vision much further.

Workflows turn Paradigm into a system that runs research processes for you.

Connect your CRM, existing spreadsheets, Slack, email, and internal data, and let Paradigm continuously run the research workflows your team already does.

Same intuitive interface. But now a system of action.

If you tried Paradigm before, try it again.

Manual research is now a competitive liability.

[Markus J. Buehler @ProfBuehlerMIT]

After decades at MIT studying how nature builds - from spider silk to bone to nacre - I've become convinced of something: the biggest barrier to scientific progress isn't knowledge, it's connection. The insights we need already exist, scattered across millions of papers and disciplines. They're just trapped in silos that no single human mind can bridge.

That's why I co-founded Unreasonable Labs together with Yuan Cao: to build superintelligence for knowledge discovery.

Today we're coming out of stealth with $13.5M in seed funding led by @PlaygroundGlobal, with participation from @aixventureshq, @e14fund, and MS&AD Ventures.

We're building a system that doesn't just retrieve information but reasons across it - connecting disparate ideas to generate genuinely novel hypotheses grounded in physical reality.

The genesis of Unreasonable itself came from the kind of serendipity we're trying to systematize. A chance encounter with a mathematician working on category theory became the theoretical bridge between language models and structured scientific reasoning - and ultimately the foundation for everything we're building. Our mission is to replace that serendipity with steerable reasoning, so that every scientist can make those leaps deliberately, not accidentally.

I'm grateful to our advisors - Kostya Novoselov, Robert Langer, and @Thom_Wolf - and to the extraordinary team making this possible.

We're not building AI that replaces scientists. We're building AI that lets them solve in weeks what used to take years.

The future is abundant innovation. Let's build it.

[Moonlake @moonlake]

https://t.co/vHXbGcwESD

[Moonlake @moonlake]

Introducing a world built by the Moonlake's world model. 🏙️

Most world models only allow for a limited action space.

Moonlake maintains multimodal states across physics, appearance, geometry, and casual effects and predict how they evolve under different actions. 👇

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

The AI-powered immigration law firm Ellis wants to simplify work visa applications for companies—and workers—with a new subscription service that starts at $2,000 a month. https://t.co/S3aKn8AOoi

[Tanay Kothari @tankots]

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake

It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri.

Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: https://t.co/TJhnUhDSLv

As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free.

Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy.

— Written with Wispr Flow