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[Seldon @seldonai]

@WorkshopLabs is joining @thinkymachines.

When @luke_drago_ and @LRudL_ came to us, they had a deck and a conviction. We offered to fly them to SF. Weeks later, they raised $2.5M during batch #1 of Seldon.

Congrats to the Workshop team. We're excited to see what comes next.

[Luke Drago @luke_drago_]

Cat’s out of the bag! Today @WorkshopLabs is joining @ThinkyMachines.

We started Workshop Labs to build towards a world where people still matter, even as powerful AI advances. I want to talk a bit about why this is the best move to serve that mission.

[UC Berkeley SCET @SutardjaCenter]

What does it take to build AI responsibly as the technology moves faster than ever?

From SCET Startup Semester to #AIsafety at @seldonai, Finn Metz shares why founders must take oversight, cyber resilience, and societal impact seriously .https://t.co/TC51jO8XvV

#ucberkeley

[Chad Byers @chadbyers]

Excited to lead a $4.2M pre-seed in @AsymmetricCyber with participation from others including Charlie Songhurst, @matthewclifford, @HalcyonFutures, Overlook Ventures, @join_ef, @seldonai, and AI and security leaders from Anthropic and Google DeepMind.

[Seldon @seldonai]

Seldon Batch #2 started in SF. 3 months. World talent dedicated to solving AI security. Time to build.

[Seldon @seldonai]

The infrastructure that determines whether AGI goes well won't build itself.

Seldon Batch: #2 mid-January through April in SF, up to 500k in funding.

https://t.co/jVuwpodDhU

[Seldon @seldonai]

Seldon Batch #2 is open.

Last batch: 4 teams raised $10M+, sold to xAI and Anthropic, got featured in TIME three times.

We're funding 5-10 startups building AGI security infrastructure. Up to $500K each.

Mid-January → April in SF.

Apply → https://t.co/jVuwpodDhU

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[Seldon @seldonai]

Who we want:

Ex-OpenAI/Anthropic engineers. PhD-level technical depth. Teams that can actually build the thing.

If you're still figuring out if you want to be a founder, this isn't for you.

[Seldon @seldonai]

Watch the full debate here: https://t.co/jwGXHSmWPw

[Seldon @seldonai]

Is it an emotional toll to work on AI safety?

Can we solve the biggest problems of AGI with tech startups?

Are for-profits better than non-profits in AI safety?

This, and much more is discussed in our recent panel debate with @ericho_goodfire, @bshlgrs, and Nick Fitz.

[Seldon @seldonai]

This past weekend, we've hosted a blast of a retreat full of deep discussions and solutions to AI safety.

Everyone agreed that the most awesome future is one where we can successfully enforce Tool AI and limit unstable autonomous generally intelligent agents.

[Andon Labs @andonlabs]

Andon Labs is incredibly grateful for our time in the first-ever @seldonai batch!

@EsbenKC , @MetzFinn81065 , and @nick_s_fitz put together a group of great people, and we learned a lot from our many discussions, most recently in the Yosemite mountains.

We, just like Seldon, think AI safety is the best startup opportunity today. If you share this view and want to build a startup, you should definitely apply to the second batch.

This current batch will end with a bang on Friday. Hope to see you there! (link to event below)

[Andon Labs @andonlabs]

Thanks to @elonmusk and the @xai team for inviting us to share the latest updates to vending bench. Grok 4 jumps to the top of the leaderboard.

[Loquacious Bibliophilia @LocBibliophilia]

One of the few things which feels like a pro-safety move is that @elonmusk is working with explicitly safety focused partners here with @seldonai .

Hopefully we will see a system card.