shaunbjohnson

Investing @224ventureshq.

Previously Founder at AIX Ventures, Product at Lilt, NimbleRx, PayPal. Husband & Father. He/Him. Views are my own.

[shaunbjohnson @shaunbjohnson]

@jiayq @OriolVinyalsML Thanks @jiayq! Great to have you in the community!

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@goodfellow_ian @224ventureshq Excited to work with you Ian!

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@MaximMatias1 @ylecun Hi Maxim message us via https://t.co/PNAqrWF8YS!

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@ptrackrman Thanks Peter!

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@fromshreyas we're at https://t.co/PNAqrWF8YS. message us there!

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[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

Google: "What if search… was all AI?"
DuckDuckGo: "What if we just let users choose?"

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

Here’s a piece by @goodfellow_ian, @sunfanyun, and me arguing that use of symbolic representations and game virtual world data offers the best path to building action-conditioned multimodal world models that enable reliable prediction and planning for long-horizon tasks.
The advantages of symbolic language representations in this context was also recently argued for in new work from @physical_int: https://t.co/aooV2WN1oY .

[shaunbjohnson @shaunbjohnson]

I've been waiting for this update @AravSrinivas! Many congrats to the entire Perplexity team!

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

Perplexity is now integrated into all Samsung Galaxy S26 phones. Every S26 device will have Perplexity pre-loaded with the wake word "Hey Plex". The devices come with three assistants: Perplexity, Bixby, Gemini. Bixby will also be powered by Perplexity's search-grounded LLMs.

[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. 👇

[marimo @marimo_io]

We have big news to share: marimo is joining @CoreWeave! We're doubling down on open-source and scaling molab with serious compute

Our mission is the same: to build the world’s best open-source notebook for working with data

Read the full announcement: https://t.co/BL1QFQW8N9

[shaunbjohnson @shaunbjohnson]

In the past five days I have spoken to five founders raising $1B+ early stage rounds. $1B+ capital raised. Not post money valuation.

[Sharon Lee @sharonal_lee]

Honored to be on the AI-powered gaming panel at TechCrunch Disrupt with @chrmanning.

We are dropping a few early Moonlake surprises here! 🕹️👾

Join us → https://t.co/gBJwwsH1XW

[Fan-Yun Sun @sunfanyun]

Let’s go @sharonal_lee

[shaunbjohnson @shaunbjohnson]

Come join us at @aixventureshq HQ for a panel with @chrmanning, @sharonal_lee, Taylor Hughes, & Russel Brandom discussing the latest AI trends in Gaming, Video, and VR.

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

Excited to host a panel Oct 28 at @aixventureshq, SF on the future of AI-powered gaming, video, and VR during @TechCrunch Disrupt.

Featuring @sharonal_lee, @moonlake; @taylorhughes, @HypernaturalAI; and moderator @russellbrandom, TechCrunch.

RSVP: https://t.co/D8ABVMQ4ao

[Fan-Yun Sun @sunfanyun]

😅 we are hiring, DM open

[Christopher Manning @chrmanning]

Excited to see @sunfanyun & @sharonal_lee launching @moonlake! I got to know them at @Stanford, both doing super-exciting work with 3D world foundation models. Games and simulations need not just visuals but world understanding, and that's where they're focused. Take a look!

[Fan-Yun Sun @sunfanyun]

I told my parents that I’d like to drop out of my cs phd program at Stanford a few months back.

They didn’t let me, we’re asian :)

So I graduated and started @moonlake.

@sharonal_lee and I saw urgency, and opportunities. Excited to share that we raised a 28 million dollar seed round to build the future for simulations and games.

Grateful for the angels @naval, @goodfellow_ian @stevechen, @JeffDean @rauchg, @emerywells, @JaredLeto, @chrlaf, alongside many more, and the venture partners that we are fortunate to work with: @moislamvc, Shaun Johnson, @chrmanning, Artem Barsukov, Elvin Hao, @mercebent, @veelarco and William Freiberg. If you're a founder and you're not partnering with them, you're making a big mistake.

Check out what we're about 👇

[Richard Socher @RichardSocher]

A new dimension of creativity unlocked by AI. Given that the games industry is larger than movies. I think this will be very exciting.