Daniel Gross | |
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 Photo of Daniel Gross | |
| Born | 1991 (32 years old) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Entrepreneur, Investor |
| Known for | Cue (search engine), AI Grant, Andromeda |
Daniel Gross is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Cue, led artificial intelligence efforts at Apple, served as a partner at Y Combinator,[1] and is a notable technology investor in companies like Uber, Instacart, Figma, GitHub, Airtable, Rippling, CoreWeave, Character.ai, Perplexity.ai, and others.[2][3][4]
In June 2024, Ilya Sutskever announced that he was starting Safe Superintelligence Inc. along with Gross and Daniel Levy, the former head of the "Optimization Team" at OpenAI.[5][6][7]
Time 100 has listed Gross as one of the "Most Influential People in AI".[8]
Career
Gross was born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1991.[9] In 2010, Gross was accepted into the Y Combinator program. At the time, he was the youngest founder ever accepted. Gross launched Greplin (later renamed Cue).[10]
In 2011 Forbes named Gross one of "30 Under 30" in the "Pioneers in Technology" category.[11] In 2011, Business Insider named Gross one of the "25 under 25" in Silicon Valley,[12] and in 2014, the site named him one of "30 under 30 Influential Young People in Tech".[13]
Cue
In 2010, Gross launched Greplin, a search engine designed to allow users to search online accounts (such as social media, email, and cloud storage) from one location without checking each individually. In 2011, Greplin raised $4 million from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. At 19, Gross was one of Sequoia's youngest founders.[citation needed]
In 2012 the company renamed itself to "Cue" and launched additional predictive search features.[14] In 2013, Apple acquired Cue for an undisclosed amount reported to be between $40 million and $60 million.[15]
Y Combinator
In 2017, Gross joined Y Combinator as a partner, where he focused on artificial intelligence, creating a dedicated "YC AI" program.[16]
Pioneer
In August 2018, Gross created Pioneer, an early-stage, remote startup accelerator and fund, focused on finding talented and ambitious people around the world.[17]
AI Grant & Andromeda
In 2021, Gross and Nat Friedman started making significant investments in the AI space,[18] as well as running a program that gives $250,000 in funding to AI-native companies called AI Grant.[3] In 2023, they deployed the Andromeda Cluster, a supercomputer cluster consisting of 2,512 H100s GPUs for use by startups in their portfolio.[19][20]
References
- ^ Seibel, Michael (January 10, 2017). "Welcome Daniel, Nicole, Stephanie, Steven and Tatyana!" (Press release). Y Combinator. Retrieved October 12, 2018.
- ^ Cowen, Tyler (September 1, 2022). "A Conversation on Talent".
- ^ a b Clark, Kate (June 20, 2023). "Billion-Dollar AI Venture Fund Offers Elusive Nvidia Chips to Win Deals". The Information. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
- ^ CoreWeave (December 4, 2023). "CoreWeave Announces Secondary Sale of $642 Million". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
- ^ "Safe Superintelligence Inc". SSI. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company". TechCrunch. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Levy". Stanford. 19 June 2024. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ "TIME100 AI 2023: Daniel Gross". Time. September 7, 2023. Retrieved 2024-06-20.
- ^ "Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success". Farnam Street. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- ^ Yasmine, Fatema (4 March 2011). "Greplin Founder Daniel Gross on his amazing story behind building the company [Interview]". The Next Web. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Barret, Victoria (December 21, 2011). "30 Under 30: Technology". Forbes.
- ^ Shontell, Alyson (October 18, 2011). "25 And Under: 25 Hot Young Stars In Silicon Valley Tech". Business Insider.
- ^ Barret, Victoria (May 2, 2014). "30 Under 30: Technology". Business Insider.
- ^ Gannes, Liz (June 18, 2012). "Greplin Recasts Itself as Cue, an Intelligent Personal Assistant App". AllThingsD.
- ^ Tsotsis, Alexia (October 3, 2013). "Apple Buys Cue For Over $40M To Compete With Google Now". TechCrunch. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
- ^ Kolodny, Lora (March 19, 2017). "Y Combinator has a new AI track, and wants startups building 'robot factory' tech to apply". TechCrunch.
- ^ Lohr, Steve (August 9, 2018). "Wanted: 'Lost Einsteins.' Please Apply". Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "nfdg". nfdg.com. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
- ^ "Andromeda Cluster". June 20, 2023.
- ^ Barr, Alistair (June 13, 2023). "Nvidia GPUs are so hard to get that rich venture capitalists are buying them for the startups they invest in". Business Insider.
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