Congratulations to @224ventureshq co-founder @ylecun on being named to the @TIME 100 AI 2026 list.
Yann has spent four decades quietly building the foundations the rest of the field now stands on — from convolutional networks to his current bet, at Advanced Machine Intelligence, that world models are the path beyond today's LLMs.
What TIME captures, and what I get to see up close, is his conviction that the next chapter of AI won't be written by scaling what already works. It'll come from researchers willing to question the paradigm and build something new.
Lucky to be building alongside him. More to come from 224.
Yann has spent four decades quietly building the foundations the rest of the field now stands on — from convolutional networks to his current bet, at Advanced Machine Intelligence, that world models are the path beyond today's LLMs.
What TIME captures, and what I get to see up close, is his conviction that the next chapter of AI won't be written by scaling what already works. It'll come from researchers willing to question the paradigm and build something new.
Lucky to be building alongside him. More to come from 224.
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It was great to be back at @Bloomberg studios to chat with @TimStenove1g.
We covered quite a bit, but there's one thread worth amplifying for founders: the growing importance of having a non-consensus view. Essentially, an idea that doesn't seem plausible at first. People disagree with you. Investors leave the conversation disagreeing with the premise. But as the discussion progresses, the hypotheses that need to be tested become clear — and the result can be a category-defining company.
When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, startups raced to embrace the technology and build applications that weren't possible before. Fairly obvious applications, like note-taking, were pursued by many. But we're almost four years into this inflection point — the same ideas have been pursued by dozens (hundreds?) of teams — and yet 99% of entrepreneurs still have consensus ideas.
To be clear, you can pursue note-taking. Companies like @WisprFlow recently launched a note-taking app with clear reasons to win. But a consensus idea needs some special sauce — a unique angle that will open up, or create, a new category for your company.
We're always connecting with founders to discuss their ideas. Send me a dm.
bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
We covered quite a bit, but there's one thread worth amplifying for founders: the growing importance of having a non-consensus view. Essentially, an idea that doesn't seem plausible at first. People disagree with you. Investors leave the conversation disagreeing with the premise. But as the discussion progresses, the hypotheses that need to be tested become clear — and the result can be a category-defining company.
When ChatGPT launched in November 2022, startups raced to embrace the technology and build applications that weren't possible before. Fairly obvious applications, like note-taking, were pursued by many. But we're almost four years into this inflection point — the same ideas have been pursued by dozens (hundreds?) of teams — and yet 99% of entrepreneurs still have consensus ideas.
To be clear, you can pursue note-taking. Companies like @WisprFlow recently launched a note-taking app with clear reasons to win. But a consensus idea needs some special sauce — a unique angle that will open up, or create, a new category for your company.
We're always connecting with founders to discuss their ideas. Send me a dm.
bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
Google: "What if search… was all AI?"
DuckDuckGo: "What if we just let users choose?"
DuckDuckGo: "What if we just let users choose?"
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
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: pi.website/research/memory .
The advantages of symbolic language representations in this context was also recently argued for in new work from @physical_int: pi.website/research/memory .
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I've been waiting for this update @AravSrinivas! Many congrats to the entire Perplexity team!
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.
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
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. 👇
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. 👇
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
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: marimo.io/blog/joining-c…
Our mission is the same: to build the world’s best open-source notebook for working with data
Read the full announcement: marimo.io/blog/joining-c…
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In the past five days I have spoken to five founders raising $1B+ early stage rounds. $1B+ capital raised. Not post money valuation.
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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 → luma.com/ussnsf5f
We are dropping a few early Moonlake surprises here! 🕹️👾
Join us → luma.com/ussnsf5f
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: luma.com/ussnsf5f
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Let’s go @sharonal_lee
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: luma.com/ussnsf5f
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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.
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: luma.com/ussnsf5f
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
😅 we are hiring, DM open
Came to a Stanford event with @sunfanyun.. couldn’t get him to leave because too many recruits were trying to slide…
@moonlake
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
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!
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games.
Models are bottlenecked by practical t as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities.
At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about.
More in 🧵
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
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 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 👇
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 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 👇
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games.
Models are bottlenecked by practical t as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities.
At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about.
More in 🧵
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
A new dimension of creativity unlocked by AI. Given that the games industry is larger than movies. I think this will be very exciting.
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games.
Models are bottlenecked by practical t as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities.
At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about.
More in 🧵
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games.
Models are bottlenecked by practical t as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities.
At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about.
More in 🧵
Models are bottlenecked by practical t as Reinforcement Learning environments. Human self-expression is bounded by tools that let us create alternate realities.
At Moonlake, we are building a future where anyone can create interactive worlds, bring their child-like wonder to life, learn within them, and most importantly, share experiences with people we care about.
More in 🧵
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shaunbjohnson retweeted
Thrilled to see former @StanfordAILab students @sunfanyun and my own student @sharonal_lee today launching @moonlake, a new AI lab that lets anyone code interactive worlds in minutes.
@aixventureshq led their $28M seed along @thresholdvc, @nvidia Ventures, and leading angels including @stevechen and @JeffDean.
@RashiShrivast18 at @Forbes covers the news: forbes.com/sites/rashishr…
@aixventureshq led their $28M seed along @thresholdvc, @nvidia Ventures, and leading angels including @stevechen and @JeffDean.
@RashiShrivast18 at @Forbes covers the news: forbes.com/sites/rashishr…
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