Thiel Fellowship
@thielfellowship
Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a two-year program for young people who want to build new things.
Welcome 2025 Thiel Fellows! WHO ARE THEY? Ferdinand Dabitz, Berlin, Germany - @FerdiDabitz Ivy is building the world trade bank — a global instant payments platform. Jackson Denka, Los Angeles, CA - @jacksondenka Azura is a trading platform that utilizes on-chain rails to…
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - @altcap (Altimeter Capital) - @AJ_Piplica + @Zsshore (Hermeus) - @zebulgar + @EnduroSat (Founders Fund) Thiel Fellow lightning round (@thielfellowship): - @CarloWKobe (Fizz) - @thewildstevenp (Orbit) - @Eliasfiz (Canopy Labs) -…
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Congratulations @BrendanFoody, @adarsh_exe and @suryamidha!
Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at…
Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game. We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research. Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!):
I'm very excited to announce that we've raised a $21.8M oversubscribed Series A! + a sneak peak into the absurd story of how Synex started 😅 techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/syn…
Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.
News: Mercor, an AI-powered talent marketplace, has raised $32 million in a Series A led by Benchmark at a $250 million valuation. The startup’s three 21-year-old Thiel Fellow founders tell @forbes that their AI interviewer has vetted 300,000 candidates. forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
We’re taking the biggest bet in AI - a chip that can only run transformers, but does so orders of magnitude faster than GPUs. Maybe attention *is* all you need…
Meet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s. Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,…
Meet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s. Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,…
How to spot a company that’s starting a new hype cycle instead of chasing an old one… 1. You wouldn’t describe the company as “the Uber for x” or “the Tinder for y.” A first-of-its-kind company can’t be categorized neatly in comparison to an existing company. 2. The founder is…
SO INCREDIBLY PROUD to share 2 HUGE updates: 1) The first baby was born using @OrchidInc technology — and he’s super cute 🥰 2) I tested my own embryos with Orchid — we got SO much information & l feel confident now 🚀 This is the future of how babies will be born!
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Introducing Nucleus, the health platform for your DNA. After 1,404 days of building, I’m proud to say @Nucleusgenomics provides the most complete look into your genetic risk for diseases that's ever been available. bit.ly/3xjemET Optimize your health by starting at…
Optimize everything — especially your health. Nucleus is now live at bit.ly/3TvHLDp We provide the most complete look into your genetic risks for diseases that’s ever been available. Preorder the Nucleus whole-genome DNA kit today.
THE THIEL FELLOWSHIP IN 2024 "Today's universities are as corrupt as the medieval Catholic Church. The Reformation is underway." - Peter Thiel This year’s class understands the importance of the present moment. They reject the well-worn paths of red tape, digital distractions,…
Welcome to the Fellowship! businesswire.com/news/home/2024…
