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Daniel Gross

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[AI]: Daniel Gross is an entrepreneur and investor known for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and search technology. He is the co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc., a company focused on developing safe superintelligence systems. Additionally, Gross co-founded Cue, a search engine that was acquired by Apple in 2013.

Between 2013 and 2017, Gross led various AI and search initiatives at Apple. He is also recognized for his role as an investor in several prominent startups, often collaborating with Nat Friedman. His investment portfolio includes notable companies such as Instacart, Coinbase, GitHub, Airtable, Figma, Rippling, Gusto, Notion, Deel, CoreWeave, Weights and Biases, and Character.ai.

Earlier in his career, Gross served as a Partner at Y Combinator, where he initiated the organization's AI program.

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Early Career

Daniel Gross is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded the search engine Greplin (later renamed Cue) as a teenager. Gross's company Cue was acquired by Apple in 2013. Gross then led Machine Learning efforts at Apple until he left in 2017 to join Y-Combinator as a partner.

Y-Combinator

At Y-Combinator, Gross heads up all things YC AI. He founded the AI Grant Fellowship and now leads the Pioneer Accelerator. Gross has also made several investments through Y-Combinator, including in OpenDoor, Cruise (acquired by GM), Gusto, and Github.

Andromeda

In 2023, Gross, along with fellow investor Nat Friedman, built Andromeda, a collection of cutting-edge chips weighing 7,255 lbs and costing around $100 million. Gross and Friedman trade access to these chips in exchange for equity in AI startups.

Investment Philosophy

Gross predicts that the smart money in AI will be in doing monotonous labor with text, extracting things from PDFs, and organizing information. He is always on the lookout for the next big thing and has picked many winners, such as Uber, Instacart, and Coinbase.