Increasingly convinced human taste and ideas are going to become more valuable than ever in the age of AI. But can taste be taught? Feels like the people that are excellent at crafting incredible human experiences are going to become bigger superstars than they already are.

And this whole time I thought it was my Korean skin. #AsianDontRaisin

Huge congrats EquityZen Atish Davda Phil Haslett on being acquired by Morgan Stanley! Coming together to better serve the entire private markets ecosystem - from private companies + their employees to all investors. 🚀🚀

Congratulations to our portfolio company, EquityZen, for this major step forward! Since our first investment in 2013, the company has grown to more than 800,000 registered users and has facilitated transactions across over 450 companies. More on Bloomberg:

A viral moment of Nvidia’s Jensen Huang having chimaek (fried chicken and beer) in South Korea may have made investors hungry as well. Huang sent Korean fried chicken stocks soaring after his outing with Samsung's Jay Y Lee and Hyundai's Chung Euisun bloom.bg/3LiTVPw

This is extremely dangerous Lan Xuezhao! Just downloaded and cart already filled. 😬🛍️

Excited to announce Sakana AI’s Series B! 🐟 From day one, Sakana AI has done things differently. Our research has always focused on developing efficient AI technology sustainably, driven by the belief that resource constraints-not limitless compute-are key to true innovation.

Go go go hardmaru Llion Jones Ren Ito + the entire Sakana AI school! I would say "team", but a fish theme was more fitting. 🐟🐠🐡

Others chase bigger models. Sakana AI is building nature-inspired, self-evolving systems. They’ve raised $135M Series B to accelerate R&D, expand applied AI, and build a sustainable ecosystem. Congrats to hardmaru, Llion Jones & Ren Ito! sakana.ai/series-b/

We are hosting a luncheon for researchers next week and there’s already over 500 RSVPs! If you’re at NeurIPS2025, please join us. I’ll be moderating a panel with some of the leading AI researchers, and meet others in the field. RSVP in link below! 500 Global

Thank you Derek Andersen for this heartfelt conversation on this latest episode of Divot! So much fun to reunite after many years at 500 Global HQ - feels like no time has passed. 💙

What a week we had at NeurIPS Conference, the epicenter of cutting-edge AI research! From over 1,000 applications, 500 Global's U.S. investment team selected 60 exceptional researchers at the frontier of AI from Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Princeton University, and leading labs at Google DeepMind,

As AI reshapes the internet, trust is quickly becoming one of its scarcest resources, and also one of its most valuable. Verisoul is tackling that challenge head-on by helping companies confidently distinguish real users from fraud, fakes, and bots. Since commercialization,

Today we introduce humans&, a human-centric frontier AI lab. We believe AI can be reimagined, centering around people and their relationships with each other. At its best, AI should serve as a deeper connective tissue that strengthens organizations and communities

Sometimes you feel compelled to do things. At the University of Michigan, I was drawn to artificial intelligence, what could be more appealing than studying what thinking was? and how could we make something that really thought? So I did my PhD in Computer Science focusing on AI,

Thrilled to see AI helping humans be the best we can be. If you want to tackle some big opportunities, reach out to the amazing team at humans& Georges Harik Eric Zelikman

To make the sort of AI we envision, we’re building a new class of training environments and RL methods. We come from xAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Reflection, AI2, Stanford, and MIT. Reach out if you’re interested in joining.