Daniel Gross | |
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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]
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]
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]
In 2017, Gross joined Y Combinator as a partner, where he focused on artificial intelligence, creating a dedicated "YC AI" program. [16]
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]
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]
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