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Harry dropped out of high school to work full-time on building humanoid robots, aiming to make them as common as the car. He spent the last four years developing a new kind of AI control system which takes the same inputs humans have and directly controls the robot, allowing it to adjust the way it walks depending on the terrain presented. This means it can walk almost anywhere humans can, unlike current competitors. Harry thinks we are close to a ChatGPT moment in robotics where we see reinforcement learning go to another level. Already now, he gets things done in ways that would require an old Boston Dynamics years and tens of millions of dollars. Harry won two awards in the BT Young Scientist competition - the same one as the Collison brothers - and was recently awarded the Emergent Ventures fellowship. Immediately after selection, Harry signed his first SAFE pre-seed investments for $250k. Molly is obsessed with finding and supporting outlier talent. She started her first micro VC

Grantees MAGNIFICENT GRANTS The Grantees* (*) The profile on each grantee, almost by definition, will be out of date in no time: Any description had some ephemeral merits at the time of the grant allocation. They serve as a quick blurb only. 2024 2024 Isaak Freeman Isaak Freeman He’s a standout even in the Bay, let alone starting from rural Austria, growing up in a country often provincial in its attitude towards immigrant communities. Checking with one of our friends, we received this lyrical pitch: "Anyone who’s met him knows his brilliance in technical domains (math, biology, neuroscience)

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