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After founding a search startup at 17 that Apple acquired for $40 million, running YC's AI program as its youngest-ever partner, and co-launching AI Grant's $250,000 no-bureaucracy funding vehicle, Gross operates across every layer of the AI ecosystem simultaneously.
Daniel Gross is a researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs, having joined Meta's AI organization after years as one of the most active early-stage investors in artificial intelligence.
He previously co-founded the AI Grant program with Nat Friedman, served as a partner at Y Combinator leading its AI track, and sold his first company, Cue, to Apple in 2013.
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