Daniel Gross is an American
entrepreneur
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who co-founded
Cue, led
artificial intelligence
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efforts at
Apple
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, served as a partner at
Y Combinator
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Str ...
,
and is a notable technology investor in companies like
Uber
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,
Instacart
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,
Figma
FIGMA or Finnish Games and Multimedia Association was founded in 1999. It is the Finnish equivalent to Entertainment Software Rating Board
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,
GitHub
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,
Airtable
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Airtable is a spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database but applied to a spr ...
,
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, CoreWeave,
Character.ai
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,
Perplexity.ai
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, and others.
In June 2024,
Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is a computer scientist working in machine learning, who co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist of OpenAI.
He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning. He is the co-inventor, with Alex Krizhevsky an ...
announced that he was starting
Safe Superintelligence Inc.
Safe Superintelligence Inc. or SSI Inc. is an American artificial intelligence company founded by Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI's former chief scientist), Daniel Gross (former head of Apple AI) and Daniel Levy (investor & AI researcher). The company's m ...
along with Gross and Daniel Levy, the former head of the "Optimization Team" at OpenAI.
Time 100
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has listed Gross as one of the "Most Influential People in AI".
Career
Gross was born in
Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
in 1991. In 2010, Gross was accepted into the
Y Combinator
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Str ...
program. At the time, he was the youngest founder ever accepted. Gross launched Greplin (later renamed
Cue).
In 2011 ''
Forbes
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'' named Gross one of "
30 Under 30
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" in the "Pioneers in Technology" category. In 2011, ''
Business Insider
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'' named Gross one of the "25 under 25" in Silicon Valley, and in 2014, the site named him one of "30 under 30 Influential Young People in Tech".
Cue
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
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. At 19, Gross was one of Sequoia's youngest founders.
In 2012 the company renamed itself to "Cue" and launched additional predictive search features. In 2013, Apple acquired Cue for an undisclosed amount reported to be between $40 million and $60 million.
Y Combinator
In 2017, Gross joined
Y Combinator
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Str ...
as a partner, where he focused on artificial intelligence, creating a dedicated "YC AI" program.
Pioneer
In August 2018, Gross created Pioneer, an early-stage, remote startup accelerator and fund, focused on finding talented and ambitious people around the world.
AI Grant & Andromeda
In 2021, Gross and
Nat Friedman
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman is an American technology executive and investor. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of GitHub, and former Chairman of the GNOME Foundation. Friedman is currently a board member at the Arc Institute, and an advisor ...
started making significant investments in the AI space, as well as running a program that gives $250,000 in funding to AI-native companies called AI Grant.
In 2023, they deployed the Andromeda Cluster, a supercomputer cluster consisting of 2,512 H100s GPUs for use by startups in their portfolio.
References
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1991 births
American information technology businesspeople
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American businesspeople