I asked each investor for the most elite startups they'd tell an ambitious relative to join, the ones they'd join themselves if they had to join a company, and the ones they'd pick if they had to put 10% of their net worth into one company at today's price. The list: breakoutlist.com Breakout List, all picks (1 of 4): 1-10 people: - Hone (@moritz_stephan, @CarloWillem, @oqbrady) - Normal (@ansonyuu, @hudzah) - Standard Intelligence (@G413N, @devanshpandey) - Tacit Labs (@ninklefitz, @AmDroste) 11-25 people: - American Terawatt (@atroyn, @rslparker, @aranibatta) - Conduit (@clemvonstengel, @riopopper) - Convergent (Omkar Savant, Vivek Katara, @debnilsur) - Core Automation (@MillionInt, @_arohan_) - Engram (@dan_biderman, @EyubogluSabri, @realJessyLin) - Instinct (@noahrshinn) - Keenable (@styskin, Matthias Petri) - Lumaril (Mark Elliot, Ben Duffield) - Neion Bio (@Dimkell, Sam Levin) - Pangram Labs (@max_spero_, @bradley_emi) - Quadrillion (@echinaceous) - Re (@karnsaroya, @AnandDhillon, @thecliffwhite, @benaneesh) - Ricursive (@annadgoldie, @Azaliamirh) - Sail Research (@neilmovva, @blintzbase) - Trajectory (@rronak_, @michaelelabd, @QuantumArjun) - Watney Robotics (Sean Cheong, Ryan Gannon) 26-50 people: - Amca (@jaimalik, Eli Giovanetti) - General Matter (@ScottNolan, Lee Robinson) - Infisical (@matsiiako, @maidulll, @dangtony98) - Long Lake (@alextaubman, @rasmuswissmann, @varunshenoy_) - Luzern Risk (Gabriel Weiss, Jonathan York, Rachel Jenkins, Sam Espinosa) - Mithril (@jaredq_) - Revel (@scottgmorton) - Specter (Xerxes Libsch) - Turbopuffer (@Sirupsen, @pushrax)

Yay, in TIME100 AI w/ @Azaliamirh ! With AlphaChip, we started the field of AI for Chip Design. Last year, we founded Ricursive to take on all of chip design, from model to GDS (the final input to the fab). How we got here: (1/n)

Since launching last week, more than 230 companies and organizations from across the tech sector have signed the "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" open letter. We want to thank these partners for standing up and publicly supporting broader access to AI innovation. A special thanks to @nvidia, @a16z, and @PalantirTech for working with @Microsoft on this effort. These signatories understand that America’s AI leadership will not depend on the success of our frontier models alone, but on our ability to build a strong, secure, and open ecosystem that diffuses AI into every sector. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners and with policymakers to build that open ecosystem in a way that benefits American businesses, empowers American workers, and strengthens the American economy.