Victor Taelin responds to funding-roast: raising $8M at $120M cap for post-GPT architecture
alejandroll10 · x · 2026-11-09
Victor Taelin, author of HVM, personally responded after his fundraising deck got roasted: the ask is real — up to $8M at a $120M post-money cap, aimed at researching a successor architecture to GPTs. He admitted all big funds passed and may see his work as a joke, so he's locking in until he has something to show. Critics contrasted him with Symbolica ($31M with no product), Axiom ($64M seed), and startups that promised data efficiency but ended up writing GPU kernels or training models stuck at loss 4.
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