Ex-OpenAI VP Lilian Weng's startup raises $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins
bneyshabur · x · 2026-11-13
bneyshabur (Lilian Weng, former OpenAI VP of safety research) announced a $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake.
The startup aims to make frontier AI R&D more accessible, framing its mission as "radical leverage for scientists": one person doing what took a team, a team doing what took an institution. "Capital is a means, not an end," she wrote, arguing broader access to frontier research is the most direct path to AI that solves humanity's pressing scientific problems.
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