Newsroom
AIX Ventures was founded by the world's top AI researchers and builders to invest in category defining companies. Below is a subset of news and content from our investors and startups.
Fireside Chat with Tanay Kothari at Wispr Flow
Tanay Kothari sat down for a fireside chat with Christopher Manning and Shaun Johnson to discuss the Wispr Flow journey
Explaining DeepSeek and Its Implications with Chris Manning
We recently had an insightful discussion on the future of DeepSeek and it what it means for the AI ecosystem post-launch.
AI House at Davos: AI at Scale: Navigating Speed, Security, and Strategy | AI House Davos 2025
Partner Richard Socher speaks at AI House Davos 2025 to explore the opportunities and challenges of deploying AI at scale in a rapidly evolving environment.
YouTube/FII Institute: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Richard Socher & Prem Akkaraju discuss the future of AI beyond models like ChatGPT
Partner Richard Socher dives into AI’s real-world impact and what’s next at the eighth annual Future Investment Initiative.
Yahoo Opening Bid: You.com Founder Talks the Future of AI
Partner Richard Socher on Yahoo Finance Opening Bid, illustrating a future where AI agents act as personal assistants.
CNBC: The Sneaky Way Big Tech is Acquiring Talent from AI Unicorns
Partner Shaun Johnson spoke with CNBC about tech mega-caps.
YouTube/Snowflake: Richard Socher on the Future of Trust in LLMs
Partner Richard Socher discusses his background in AI and NLP in a Luminary Talk from Dev Day 2024.
WIRED: Google's AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That's How AI Works
Partner Richard Socher discusses LLMs with WIRED.
The Verge: Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
Portfolio company Hugging Face commits commits $10 million in free shared GPUs to help developers create new AI technologies.
The New York Times: Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR
The NYT highlights portfolio company Profluent's approach to AI-based gene editing technology.
TechCrunch: This Week in AI: When ‘open source’ isn’t so open
TechCrunch highlights Partner Christopher Manning and his expertise about machine learning.
The Robot Brains Podcast: AI Researcher and Entrepreneur Richard Socher
Partners Pieter Abbeel and Richard Socher talk about search engines and AI.
Stanford Engineering: Laying the Foundation for Today’s Generative AI
Partner Christopher Manning shares his work in NLP and machine learning.
VCJ: AI Unicorn Backer AIX Ventures Collects $202M for Second Fund
VCJ coverage of AIX Ventures’ $202M fund.
AIX Ventures’ Second Fund of $202M Will Fuel AI and the Future of Work
AIX Ventures announces a second fund of $202M.
Australian Financial Review: The Big AI Conundrum: Productivity Booster or Job Killer?
Partner Anthony Goldbloom shares his insight on generative AI and ChatGPT.
2024 IEEE John von Neumann Medal: Christopher D. Manning
Partner Christopher Manning is awarded a IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
Stanford Online: Ask About AI With Chris Manning
Partner Christopher Manning answers questions about AI.
TED: Why AI is Humanity's Mirror — And What We Can Learn From It
Partner Richard Socher shares his expertise about AI and human behavior.
TIME: 100 Most Influential People in AI
Partner Richard Socher is featured on TIME's list of the 100 Most Influential People in AI.
The Robot Brains Podcast: AI to Reduce Carbon Emissions from Cow Burps and Farts
Yaniv Altshuler, CEO and Founder of portfolio company Metha.ai, talks about using AI to reduce carbon emissions.
TechCrunch: Pieter Abbeel and Ken Goldberg on Generative AI Applications
Partner Pieter Abbeel discusses generative AI.
Stanford Engineering: The Future of Computational Linguistics
Partner Christopher Manning shares his perspective on the future of computational linguistics.
The Robot Brains Podcast: Lukas Biewald on Solving the Pain-Points of AI Practitioners
Lukas Biewald, Founder and CEO of portfolio company Weights and Biases, explains how to solve AI practitioners' pain points.
Bloomberg Technology: Impossible to Regulate AI, You.com CEO Says
Partner Richard Socher shares his stance on regulating AI and the future of search.
The Information: Search Has Its Goliath. Could Richard Socher Be Its David?
Partner Richard Socher challenges the status quo of search with AI.
Stanford Engineering: 60 Years of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford
Partner Christopher Manning reflects on 60 years of AI.
Stanford: Generative AI: Perspectives from Stanford HAI
Partner Christopher Manning shares his perspective on the potential impact of generative AI.
Australian Financial Review: This Aussie Professor is an AI Legend. ChatGPT Shocked Even Him
Partner Christopher Manning offers perspective on generative AI and the future.
Stanford Online: Andrew Ng and Christopher Manning Discuss Natural Language Processing
Partner Christopher Manning discusses computational linguistics with Andrew Ng.
Business Insider: The 13 Top VC Firms Dedicated to Investing in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Founders Should Know
Business Insider lists AIX Ventures as one of the 13 top AI-focused VC firms.
The Gradient: Christopher Manning: Linguistics and the Development of NLP
Partner Christopher Manning explains linguistics and the development of NLP.
Databricks: On Large Language Models for Understanding Human Language Christopher Manning
Partner Christopher Manning speaks about LLMs and human language.
The Robot Brains Podcast: Clement Delangue on Building the GitHub of Machine Learning
Clement Delangue, Co-Founder and CEO of portfolio company Hugging Face, talks about innovation in machine learning.
Arize: Observe - Fireside Chat with Anthony Goldbloom
Partner Anthony Goldbloom participates in a fireside chat about his company Kaggle.
WSJ: AIX Ventures Gathers Top AI Talent to Invest in Startups
WSJ profiles AIX and its founders following the firm's first funding announcement.
Introducing AIX Ventures
AIX Ventures announces its first round of funding and introduces the firm.
ACM Prize in Computing: Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel is honored with ACM Prize in Computing for being a pioneer in robotics.