Vinod Khosla
Founder, Khosla Ventures · as of 2026-10-05 · source
Prominent Silicon Valley investor and early OpenAI backer; vocal on AI on X.
News mentioning Vinod Khosla (3)
- Factory CEO accuses adviser Chris Degnan of 'unethical conduct involving Cognition'; 52 minutes later Cognition names him CRO and denies everything ★★
On Sept 30, 2026 Factory CEO Matan Grinberg posted that Factory was "terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition", alleging that the ex-Snowflake CRO, a Factory adviser and board observer, had talked with Cognition while sitting in Factory board meetings. Degnan said he had…
- General Intuition raises $220M at a $6.2B valuation for agents trained on game footage ★★
On Sept 29, 2026 General Intuition, the lab spun out of the game-clip platform Medal, raised $220M at a $6.2B valuation, led by Valor Equity Partners. It trains foundation models on billions of action-labeled gameplay videos to produce agents that act in real time in unseen environments, and…
- Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le leave Google to found Discovery Loop, a PBC to automate ML research and science ★★★★
On 5 Aug 2026 Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a public benefit corporation with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le. It aims to "automate the experimental loop" (propose, run, evaluate and iterate on experiments), starting…
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- Vinod Khosla to Factory's CEO: 'You are a struggling second tier competitor' original ↗ Vinod Khosla @vkhosla · x · 2026-09-30
A prominent investor sides with Cognition in the Factory–Cognition dispute; ~3.9M views (fxtwitter, Oct 5).
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