Mike McCormick
@MikeMcCormick_
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Founder, VC, grant-maker. Building a secure and resilient world at @HalcyonFutures and @HalcyonVC
Joined July 2009
Exactly two years ago, I launched @HalcyonFutures. So far we’ve seeded and launched 16 new orgs and companies, and helped them raise nearly a quarter billion dollars in funding. Flash back to 2022: After eight years in VC, I stepped back to explore questions about exponential
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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) https://t.co/sfKBVZ2zXr
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Vented to @jaltma about how I want our Level 100 wizards to work on things that matter for humanity, not monkey jpegs or AI slop. Is that too much to ask?!
This week I had @traestephens on Uncapped. He's a co-founder of Anduril and partner at Founders Fund, and he's an amazing person. Hope you enjoy. (0:00) Intro (0:35) Choosing good quests in the AI era (7:35) Ethics behind solving certain problems (11:29) Working with regulators
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“Timelines keep expanding” Maybe if you just started paying attention, but the way bigger story is that basically everyone’s timelines shrank a lot. Even Gary Marcus & Yann Lecun expect agi in the 2030s. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I read shit like this.
I've come to have mixed feelings on "AGI" and "ASI" as terms to convey where this technology is headed. On one hand, AGI has played a key role in motivating talented people who obsessed over this problem (@demishassabis, @ShaneLegg , @ilyasut , many others) and enabled the flow
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I am tired of ai timelines discourse. But I will just say: It has been clear for a while now: big changes are coming, and they will happen slower than the fast timelines people expect, but faster than most people expect. The changes will be slower than some thought because
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Great post from @juddrosenblatt Investing in alignment is a boost for US national security, not a drag
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Would go if I wasn’t out of town!
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Transluce is headed to #NeurIPS2025! ✈️ Interested in understanding model behavior at scale? Join us for lunch on Thursday 12/4 to learn more about our work and meet members of the team: https://t.co/nOmFyTlsVs
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Join us for lunch on Thursday to learn more about Transluce! The event will include brief talks starting at 1pm, a demo of our tech and open problems we're…
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I’m putting up $10k for the winners via @HalcyonFutures Excited to see what gets built!
DEF/ACC HACKATHON NOV 22 @ VIVARIUM SF WHAT ARE WE ACCELERATING TOWARDS?
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DEF/ACC HACKATHON NOV 22 @ VIVARIUM SF WHAT ARE WE ACCELERATING TOWARDS?
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Given that Anthropic detected the cyber espionage campaign in mid-September and open models are 3-6 months behind closed models, we should probably expect similar (much harder to disrupt) attacks in early 2026 (or earlier).
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If you work at @OpenAI, @AnthropicAI, @GoogleDeepMind, or a top cyber company and you want to spin out and start a company to solve this, say hey
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China is so compute constrained they're running their cyber campaigns on US models and infra, where we can catch them in the act. That's a direct benefit of the chip export controls Nvidia aggressively lobbies against widening the US-China compute gap.
We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.
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Common ground between the authors of AI 2027 and AI as Normal Technology! Coauthored article below.
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My prediction from ~summer '25 was that we'd see this in ≤12 months. It took 3. We detected and disrupted an AI state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign.
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Excited to be an investor in @hannu and Red Queen Bio alongside @OpenAI We need more world class entrepreneurs working on biosecurity! Grateful for Hannu and the gang for taking on this mission
Today, we are launching Red Queen Bio ( https://t.co/b1szn8oyps), an AI biosecurity company, with a $15M seed led by @OpenAI. Biorisk grows exponentially with AI capabilities. Our mission is to scale biological defenses at the same rate. A 🧵 on who we are + what we do!👇🏻1/19
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This post is an experiment! I want to fund & help accomplished people and nascent companies + nonprofits working to make AI safe, secure and good for humanity. If you're doing that, or know somebody super credible who is, ping me. And if you're a fan of @HalcyonFutures' work,
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How can impact-oriented founders preserve their missions, even when commercial pressures hit? We studied 20+ companies to answer this one question. This is especially important in AI. That's why we commissioned governance experts Steve Young and @artmin to lead comprehensive
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Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of #AI to cultivate moral discernment as a
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Provably private AI inference should be the standard — not just a nice-to-have. It's a missing link for enterprises and critical sectors to reliably deploy AI at scale, reap its benefits, and protect against dangerous security and privacy risks. Congratulations to our portfolio
Introducing OpenPCC - open-source AI Privacy No tracking. No training. No leaks. Just provably private infrastructure for AI. Check out the repo, announcement, and whitepaper in the comments - hit us with a star while you're there!
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