Fan-Yun Sun
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building @moonlake_ai | prev. cs phd @StanfordAILab, @NVIDIAAI embodied AI, code generation, 3D
Stanford, CA
Joined October 2018
I told my parents that I’d like to drop out of my cs phd program at Stanford a few months back. They didn’t let me, we’re asian :) So I graduated and started @moonlake_ai. @sharonal_lee and I saw urgency, and opportunities. Excited to share that we raised a 28 million dollar
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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Congrats @stash_pomichter!
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The future GDP 🇺🇸 contribution of these 50 @extraordinary aliens will be $1 Trillion+ From domestic Rare Earth Metal production, space satellite communication, hurricane disaster defense, hyper-efficient photonics energy generation, DeFi to bank billions, technology to empower
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😅 we are hiring, DM open
Came to a Stanford event with @sunfanyun.. couldn’t get him to leave because too many recruits were trying to slide… @moonlake_ai
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My brother and I spent our childhoods inventing worlds and quests, dreaming of stepping inside them. Today, I’m launching Moonlake AI with $28M to make those worlds real.
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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Moonlake AI raises $27 million for generative game worlds, OpenAI debuts Sora 2 video and audio app, and Mira Murati launches Tinker AI tool, Microsoft's New CEO.
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Moonlake AI raises $28 million for generative game worlds, OpenAI debuts Sora 2 video and audio app, and Mira Murati launches Tinker AI tool, Microsoft's New CEO.
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Moonlake AI founder @sunfanyun: We already have tools to build virtual worlds like GTA (which cost $2B). The problem is that it's hugely expensive and manual. He says the future is where people can "vibe code" a similar virtual world.
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Training Physical AI agents depends on rich environments. Simulating diverse worlds is key to speeding up progress—excited to see @moonlake pushing this forward!
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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IN NEWS: Moonlake AI raises a $28M Seed round led by @thresholdvc, @aixventureshq, and @NVIDIA. Co-founder & CEO @sunfanyun will be joining TBPN at 1:10pm PT to break it all down.
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Thrilled to be supporting the Moonlake team who is building the foundation model for generative, interactive worlds. Congrats @sunfanyun @sharonal_lee and team 🙏🏽
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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Congratulations to @sunfanyun, @sharonal_lee and the entire @moonlake_ai team on the $28M seed investment. It's been an honor to watch such a brilliant, driven, and visionary group of people accomplish so much. I'm looking forward to seeing the groundbreaking work still to
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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Excited to see @sunfanyun & @sharonal_lee launching @moonlake_ai! I got to know them at @Stanford, both doing super-exciting work with 3D world foundation models. Games and simulations need not just visuals but world understanding, and that's where they're focused. Take a look!
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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A new dimension of creativity unlocked by AI. Given that the games industry is larger than movies. I think this will be very exciting.
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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Moonlake is launching publicly today, focused on generating simulations and games. Simulations are an important application of generative models that I’ve advocated for since 2014
We raised $28M seed from Threshold Ventures, AIX Ventures, and NVentures (Nvidia's venture capital arm) —alongside 10+ unicorn founders and top AI researchers— to build reasoning models that generate real-time simulations and games. Models are bottlenecked by practical
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looking forward :)
On TBPN today: – The Slop vs Farming debate – @reecechowdhry (Concept Ventures) – @sunfanyun (Moonlake) – @getpeid (Nothing) – @MarediaShehzan (Lava) – @vriparbelli (Synthesia) – @LiamFedus & @ekindogus (Periodic Labs) – @jayanthmadhesw1 (Eve) – Jim Gao (Phaidra) Tune in!
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stay tuned for our release @moonlake_ai 🌜
Thrilled to see former @StanfordAILab students @sunfanyun and my own student @sharonal_lee today launching @moonlake_ai, a new AI lab that lets anyone code interactive worlds in minutes. @aixventureshq led their $28M seed along @thresholdvc, @NVIDIA Ventures, and leading angels
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I’ve joined @aixventureshq as a General Partner, working on investing in deep AI startups. Looking forward to working with founders on solving hard problems in AI and seeing products come out of that! Thank you @ychernova at @WSJ for covering the news:
wsj.com
Christopher Manning, one of the most cited researchers in the field of natural language processing and a former director of the Stanford AI Lab, has taken a leave of absence from Stanford University...
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