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hmm, interesting. I hadn't heard of these guys. their original step 1 seems to have been building a mobile game that would diagnose you with Alzheimer's in 10 minutes, but I guess at some point someone told them that was stupid:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/10/this-yale-alum-wants-to-build-a-telemedicine-platform-expressly-for-alzheimers-disease/
small thread about these guys:
https://bsky.app/profile/scgriffith.bsky.social/post/3llepnsvtpk2g
tldr only new thing I saw is that as a teenager the founder annoyed "over 100" academics until one of them, a computer scientist, endorsed his research about a mobile game that diagnoses you with Alzheimer's in five minutes
I missed the AI bit, but I wasn't surprised.
Do YC, A16z and their ilk ever fund anything good, even by accident?