Betaworks · Fund in New York Tech

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Betaworks is a New York investment and acceleration platform running thematic AI camps for early-stage founders [1]. The organization is headquartered in New York City and invests at pre-seed and seed stages [2]. Betaworks operates AI-focused accelerator programs, including 'AI Camp: The New Agent Economy' [3]. The platform has previously run camps addressing Agent Systems, AI Interfaces, the AI App Layer, and AI-Native Applications [3]. More information about Betaworks is available at https://www.betaworks.com/ [4].

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Reposted clem 🤗@BorthwickX · Sep 26, 2026
Repostedclem 🤗@ClementDelangueI like this article! The problem is not for some people to care and work on catastrophic risks (we actually need much more research into it), it’s when company leaders and policymakers use fears of them to distract and hide the current challenges and solutions! https://t.co/CKgM0MbfKA
Reposted Lydia Moynihan@BorthwickX · Sep 19, 2026
RepostedLydia Moynihan@LydiaMoynihanA new AI assistant finally delivers what other apps have long promised — a bot which can book your plane tickets, draft emails and nab restaurant reservations. We may be getting closer to "have your bot contact my bot" than we realized. https://t.co/jdRbVabj5E
Reposted Julien Chaumond@BorthwickX · Sep 17, 2026
RepostedJulien Chaumond@julien_cOne last thing from me about the HF<>OpenAI "rogue agent" incident. From what we now know it seems @huggingface was the first organization to simultaneously satisfy the following factors: 1/ awareness of the attack 2/ awareness that the attack was Agent-based 3/ ability to remediate the attack 4/ willingness to publicly disclose it A few other platforms or systems missed one or more of those points in the earlier months. As usual, both awareness and transparency make everyone safer in the long run 🙏
Reposted Demetri Kofinas@BorthwickX · Sep 17, 2026
RepostedDemetri Kofinas@kofinasEisman is correct that frontier labs are trying to use this moment to enter into partnerships with each other and the government on terms favorable to ownership. The power grab feels similar to those in 2008 and 2001, except this one is premised on preempting a crisis. Where he's wrong is that the crisis is "manufactured." The strategy at the leading labs has essentially been to spend as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, in the hope of reaching superintelligence and recursive self-improvement before they go bankrupt. Concerns that they may run out of money before they reach superintelligence are prompting the leadership at these companies to enter into some form of partnership with the government. I think what we are witnessing and seeing in the last few days through some of these public statements and proposals, like Amodei’s “We Must Pace the Frontier,” is evidence of a negotiation over the terms of that partnership, in which there appear to be four main counterparties: (1) the new monied interests, made up mostly of financial and tech elite who built their fortunes over the last 30 years through multiple expansions of the Internet revolution, including Web 2.0, Crypto, and A.I. (2) the national security state, which is primarily concerned with maintaining American primacy and technological and military superiority over China and the rest of the world. (3) the political class, which has become increasingly corrupted and beholden to the monied interests that hold the purse strings. (4) the citizenry, which has been dumbed down by an adversarial and poorly incentivized media environment and disempowered through a multi-decade erosion in civil liberties and through the maldistribution of national wealth via corporate and elite welfare. Concerns around A.I. risk are warranted, as were concerns about a deflationary depression in 2008 and further acts of terrorism in 2001. AND those concerns are being exploited to crystallize an oligopoly, neo-feudal economy, and security state in which the gains of the last 30 years of technological disruption, free trade, and financial engineering are protected from further disruption. People with modest or even substantial wealth tied up in the stock market are expected to passively consent, even if the prospects for their children, who will live out their lives in a plutocracy and patronage state, are pretty dire, because the alternative has immediate material consequences. The public (we) appear to be largely absent from these negotiations. Again, NONE of this should be grounds for complacency. I think the advancement in capabilities we are seeing is alarming. In many ways, what has come out of the reporting over the last few months confirms many of the thought experiments around the alignment and AI control problems put forward by the AI risk community going back a very long time.
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Reposted clem 🤗@BorthwickX · Sep 13, 2026
Repostedclem 🤗@ClementDelangueSorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change. Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let’s keep things in perspective and hear from the full range of expertise across the ecosystem!
Reposted clem 🤗@BorthwickX · Sep 8, 2026
Repostedclem 🤗@ClementDelangueBravo to Mistral! So great to see them killing it, they are an inspiration to everyone as we need more sovereign & open-source AI everywhere around the world. Excited to keep supporting them on https://t.co/BgguuZx7nO!
Reposted Julien Chaumond@BorthwickX · Sep 8, 2026
RepostedJulien Chaumond@julien_cI’ve been overwhelmed and humbled by the fact that 99% of the reactions to our intent to join forces have been positive. ❤️ Prominent tech figures, including some you could see as having a competitive relationship with NVIDIA, have been vocally supportive: • @satyanadella: “this ecosystem with open models continuing to flourish and grow” • @sundarpichai: “this will strengthen the open model ecosystem!” • @miramurati: “A great home for Hugging Face to continue expanding access to open models and the tools that let people build with them.” • @alighodsi: “This will be great for the industry and open source.” • @AravSrinivas: “absolutely necessary for AI to remain accessible and useful to the public.” He added that he was glad NVIDIA was supporting Hugging Face and the open-source community. • @MichaelDell: “a big win for the whole ecosystem.” • @levie: “Another huge moment for open weights AI.” • @adcock_brett: “This is good for everyone building and open source.” • @elonmusk: “Congrats!” • @osanseviero: “The impact of HF in the AI ecosystem has been massive” Even more importantly, the community has been leaning into the announcement. Now we’ll get to demonstrate through our actions in the coming months/years that we will keep up the good work 🔥 This is a chance to make open-source AI so much bigger.

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Runs AI-focused accelerator programs including 'AI Camp: The New Agent Economy', following earlier camps on Agent Systems, AI Interfaces, the AI App Layer and AI-Native Applications[2]

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