AGI House Newsletter

📣 Announcing AGI House Ventures + AGI Accelerator

• If you didn’t already know..AGI House has an early stage AI VC fund. AGI House Ventures invests in early stage AI pre seed and seed companies. Our portfolio includes Cartesia, LiveKit, and PikaLabs.

• And you probably didn’t know… AGI House also has an Accelerator program. AGI Accelerator, is the first AI-Native Accelerator program purpose built to serve AI founders. You get 500k in capital, opportunity to host your own legendary hackathon at AGI House, co working space in the house, and more

Applications are still open for AGI Accelerator starting in July. Come join us. Questions about AGI Accelerator or building something cool? Would love to chat, Email [email protected] or grab a time here: Melissa Daniel Calendly 

🗓️ Upcoming Events

Google AI Build Day - July 12, 2025 @ AGI House - Hillsborough, CA

You’re invited to join us Google’s latest AI breakthroughs—from Gemini and Project Astra to Veo 3 and Flow—are reshaping how we build. On July 12, the engineers, researchers, and PMs behind these tools are coming to AGI House for a hands-on Build Day. Whether you're already building with Gemini or just getting started with multimodal, this is your chance to experiment, prototype, and connect directly with the teams behind the tech. We’d love to see you there.

💭 We want to hear from you…

We’ve been having debates at AGI House. Our question to you is are you more bullish on Anthropic or Cursor? In case you’re wondering what sparked this convo… Anthropic Revenue Hits $4 Billion Annual Pace as Competition With Cursor Intensifies — The Information .

Stay tuned to see the results next week. If you have any insights or leads on AI-native infrastructure and developer tools, let’s chat. Email → [email protected]

Let’s Talk Thinking Models… w/ Jack Rae from Google DeepMind

Jack Rae, Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind recently joined us at AGI House to discuss Test Time compute and Reasoning. Jack spotlights the development of Google’s thinking models at AGI House's Google AI Build Weekend. Watch his talk here.

📚What we’ve been listening to, reading, and using…

• The 5 Hidden Rules Behind Successful AI Products | Chris Pedregal (Granola) We’ve been loving Granola, the AI note taking off that has reached >70% customer retention. Chris Pedregal, founder of Granola, deep dives on important rules for building a successful AI company.

• Grammarly Acquires Superhuman - TechCrunch following Grammarly’s recent raise

• Here Is Everyone Mark Zuckerberg Has Hired So Far for Meta’s ‘Superintelligence’ Team | WIRED. AI Talent is the new draft pick.

  

  Real Madrid spent $8OM to sign Ronaldo from Man United. Meta paid $100M to sign Jiahui Yu from OpenAl

If you’ve been using any AI tools you love, we’d love to hear about them.

AGI House HAI Hackathon Recap

On June 14, AGI House hosted the Human-AI Interaction Build Day with Inflection AI and Human Tech Week—a full-day sprint reimagining emotionally intelligent, intuitive AI interfaces. Kicking off with a keynote and a challenge, teams explored multimodal design, empathy, and human-AI collaboration. After a day of building and pitching, the winners were:

🥇 Canari — private dinner with Inflection CEO Sean White

🥈 Ralph the real-time video hype-dog for AGI house — won Meta AI Ray-Bans

🥉 Moai - Build deeper friendships one moment at a time — earning $1K in Inflection API credits.

Thanks for all who joined and special shoutout to the winners.

💼We’re hiring, and our portfolio companies are too

• Backspace is building the infrastructure for turning codebases into living artifacts. We're reimagining the SDLC for a world where code learns from logs and products understand users better than humans. The founder spent 8 years building AI-first products—most recently at xAI on coding agents. Hiring for Full-Stack Engineer (Backend-Heavy) and AI Engineer (Coding Agents Focus). Email [email protected] if interested.

• AGI House: AGI House is building the infrastructure for AGI, and looking for a few exceptional candidates to join our core team. Specifically roles: AI researcher / PhD in residence, Product/ Frontend Engineer and Operations Manager. Email: [email protected] if interested.

Full job descriptions will be posted on our website: AGI House

Till next time,

AGI House Team

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