Co-founder & CTO @ Ethos Ex. Staff Research Scientist @Deepmind, AlphaDev, MuZero for Video Compression, AlphaCode #deeplearning #reinforcementlearning
London, England
Joined June 2020
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1/ Ethos just completed our largest payout cycle ever. We now average $1M/day paid to experts worldwide: tens of millions a month to tens of thousands of people.
2/ Behind every payout is a real person. One expert, 20+ years in enterprise sales and a year without work: "Ethos came at a time when I was really down and not sure if I would work again professionally."
3/ Another put it better than we can: "It made me realise that my experience isn't becoming irrelevant because the world is changing." We're building for a future where human opportunity grows in tandem with AI.
4/ To our team, who worked every weekend to scale operations for tens of thousands of active experts in days: thank you. You did in months what takes most companies years. This is only the beginning.
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
The team at @a16z are looking to do more deals in Europe.
Everyone knows that @GEVS94 is bullish on the continent.
But now Anish Acharya (@illscience) has also come out in support for European Tech:
“The opportunity for Europe is to embrace what's unique about Europe, and it feels like that's what this generation of really good European [companies] are doing"
"they're unapologetically European and going after markets and opportunities where they have a right to win,”
@a16z recently invested alongside @sarahdrinkwater, @MattEvantic and others in Ethos (@DJ_Mankowitz).
The firm has also invested in Mistral and Revolut.
NICE.
Full piece in @Siftedeu below.
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
Come Ask James Lo (Co-Founder of Ethos AI) Anything!
This is part of AMA series we're hosting on our subreddit r/ExperiencedFounders.
James raised $22.75M from a16z to solve expert calls with AI where they believe AI will enable human opportunity.
Ethos adds roughly 35,000 new experts to the platform every week and they earn an extra ~£4,500/month on average. The top 10% earn £7,000+/month.
Before Ethos, he co-founded Mana, studied Government at LSE, did strategy consulting at McKinsey, growth/transformation work at SoftBank's Vision Fund, including stints on the WeWork and Arm turnarounds, and a UNICEF connectivity initiative.
Come ask him anything!
reddit.com/r/ExperiencedFoun…
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
This week we hosted @DJ_Mankowitz, cofounder and CTO of Ethos for a discussion on how Ethos has architected the engineering team to be AI-native.
With just 3 developers, the bar is very high for new joiners. Dan is looking for generalists (comfortable across full stack, infra, UX) who are genuinely AI-native. This means AI products like Cursor, Claude Code and Conductor are core to your workflows and you're increasingly become a manager of agents rather than coding.
Ethos has made a number of other conscious decisions to optimise for coding agents: a single monorepo for full context, agent.md files, everything is a tool with Claude SDK, and much more.
We really enjoyed having Dan share his insights with a room of fellow engineers and founders!
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
Congatulations, James, Dan and Team Ethos! Thank you for the opportunity to be your partners.
Today Ethos announces our $22.75M Series A led by @a16z, with participation from @generalcatalyst, @xtxmarkets, @MattEvantic, and @_CommonMagic.
Ethos turns what you know into recurring income - matching your expertise to expert calls, research, AI training, fractional work, and full-time roles.
35,000 people are joining Ethos every week. People are making $10,000 every month on Ethos.
AI shouldn’t replace you. It should make you irreplaceable.
Build your profile at askethos.com.
Today Ethos announces our $22.75M Series A led by @a16z, with participation from @generalcatalyst, @xtxmarkets, @MattEvantic, and @_CommonMagic.
Ethos turns what you know into recurring income - matching your expertise to expert calls, research, AI training, fractional work, and full-time roles.
35,000 people are joining Ethos every week. People are making $10,000 every month on Ethos.
AI shouldn’t replace you. It should make you irreplaceable.
Build your profile at askethos.com.
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
Today we’re releasing Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, our first public models.
Laguna XS.2 is our first open-weight release, with weights available today on Hugging Face:
huggingface.co/poolside/Lagu…
A few details on what went into them: large-scale pre-training, data mixture optimization, synthetic data, optimizer efficiency, and async agent RL.
An industry first ✨ Expert network calls with our Ethos AI voice agent! 🚀
Are you ready for the AI revolution in expert calls?
Join Ethos now: askethos.com
#Ethos #AI #ExpertCalls
Human-AI collaboration, reimagined.
2 months ago we launched Ethos.
Today we unveil the next stage: Autonomous Agents powered by human expertise.
Meet our first agent: The Investment Researcher.
It writes reports in minutes.
Need expert input? It searches 500M+ profiles in seconds, and can call experts for you.
Experts get fairly rewarded.
Clients get real insights, fast.
🔗 askethos.com
✨Today, I am thrilled to announce that Ethos (askethos.com) is officially out of stealth with a round led by @generalcatalyst!
AI won't replace human expertise—it'll amplify it.
🌏We're on a mission: "Match people to opportunities with AI."
Here's how it works: 👇
More from GC: generalcatalyst.com/stories/…
Sifted: sifted.eu/articles/deepmind-…
A huge thank you to all of our incredible investors and angels including @generalcatalyst , @_CommonMagic, @8vc , @saranormous -> @conviction embed, @Interface, @OriolVinyalsML , @pushmeet , @christianreber , @jansenniklas and many others #AI #expertnetworks
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
Can we do inference for robotics simply by fine tuning a generative model on the fly? Turns out that with some tricks (cross entropy method) this can be done very quickly!
New work led by @orrkrup , catch him presenting it in person next week at #CoRL2023!
What do you do when your robot world model just doesn't cut it? Fine-tune it, of course!
New paper in #CoRL2023 next week, "Fine-Tuning Generative Models as an Inference Method for Robotic Tasks"
1/ >>>
orrkrup.com/mace
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📺 The brilliant scientists behind AlphaDev by @GoogleDeepMind – @DJ_Mankowitz & @andreamichi – explain how this AI system is revolutionising the realm of practical computer science algorithms.
🔗 hubs.la/Q027gBwK0
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
I’m old enough to remember when @LozzaFox got arrested (!) in the UK - where thought crimes are prosecutable - for saying he intended to cut down an emissions spy camera. But this? “We’ll find some Jews and spill their blood!” “We’ll kill that Jewish boy’s dog!” No problem!
Hamas supporters hunting for Jews in London — with a friendly police escort. xitter.cf/Emily8275/status/17124…
Daniel J. Mankowitz retweeted
An important message to the Arab world >>
رسالة مهمة للعالم العربي >>
#حماس_داعش #Hamas_is_ISIS