I'm proud that announce that today, GPTZero announced plans to join Superhuman. When we founded GPTZero in 2023, the goal was to preserve what's human on the internet. Today, that mission takes a big leap forward. Together, we're building an authenticity layer that travels with you, wherever you read, write, and create. I personally have been super impressed with the team at Superhuman and I'm very excited to join forces to start this next chapter. We are going to double down on GPTZero and its GTM, bringing our AI detector and hallucination detector to Superhuman's massive userbase, as well as creating products that help students and educators navigate what learning looks like as AI evolves. Up and onwards!

TDLR: they got into a few Slack channels 🥱

If your employer caps your AI usage at $30 a month You do not work at a serious company

Isaiah, after everything we’ve been through together I’m surprised that you would publicize our disagreement in this fashion. But since you have created public interest in this, it is important that people should hear both sides of the story. Day One has been a major investor in Valar from the beginning, and we have never wavered in our belief that the company will be a success. This faith and support in our founders is why fourteen Day One founders have become limited partners in Day One’s most recent fund. In 2024, Day One invested in Valar’s seed round. Later that year, Valar required a seed extension after miscalculations by management regarding the capital needs of the business. Day One stepped in to provide this seed extension, saving the company in a difficult time. When it came time to raise a Series A, Valar spent several weeks on the market without success. At Valar’s request, Day One then offered the first term sheet and co-led the Series A, again saving the company during a time when deep tech startups in highly regulated industries were a difficult sell in venture capital. Then when Valar needed a Series A extension, Isaiah asked that Day One waive our pro rata rights so as to make a tenuous financing deal work out. We agreed for the good of the company. As part of these transactions, Valar agreed that, if their long-shot effort to build nuclear energy as a startup did succeed, Day One would have rights to participate in future rounds that could not be eliminated without Day One’s consent. This was a fair bargain at a time when Day One took extraordinary risks by betting against the market when Valar’s future appeared highly uncertain. Following the achievement of criticality on June 18th, our faith has been validated. Valar went from being an obscure company to a hot startup. We congratulate the Valar team on their hard won success! Of course, when it came time for Valar to raise a Series B after achieving such success, Day One expected to participate in that round – as both parties had agreed. But at this point the normally positive communications between Day One and Valar took a negative turn. Valar insisted that Day One give up all of its future pro rata rights despite the parties’ agreements, and despite four out of six major investors participating in the Series B round without waiving. This went against both the letter and the spirit of our deal, so we did not agree. In decades of investing we have waived pro-rata rights dozens of times, but no other company has ever demanded that we give up all of our rights for all future rounds. We told Isaiah we would give up a majority of our pro-rata in the Series B round so as to not make his life difficult, to which he responded “You cannot make my life difficult, I can make your life difficult.” It was at this point that we sought representation with Quinn Emanuel to protect the firm and the interests of our limited partners. Day One has since learned of a significant secondary equity sale by Isaiah from which we were excluded. Our attempts to gain insights into this through our information rights have been stymied by Valar management, who have refused to produce material documents requested by Day One. After weeks of delay on these documents, Valar management alerted us this Wednesday that they intend to pursue legal action against Day One unless we waive our legal rights forever. We have always pursued positive and mutually beneficial relationships with all of our portfolio companies. We have neither taken nor threatened legal action against Valar, and in fact we told them explicitly that we have no interest in doing so. Valar voluntarily entered into a contract with Day One, then violated that contract, and is now suing Day One. We are deeply disappointed by this recent erratic turn, but are still proud of our early and continued support of Valar. We look forward to the clarity from the courts that Valar’s management is seeking.

Startups are hard. You’re the youngest team in the room, the company nobody’s heard of, and there’s always more hurdles before you can help anyone. Last week the @SecWar pointed to @DIU_x Project Spectrum Strike in a memo as part of the Department’s solution to C-UAS spectrum approvals. @teamairbase won that DIU prize challenge in September. Saying that “I’m proud of my team” doesn’t even begin to describe the way I’m feeling right now. I've watched this team go through a lot to get here. The level of user-obsession is unmatched. They build for regulators, for soldiers, and for commercial operators, and they keep delivering. So yeah, I’m grateful to be able to wake up and do what I do. Now, back to work.

Bot detection & human verification will be one of the most urgent demands for businesses over the coming years. Agent swarms will suffocate every website and form; small companies and government websites are most vulnerable. There is a huge gap in the market for this right now. When we looked at what offerings were in the market to use at X, there was not a single company that brought together all the latest technologies so we had to do it all in-house.

My codex usage just went from 50% to 10% in 10 minutes using astra medium. Think there may be some type of tracking issue? @thsottiaux