Lonsdale: I am invested in xAI's Grok 3 and Cognition AI
Joe Lonsdale · Tariffs, Trump's Economic Endgame, Market Chaos, Bitcoin Reserve, CoreWeave IPO · Mar 8, 2025 · at 1:31:18
Joe Lonsdale, founder and managing partner at 8VC, discloses his investments in xAI and AI coding company Cognition AI during a discussion on software development tools.
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“I'm invested in Grok three and I'm biased towards Elon, but you know, a lot of our companies will build on top of multiple of them as well. And yeah, I think you're talking about Cogen. I'm, you know, in cognition, I think a lot of my companies using Devon is actually just like crushing it.”
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