Aiden Smith
Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes · 1 appearance on the record.
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A 2025 Thiel Fellow and former Neuralink machine learning engineer, Aidan Smith worked on brain-computer interfaces and human clinical trials before founding Interfaces. He subsequently co-founded Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab focused on data-efficient model training.
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Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts | May 28, 2025 | 6m |