A frontier data efficiency lab solving the sample efficiency problem in AI
Flapping Airplanes is a foundational AI research lab devoted to solving the data-efficiency problem in AI. Founded by Ben Spector, Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith, the company raised $180M in seed funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Index Ventures in January 2026. The lab pursues brain-inspired, biologically plausible model training approaches that can learn at human level without massive data ingestion.
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