person

Daniel Gross

Andromeda Cluster co-founder; ex-Apple AI lead

Investor; former director of machine learning at Apple. Co-founder with Nat Friedman of AI Grant and Andromeda, a large-scale GPU cluster offered to AI startups.

current Co-founder, AI Grant / Andromeda

past Director of ML, Apple; Partner, Y Combinator

@danielgross

Strategy positions

Distributed buildersendorses

Keep many independent actors; concentration is the bigger risk

Argues compute access is the bottleneck preventing many strong teams from competing with frontier labs; co-built Andromeda specifically to widen the pool of credible AI startups.

Compute is the new gold rush. We started Andromeda because the only thing we couldn't easily get for our portfolio was the cluster.

¶ articleAndromeda Cluster· Andromeda Cluster· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Andy Jassy
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Amazon CEO; AWS architect
Jim Keller
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CEO of Tenstorrent; legendary chip architect
Ben Goertzel
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Founder of SingularityNET; AGI optimist

Record last updated 2026-04-25.