A new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI has made its first close on its $100 million goal, the founders tell TechCrunch. The partners have already written a couple of checks.
The fund is called Zero Shot (a play on the AI training term) and its co-founding team includes several OpenAI OGs who found themselves becoming VCs almost by serendipity.
Three of the founding partners hail from ...
The narrative positions internal experts, who possess unique institutional knowledge about AI model development, as the necessary arbiters for spotting genuine investment opportunities. This structure leverages the credibility of former OpenAI employees to validate a counter-narrative against broader market enthusiasm. The stated skepticism—particularly regarding "vibe coding" and "digital twins"—acts as a mechanism for defining the fund's unique value proposition: identifying what the market ov...