#  Asher Spector Featured in the Wall Street Journal 

 





February 13, 2026

 

 

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We are thrilled to share that Asher Spector, a Statistics alum, was mentioned in the [***Wall Street Journal*** ](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/these-billion-dollar-ai-startups-have-no-products-no-revenue-and-eager-investors-97c0a9ba?st=TdDs4y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)this month following the launch of his new AI research lab, Flapping Airplanes. The start-up aims to solve the "data efficiency" problem in artificial intelligence by building models that can learn efficiently without relying on massive datasets. The start-up recently received $180 million in seed funding at a valuation of $1.5 billion from Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures and Menlo Ventures. Congratulations,

Asher!



 

 

 



 

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