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Builders of Intelligence
For founders, researchers, technologists and operators building the infrastructure of the future.
"We're interested in people building ambitious systems without losing their humanity in the process."
LOOMUS is a community that connects founders across the globe. We curate the events worth attending, the freshest industry news, the sharpest insights, the most useful data and the books worth your time — so you never have to figure it out alone.
“What is lost when every thought becomes productive?”
Beyond the events and the data, LOOMUS keeps a quieter room — the questions we can’t stop thinking about, confessions at 2am, a swamp archive of beautiful failures, the people whose minds we find beautiful. An exchange of feeling and thought, for people who perceive the world a little too much.
Step into the quieter room →Five core channels that filter out the noise and keep the signal. Whatever stage you're at, you'll find what you need right now.
A curated feed of events worldwide — dinners, workshops, demo days. Never miss out.
See eventsA weekly pick of venture & tech news, trimmed to what affects your decisions.
Read newsDeep breakdowns from practitioners — see the logic behind the trends.
Get insightsHand-picked Substack publications that explain the world in data and charts.
See the picksA community-vetted reading list, each with a reason it's worth your time.
Browse booksLOOMUS grew out of years of convening founders, investors and global tech leaders — across Silicon Valley and Europe. Here's where we've been, and where we're headed next.
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A spring showcase of Stanford-affiliated founders and their newest products, meeting investors and the wider community.
LumaThe Paris edition of the GenAI Summit — a day on autonomous AI, connecting European and global builders.
LumaAn AI pitch summit co-hosted with Stanford Entrepreneurs, Stanford Founders and the Bay Area Founders Club.
LumaA live workshop on founder storytelling — sharpening how you pitch, in a relaxed bar setting.
LumaA five-day run of GenAI programming across Silicon Valley — talks, demos and builder gatherings.
LumaThe spring 2025 demo day for Stanford-affiliated startups, meeting investors and the founder community.
LumaA gathering on International Women’s Day spotlighting women building in tech — stories, role models and community.
LumaA Stanford panel on eVTOL — electric vertical-takeoff aircraft and the future of urban air mobility.
LumaA two-day AI pitch summit in Silicon Valley gathering founders, startups and investors.
LumaAn evening mixer connecting Stanford alumni across private equity and venture capital.
Luma43 AI, founder and builder events across the Bay this week — May 26–31. Four we'd clear an evening for:
Updated May 26, 2026 · refreshed every MondayCurated from the outlets we trust — Crunchbase, CNBC, CNN, TechCrunch — the few stories genuinely worth a founder's attention right now.
AI startups absorbed roughly 80% of all venture dollars last quarter — more than was raised in the whole of 2025. Essential context for how founders should time a raise and read this market.
Read on Crunchbase NewsFrontier-class capability at a fraction of the cost, plus "Spark," a general-purpose agent — as the race with OpenAI and Anthropic accelerates.
Read on CNBCMicrosoft, Google and xAI will submit frontier models for pre-release safety review — a sign scrutiny of advanced AI is becoming the norm.
Read on CNN BusinessRichard Socher's new $650M lab is chasing recursive self-improvement — AI that spots and repairs its own weaknesses. A candid founder interview.
Read on TechCrunchA new developer platform lets outside agents plug into Notion, so teams and AI can run automated workflows side by side.
Read on TechCrunchRather than sifting through the noise, follow the Substacks the founder community already trusts most — here are three we recommend.
The world's most-read product newsletter — 1M+ subscribers. Ex-Airbnb product lead Lenny Rachitsky turns product, growth and career advice into actionable frameworks, backed by first-hand interviews and data.
Journalist Alex Kantrowitz calmly unpacks what's really happening inside Big Tech and AI each week — no hype, just the part that affects your decisions.
VC partner Kyle Poyar on B2B growth and go-to-market — pricing, acquisition channels and growth benchmarks, all grounded in real data from operators.
A hand-picked set of Substack publications that explain the economy, markets, business and tech through data and charts — so you can see the trends instead of guessing them.
Weekly breakdowns of how the world's biggest companies actually make money — earnings, business models and metrics, all turned into clean charts.
Read on Substack →Doug O'Laughlin's deep, data-rich analysis of semiconductors and the hardware powering the AI boom — essential for understanding the supply side of tech.
Read on Substack →Economist Noah Smith on economics, technology and industrial policy — rigorous but readable, and proudly techno-optimist. Five posts a week.
Read on Substack →Joseph Politano lays out the global economy almost entirely in original charts — jobs, inflation, trade and growth, explained with the data itself.
Read on Substack →Matthew C. Klein's data-driven take on the global economy and markets — what the latest numbers mean for rates, growth and where capital flows next.
Read on Substack →The most-read finance newsletter on Substack — sharp, lateral-thinking analysis of energy, commodities and markets, and how they ripple into everything else.
Read on Substack →Every book comes with a "why it's worth reading" — so you read the right books in limited time.
Traces five breakthroughs from the first neurons to human cognition — a grounded map of what today's AI still hasn't cracked.
⭐ Big pictureA DeepMind co-founder on AI, synthetic biology and the hardest question of all — how to contain what we build.
⭐ Essential readThe case that your neocortex runs thousands of models of the world at once — and what that means for real machine intelligence.
⭐ Mind-shiftingHow physics, engineering and math have shaped our picture of the mind — the quiet scaffolding under modern neuroscience and AI.
⭐ Deep diveA wide-angle look at how advanced AI could reshape work, society and meaning — and which futures are worth steering toward.
⭐ Future-facingGombrich's timeless survey of art — a reminder that craft, taste and meaning are their own form of intelligence.
⭐ TimelessLOOMUS is a global frontier-tech community. We connect the people building the AI era — decision-makers from companies like Microsoft and IBM, AI founders, investors and researchers — so experience, resources and goodwill can flow freely between them.
The "Loom" in our name says what we set out to do: to weave Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia — three homes of innovation — together like threads. Each year we host 6–10 flagship summits around the world, and walk alongside media partners like Forbes and Hurun, so good ideas reach the world and talent and opportunity truly move across borders.
But more than connecting resources, we care about the intention behind the connection. We keep supporting academic gatherings and tech-for-good projects — like Stanford's Demo Day — because we believe the most advanced innovation should, in the end, return warmly to people themselves. LOOMUS wants to be a home for learning and collaboration in the AI era: a place where everyone can find partners, find resources, and find the courage to walk toward the future.
As AI reshapes how everything gets built, we believe what we make should stay woven to long-term human value — good for people not just this quarter, but for the decades ahead. LOOMUS gathers founders who want to build that future on purpose, so technology and humanity grow in the same direction.
See how we put it into practice →LOOMUS isn't looking for the most impressive person in the room. We're looking for builders, thinkers, writers and artists with a sense of civilization — people making ambitious things without losing their humanity along the way. Six ways in.
For founders, researchers, technologists and operators building the infrastructure of the future.
"We're interested in people building ambitious systems without losing their humanity in the process."
For anthropologists, philosophers, cognitive scientists, historians, writers and thinkers exploring what intelligence means for humans.
"As intelligent systems reshape civilization, we need people thinking deeply about memory, meaning, emotion, culture, identity — and what should remain human."
For essayists, critics, storytellers, interviewers and documentarians — people who preserve the emotional memory of an era.
"We believe communities without writers lose their memory."
💛 Some editorial & documentation work here is fundedFor artists, designers, musicians, architects, creative coders, filmmakers and aesthetic technologists exploring new forms of intelligence.
"The future will not be shaped by engineers alone — but also by the people designing how intelligence feels."
A rotating circle of unusual thinkers, builders, researchers and cultural contributors inside LOOMUS.
"Each year we invite a small circle — usually ten to twenty people. Residencies, research collaborations, salons and editorial projects are funded."
💛 Funded residencies & collaborationsFor people who feel intellectually homeless everywhere else.
"Some people arrive here without a category. That may be the point."
Choose the door that fits — the questions below will change to match it. We read every application ourselves; there is no algorithm here, and no instant yes.
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