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Daniel Gross

Daniel Gross is an Israeli-American businessman and investor who co-founded Cue and Safe Superintelligence Inc. and works in artificial intelligence.

born 1991Co-founding CueCo-founding Safe Superintelligence Inc.Artificial intelligence investing

Occupation: businessperson
Education: Bnei David Mechina
Founded: Safe Superintelligence Inc. (2024)

Daniel Gross was born in 1991 in Jerusalem

Daniel Gross was born in Jerusalem in 1991. He grew up in an Orthodox home in the Katamon neighborhood. He studied at the Horev yeshiva high school and then at the pre-military academy in Eli.

Before enlisting in the IDF, he was accepted to Y Combinator, then its youngest founder accepted. He chose not to enlist. In 2010 he launched Greplin, a search engine for online accounts, with Robby Walker.

Greplin raised $4 million from Sequoia Capital in 2011 and was renamed Cue in 2012. Apple bought Cue in 2013, and Gross joined Apple as a director focused on machine learning.

In 2017 he became a partner at Y Combinator and started its AI program. In 2018 he created Pioneer, a remote startup accelerator and fund. From 2021 he invested in AI with Nat Friedman, and they built the Andromeda Cluster in 2023.

In June 2024 he co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. with Ilya Sutskever and Daniel Levy. In July 2025 he left it to join Meta Superintelligence Labs.