A former team of OpenAI experts is now investing big bucks into emerging AI startups. They've launched Zero Shot, a $100 million venture capital firm, with some questionable bets on what will and won’t succeed.

The fund's partners include Evan Morikawa, who led the engineering behind DALL·E and ChatGPT, and Shawn Jain, an engineer turned VC. Together they've already invested in companies like Worktrace AI and Foundry Robotics, aiming to fill perceived gaps in the market with their inside knowledge.

But don't expect them to back every trendy tech product. Morikawa is wary of vibe coding and digital twins, while Mayne believes embodiment training data startups are betting on unlikely success. Their insights might just give founders an early heads-up or could be as accurate as chatbots predicting the weather ten years out.

With a track record in AI, these former geniuses are now using their expertise to shape the next big thing – or at least they think so. Whether they'll turn out to be prophets or just tech-savvy investors remains to be seen.