With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering along the way with players like Andrew Yang, Kendrick Lamar, and Pete Davidson. Now, with a new flip phone and a growing wave of “attention activ...
With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our relationship to technology, partnering along the way with players like Andrew Yang, Kendrick Lamar, and Pete Davidson.
Now, with a new flip phone and a growing wave of “attention activ...
<a href="https://desdunia.com/startups/no-ones-making-a-phone-like-this-lights-co-founders-on-building-for-the-anti-smartphone-generation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation</a> (Desdunia, 2026-07-29)[‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation](https://desdunia.com/startups/no-ones-making-a-phone-like-this-lights-co-founders-on-building-for-the-anti-smartphone-generation) — Desdunia (2026-07-29)https://desdunia.com/startups/no-ones-making-a-phone-like-this-lights-co-founders-on-building-for-the-anti-smartphone-generation<blockquote cite="https://desdunia.com/startups/no-ones-making-a-phone-like-this-lights-co-founders-on-building-for-the-anti-smartphone-generation">‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation</blockquote>
<p>Source: <a href="https://desdunia.com/startups/no-ones-making-a-phone-like-this-lights-co-founders-on-building-for-the-anti-smartphone-generation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Desdunia</a></p>The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
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