Ashton Kutcher Leaves $2 Billion Sound Ventures to Launch AI Infrastructure Firm
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Updated · Gizmodo · Jul 2
Ashton Kutcher Leaves $2 Billion Sound Ventures to Launch AI Infrastructure Firm
3 articles · Updated · Gizmodo · Jul 2
Summary
Morgan Beller and Ashton Kutcher are building an early-stage venture firm aimed at a “post-AGI world,” with Kutcher stepping away from Sound Ventures after more than a decade.
Kutcher told limited partners he wants to chase infrastructure, energy and deep tech, saying those bets need different capital structures, time horizons and operating resources than Sound’s current strategy.
Sound Ventures manages close to $2 billion, according to a Journal-cited source, and recently put more than $800 million into Anthropic, OpenAI and World Labs.
That shift underscores a broader VC thesis that the next AI windfall may sit less in model makers than in the data centers and power projects needed to run them.