ClaimsSam Altman

“The deadline to apply for Apollo funding is this Saturday.”

Sam Altman, posting on X 8 July 2020 Post by @sama on X, 2020-07-08 (X)

Factual Field building and careers

The deadline to apply for Apollo funding is the Saturday following 2020-07-08 (2020-07-11).

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

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What would count as true or false

True: Apollo Fund (Apollo Projects) materials or announcements show the application deadline was Saturday 11 July 2020. Mostly true: the deadline fell on that weekend, but at a slightly different time (for example, end of Sunday 12 July) or was later extended. Mostly false: the deadline was a different day within the following week or two. False: the deadline was substantially different, or no application round was open.

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Evidence (1)

  1. E1 Altman Brothers Band: Sam Altman’s Newest Project Is A Fund To Launch Startup ‘Moonshots’ Forbes · 17 June 2020

    “The Altmans are looking to back a first “beta test” batch of five startups by a deadline of July 11.”

Reasoning

Forbes, an independent source writing on 2020-06-17, reported that the Altmans aimed to back a first 'beta test' batch of five startups 'by a deadline of July 11' (E1). 11 July 2020 was the Saturday after the claim date of 2020-07-08, so the date matches the proposition. The Forbes wording ties the deadline to the batch rather than saying 'application deadline' outright. In context, though, it reads as the deadline for the batch round, and no evidence points to a different date.

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Sam Altman, “The deadline to apply for Apollo funding is the Saturday following 2020-07-08 (2020-07-11).” (said 8 July 2020). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_f657b36eb02a, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f657b36eb02a

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