Hersh Desai
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Investing in startups with @natfriedman + @danielgross ; run @aigrant and the Andromeda Cluster; stan dogs and warm carbs & cheese; tech/AI for human flourishing
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We are excited to launch Batch 4 of AI Grant! 🎉
Applications are now open and due on August 9th.
Follow
@aigrant
for updates and the link to apply is in the thread below
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Click here to skip the waitlist >>
i have been pleasantly surprised by how much i prefer this to old-school search, and how quickly i adapted.
join the waitlist here:
please let us know what you think!
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We are excited to announce the startups accepted into the third batch of AI Grant!
Check out the thread to learn more about the companies (listed A-Z):
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We are excited to announce the startups accepted into the second batch of AI Grant!
Check out the thread to learn more about the companies (listed A-Z):
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We received >2x the number of applications for AI Grant Batch 2 vs. Batch 1 with the application window being 1/2 as long🤯
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Friendly reminder that
@aigrant_
applications are due tonight (11:59 PM PST)
Advancements by OpenAI and Google are not threats to product-oriented startups, they are enabling technologies. In 99% of cases the model ≠ the product.
Excited to see what everyone is building!
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Excited to launch the third AI Grant batch!
Applications are open for batch 3 of for pre-seed and seed-stage companies building AI products! Deadline is Feb 16.
As an experiment, this batch we are offering the option of either receiving $250k on an uncapped note, or $2.5M at a $25M cap.
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Who people date and marry massively shapes society and we need to have the conversation about how much power society is giving to a handful of companies that control dating apps and their matching algorithms
This data is absolutely insane, if true. Basically every category of meeting one's romantic partner is diving toward zero and getting eaten by online.
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RLHF fail
I honestly didn't believe the other posts until I tried it myself and this is truly insane
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The era of long context is upon us. The question is whether you want to be 1 of 1000 co-authors on the Gemini paper or 1 of <20 building at
Needle in a Haystack tests
The tech report also details a number of microbenchmark “needle in a haystack” tests (modeled after
@GregKamradt
’s ) that probe the model’s ability to retrieve specific information from its context.
For text, Gemini 1.5 Pro
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In 18 shorts months since AI Grant was announced in August 2022 we have admitted 57 amazing startups who are collectively worth $3.5B+
Come join the next batch by EOD Friday!
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I have been continuously in awe of the brilliance, tenacity, and kindness of
@EricSteinb
and the small but mighty team at . So much so that we've decided to invest $100m!
If you're interested in building the future, please do reach out to me or the team!
has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we've tried before.
They're using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the
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Matic builds home robots with level-5 autonomy. It has developed Tesla FSD for the Indoor World making robots capable of exploring, self-mapping, and navigating any unknown indoor space with ultra precision using just 5 RGB cameras with all the processing on the edge device.
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Excited to deepen our partnership with
@AravSrinivas
and the
@perplexity_ai
Team!
I still remember when they launched BirdSQL right after the first
@aigrant_
batch and part of me is still hoping that it comes back as an Enterprise Pro feature 😅
Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ at 1.04B$ valuation, led by Daniel Gross, along with Stan Druckenmiller, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, Tobi Lutke, Garry Tan, Andrej Karpathy, Dylan Field, Elad Gil, Nat Friedman, IVP, NEA, Jakob Uszkoreit, Naval Ravikant, Brad Gerstner, and Lip-Bu
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In addition to the normal things that should keep founders up at night, AI founders also have to deal with the terror of the dark forest hoping that their candle doesn't get snuffed out by a previously unknown, significantly more technologically advanced competitor
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Between this and listening to Fast Car on repeat for the last 12 hours I am feeling emotional about our past and incredibly hopeful about our future
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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Friendly reminder that AI Grant Batch 4 apps close tonight at midnight PT!
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Induced is an AI-first RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with real-time reasoning and memory, to automate the execution of enterprise workflows on a cloud browser:
@inducedai
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Superintelligence is within reach.
Building safe superintelligence (SSI) is the most important technical problem of our time.
We've started the world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.
It’s called Safe Superintelligence
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✅
@perplexity_ai
and
@AnthropicAI
❌
@OpenAI
,
@GoogleDeepMind
,
@AIatMeta
Note that Perplexity gets it right even though it's using GPT-4o which by itself gets it wrong
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Kino is a desktop app that automatically organizes footage to make video editing faster, with no cloud required:
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6 hours left to apply!
AI Grant application deadline is tomorrow July 10th at 11:59pm PT!
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Friendly reminder that applications close next week!
I know most of you wait to the last minute to apply (which is fine) but just don't forget
We are excited to launch Batch 4 of AI Grant! 🎉
Applications are now open and due on August 9th.
Follow
@aigrant
for updates and the link to apply is in the thread below
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Any startups working on a $CRWD competitor that doesn't crash the global economy? The fact that this is only down 10% tells me customers currently have no good alternatives
DMs are open
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Excited for the incoming AI x room-temp superconductor pitches
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IMO
@suno_ai_
is one of the coolest AI startups you could work for in NYC and they're hiring:
We’re excited to announce that Suno has raised $125 million to build a future where anyone can make music, and where technology amplifies our most precious resource: human creativity. We will use this funding to accelerate product development and grow our world-class team of
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@browserbasehq
is building the piece of infrastructure that every AI application needs: a programmable web browser.
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"Can I copy your homework?"
"Yeah just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied"
"Ok"
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Caffeine is likely the highest ROI perk a company can spend money on
This sounds like a trivial observation and it isn’t:
No organization which makes its people pay for coffee wants to win.
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Ayush and Aryan are great founders and I'm excited to see them continue to build their vision for AI-enabled automation!
Excited to announce that we have raised $2.3M led by
@sama
@peakxvpartners
and an incredible set of investors for
@inducedai
We let anyone create virtual AI workers that can automate the execution of workflows on a browser in the cloud with human-like reasoning.
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Your friendly reminder that markets are perfectly efficient and Wall Street knows everything before you do
Updated this $NVDA chart
@paulg
recently shared. Added red line = start of ‘23 “professional” estimates. Full year estimate moved from $17.7 B to $45.8B! Now big debate over sustainability. Never seen estimates this far off the actual mark.
@_clarktang
#variantperception
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Scoop: Andreessen Horowitz is renting thousands of GPUs to AI startups under a new initiative called “oxygen.”
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Excited to continue supporting the Consensus team in their journey to enable human flourishing by making scientific research as accessible as possible
We are thrilled to announce that we've raised an $11.5M Series A led by
@usv
alongside
@natfriedman
&
@danielgross
,
@carterkev
and
@drapervc
Scientific research is the most valuable source of knowledge humans have ever created. Yet - there is no easy way to search and consume
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Pro-tip: The best AI researchers start with the model acronym and work backwards from there
>> HERSH
>> Hierarchical Ensemble of Recurrent and Self-supervised Hypernetworks
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Applications are open for Batch 2!
Also congratulations to the Batch 1 companies who have gone on to raise $140M+ in funding and are now collectively worth $700M+
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As someone who grew up watching Smart House on Disney Channel, I'm excited to back this epic team to make household chores a thing of the past
I'm back to building! Excited to share I've started a company with
@pariljain
and
@lukeholoubek
. We're building bots that do chores so you don't have to. Everyone is busy. Bots can help.
So many things compete for our time - commutes, longer working hours, and the complexities
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@natfriedman
with the prescient historical quote reference from 2006:
"language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved"
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How much higher would OpenAI/Anthropic API revenue be if Llama didn't exist?
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I just bore witness to a man walk into a Taco Bell with two dozen roses and a grupo sierreño, serenade one of the employees, and then leave with her and my heart and stomach have never been more full
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Congratulations to the Skild AI team but my real question is how did the guy on the left get hurt?
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Thanks
@AravSrinivas
for the kind words and making an amazing product that has taken over my home button on Chrome
Thanks a lot, Nat, for the support, ever since the Seed Round, AI Grant help, and continued push for shipping and learning from users! And to
@danielgross
for being our first tester, and
@Hersh_Desai
for all help on AI Grant!
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Momentic automates software testing with AI. Developers ship 10x faster by leveraging our AI to generate test plans and test cases:
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Symphonic Labs is building a wearable silent speech interface for people who can't, don't want to, or struggle to vocalize.
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More like Jensen runs an arb trade where he turns balance sheet dollars into revenue dollars that the market gives a 40x multiple on. The startup equity is icing on the cake
1. raise money from NVIDIA
2. spend all of it on NVIDIA GPUs
3. ???
jensen runs an AI company equity factory
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I'm a few days late to the party but that doesn't diminish my excitement about what the rockstar EvolutionaryScale team has accomplished!
With ESM3, EvolutionaryScale is pushing the boundaries of biology, enabling scientists to design novel proteins representing a significant
We have trained ESM3 and we're excited to introduce EvolutionaryScale.
ESM3 is a generative language model for programming biology. In experiments, we found ESM3 can simulate 500M years of evolution to generate new fluorescent proteins.
Read more:
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LLM as a service should be pronounced llamas and spelled LLaMaaS
that is all
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Julius is an AI Data Scientist that lets anyone do complex data analysis and create visualizations:
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@CreatifyLab
is an AI-powered app that generates high-quality marketing videos from a simple product link or description:
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Jenni is an AI workspace that helps researchers publish their next groundbreaking paper.
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Hume AI is using its state-of-the-art expression AI models (available at ) to train LLMs that are deeply aligned, not based on ratings or conventions, but on the consequences of every word and action for real signs of user satisfaction and well-being
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Omnivore (
@omnivoreapp
) is an open source, read-it-later app for serious readers. Save articles, newsletters, and feeds to organize and read later in our distraction free reader.
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@MatricesAI
gives you an AI workforce that you can control via a familiar spreadsheet-like interface
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Glad to know that
@OpenAI
and I spend about the same amount of time each day looking for GPUs
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Excited for the world to finally be able to see what I worked on for three years!
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Proud of the insane progress made in only a year by the small and mighty
@pika_labs
team. More exciting things are coming soon!
It’s been a hell of a year. And today we’ve capped it off with a humbling fundraise, led by
@sparkcapital
. Huge thanks to our incredible community. We wouldn’t have gotten here without you!
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Just wait to see what
@harrisosserman
does with
@TalkHiring
. Really trying to solve problems for underserved communities
Founders from Duke classes of 2008 to 2010 have built 4 unicorns so far — Coinbase, Plaid, Airtable, and Box. There will likely be more.
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Every pedestrian and bicyclist should get 5 bricks a year to use on motorists of their choice
Every city needs the “pedestrian brick” as part of their vision zero strategy. 🧱
🎥
@VisionZeroYVR
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vibe
Dog noises into a lo-fi beat to relax/study to.
Awoo’d by Calvin (Pup of Ian’s, Suno Design Lead)
#SunoPets
#SunoAudioInput
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It can start a business for you? 🤯
Today we're thrilled to introduce Jace, your AI employee.
Jace goes beyond AI chatbots by being able to handle longer-running tasks and taking actions in the digital world.
By using our new AWA-1 (Autonomous Web Agent) model, Jace can use a browser to interact with websites
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cc: startups
In today's
@Nature
, a study shows that remote teams produce fewer breakthroughs! Disruptive science is more likely to come from groups working in close collaboration. 'Night science' discussions may require the kind of energy that's communicated in person.
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CSM Cube is an AI platform that lets anyone create game-engine ready 3D content with text or image prompts
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It turns out that you can work on problems that matter and do it alongside amazing people and have the business absolutely rip at the same time
Freed was launched 365 days ago.
Today we have: 9k loving clinicians, 1m patient visits a month, 30 of the best people I worked with, $10m arr, and $30m in the bank.
It helps me to reflect on this because 9/10 days feels like a disaster.
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The rent seekers will have to spend more time on rent seeking now that non-rent seeking will be harder to rent seek
Good news of the day:
Verdict in major class action lawsuit finds that the National Association of Realtors conspired to maintain 6% commissions in violation of US antitrust laws.
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@jobergum
@AravSrinivas
is an animal. He is one of a select few with the combination of technical depth, strategic intuition, management skills, and unbridled ambition
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Political correctness is as correct as political science is science
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@typesfast
Most medical students are more of a liability to themselves and to spread outside the hospital than an asset
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I did not expect this to be a banger
In "generative AI demonstrates surprising capabilities" can I give you the song "50 decimal places of pi"
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ggml is a tensor library for machine learning to enable large models and high performance on commodity hardware:
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It helps when 4% of global transactions are people buying dongles and replacement airpods
Took Apple less than a decade to rival Visa’s payment processing volume
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This is very cool and obviously valuable. Closing the loop in production between assets and human feedback/metrics using AI
Announcing Living Images: optimize your images with generative A/B testing 👇
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Novelty checks are my preferred form of payment
We surprised some local winners of Vol. 1 of the
#SummerofSuno
by delivering big checks for their big hits 💸🥁
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OpusClip is a GenAI video editing tool that turns long-form videos into viral shorts with just one click:
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The explosion of short-form video content will lead to higher discount rates as society becomes less able to focus on things for more than 30 seconds
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Check out for more information
Direct link to the application:
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Didero () is building the Autonomous Supply Chain, starting with an AI-native supplier management platform
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For those who remember me pitching them Kaizen in 2020 check out
@WHOOP
's newest feature!
Entities that own the data layer will be advantaged in building epic AI experiences. I'm interested in seeing what
@Apple
does with Health and its position as the data clearinghouse
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Botnet traffic hitting the Lambda Labs inventory screen will soon approach levels not seen since the Eras Tour ticket drop
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If the rate of AI adoption = how quickly Sora screenshots make it into pitch decks, $NVDA is still a buy even after these earnings
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