Investing in startups with
@natfriedman
+
@danielgross
; run
@aigrant
and the Andromeda Cluster; stan dogs and warm carbs & cheese; tech/AI for human flourishing
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
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!
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):
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):
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!
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.
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
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
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!
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 $100m!
If you're interested in building the future, please do reach out to me or the team!
has trained a groundbreaking model with many millions of tokens of context that performed far better in our evals than anything we've tried before.
They're using it to build an advanced AI programmer that can reason over your entire codebase and the
Matic builds home robots with level-5 autonomy. It has developed Tesla FSD for the Indoor World making robots capable of exploring, self-mapping, and navigating any unknown indoor space with ultra precision using just 5 RGB cameras with all the processing on the edge device.
Excited to deepen our partnership with
@AravSrinivas
and the
@perplexity_ai
Team!
I still remember when they launched BirdSQL right after the first
@aigrant_
batch and part of me is still hoping that it comes back as an Enterprise Pro feature 😅
Excited to announce we've raised 62.7M$ 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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+
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
@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"
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
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!
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
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:
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
@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
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
BREAKING: We have partnered with
@OpenAI
to launch WHOOP Coach today, the most advanced generative AI feature to ever be released by a wearable.
Members can now ask
@whoop
anything about their data - and receive instant feedback.