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@geoffreyhinton
and
@drfeifei
in conversation. Moderated by Radical's
@JordanJacobs10
.
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As underwriters of tomorrow’s innovations, venture capital needs a framework for responsible AI investing. Today Radical Ventures is pleased to share its Responsible AI for Startups (RAIS) framework - an open source resource for investors evaluating investments in AI technologies
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Watch
@geoffreyhinton
and
@drfeifei
share the stage for the first time. They talk responsible AI and revisit the groundbreaking 2012 ImageNet competition—a defining moment in modern AI . 🤖
#AIHistory
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.
@CohereAI
is among the largest companies developing cutting-edge language models that will go head-to-head with OpenAI. The Radical portfolio company was co-founded by Aidan Gomez, a co-inventor of the transformer, a key technology powering generative AI.
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Radical Ventures is excited to announce its new AI-focused fund and to welcome two new London-based partners: Dominic Barton, former global head of McKinsey and Aaron Rosenberg, formerly Head of Strategy & Operations at DeepMind. Read more in today's
@FT
:
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Radical is proud to announce our investment in
@XanaduAI
, a leader in photonic quantum computing, along with
@OMERSVentures
,
@GeorgianPrtnrs
,
@realventures
,
@SVB_Financial
and
@TimDraper
.
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Covariant's Robotics Foundation Model RFM-1 represents a remarkable leap forward toward building generalized AI models that can accurately simulate and operate in the demanding conditions of the physical world.
Today, we are introducing RFM-1, our Robotics Foundation Model giving robots human-like reasoning capabilities.
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We're excited to announce Radical's investment in
@Signal1_AI
, co-founded by Radical Partner and Co-founder
@tjpoutanen
. We share Tomi's vision for a clinical care AI platform to improve patient outcomes and reduce front-line worker stress.
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Building on our long relationship with founder and AI visionary
@RaquelUrtasun
, Radical is a proud investor in
@Waabi_ai
and its quest to solve autonomous driving.
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We share an exclusive conversation with
@pabbeel
of
@CovariantAI
and
@CameronSchuler
of
@VectorInst
from our AI Founders Master Class. Read more in this week's
#RadicalReads
.
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Every business stands to benefit from understanding how the earth is changing. We're excited to lead the Series A in
@PixxelSpace
- a hyperspectral imaging platform capable of diagnosing climate impacts at global scale.
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Amazing news for AI in Canada. The government of Canada announced a $2B+ dollar program to support the compute needs of Canadian AI companies and researchers, and to drive AI adoption among Canadian businesses.
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Sign up for Radical Reads to get the latest analysis from the world of AI delivered to your inbox every week: (it's free!) Don't miss this week's feature with AI pioneer
@GeoffreyHinton
on his new idea for solving computer vision
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In this week's
#RadicalReads
Head of
@forai_ml
,
@sarahookr
, and
@ellieevsss
of
@CohereAI
introduce a new social impact framework for generative
#AI
systems
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"The talent is here" -
@RaquelUrtasun
on Toronto's booming AI scene. Great to see Radical companies
@Waabi_ai
,
@CohereAI
and
@BenchSci
featured in today's
@nytimes
. Years of innovation and investment = the fastest growing tech hub in N.America. 🚀🚀🚀
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Radical Ventures presents a conversation between
@geoffreyhinton
&
@drfeifei
. Moderated by Radical's
@JordanJacobs10
, you won't want to miss this opportunity to hear from two of AI's most influential figures.
Register today for exclusive access:
#AI
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A
#Radical
exclusive -
@GeoffreyHinton
on 'GLOM': his big idea for solving computer vision. The AI pioneer also teases a hidden meaning in the name (say it ain't so!).
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In this week's
#RadicalReads
, an exclusive conversation with AI pioneer
@geoffreyhinton
on his vision for an entirely new form of computing built upon his new algorithm,
#ForwardForward
.
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Large language models are playing an ever-larger role for businesses across industries in 2022. With that in mind, we invited
@AidanNGomez
and
@JayAlammar
of Radical portfolio company
@CohereAI
to provide an intro to LLMs in this week's
#RadicalReads
.
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This week in
#RadicalReads
, we highlight
@cohere
’s role in advancing RAG technology and its growing importance in enhancing the functionality and reliability of AI initiatives:
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The former CFO of YouTube is joining
@CohereAI
, accelerating NLP for businesses everywhere.
I am so thrilled to welcome Cohere’s new President and COO, Martin Kon.
Formerly CFO of YouTube, Martin will play a crucial role in helping
@CohereAI
to empower businesses of all sizes to harness the power of NLP.
Welcome to Cohere, Martin.
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Congratulations to
@AidanNGomez
,
@nickfrosst
,
@1vnzh
and the entire
@CohereAI
team on its series A. Radical is proud to have been on board this rocket since liftoff. 🚀
Toronto AI startup Cohere raises US$40-million as it looks to bring Google-quality predictive language to masses
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"It’s important to have a research mindset."
@RichardSocher
sat down with Radical Partner
@_RobToews
@reworkdl
to discuss trends and challenges ahead in NLP and his progress in building an ad-free, privacy-preserving search engine:
@YouSearchEngine
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We're proud to see Radical portfolio co
@CohereAI
announce its non-profit research lab Cohere for AI dedicated to fundamental research in machine learning. Led by
@sarahookr
,
@forai_ml
is building an inclusive, distributed community of brilliant researchers from around the world.
We’ve been so excited to tell you, and now we can. We officially launched Cohere For AI (
@forai_ml
), led by the brilliant
@sarahookr
! The non-profit research lab and community will be committed to open source collaboration. Find out how to get involved at
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Congratulations to
@CohereAI
on its Series C. Another step closer to bringing generative AI to enterprises everywhere. 🚀🚀🚀
Today, we’re excited to announce new funding to help us bring generative AI to enterprises around the globe.
AI will be the heart that powers the next decade of business success, and Cohere is ready to lead the way.
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We are excited to announce our lead investment in
@YouSearchEngine
Series A kicking-off our partnership with
@RichardSocher
and the team. Radical's
@tjpoutanen
and
@dmulet
share why the world needs a new search engine.
#RadicalReads
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Congrats
@onucharlesc
and entire
@ubenwa_ai
team.
@Mila_Quebec
spinout is using AI to diagnose baby cry sounds and improve health outcomes for infants. Radical proud to lead the investment alongside Yoshua Bengio,
@aixventureshq
,
@hugo_larochelle
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We're excited to release Canada's first AI and healthcare market map created by Radical's
@SanjanaBasu14
. Read her analysis in this week's
#RadicalReads
.
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Radical is proud of our relationship with the independent thinkers who pioneered modern AI.
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Radical is proud to be a returning investor in
@CohereAI
. With investment from
@IndexVentures
@section32vc
@geoffreyhinton
@drfeifei
@RaquelUrtasun
@pabbeel
and others Cohere announced its series A today - a step closer to bringing natural language processing to every business.
Ex-Googlers raise $40 million to democratize natural-language AI
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Thrilled to welcome
@aaronbrindle1
from
@Google
to Radical Ventures as Partner and Head of Public Affairs!
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Radical Ventures is proud to lead funding for
@MyPocketHealth
as demand surges for patient-centric medical imaging platform.
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We are proud to lead this investment in
@RoadBoticsNA
and support their continued rapid growth. This is a perfect example of Artifical Intelligence solving an enormous global problem.
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We are excited to announce our investment in
@datologyai
!🚀Led by
@arimorcos
, Datology is tackling the crucial challenge of data curation, ensuring models are fed quality data for superior performance & efficiency.
@_RobToews
shares why we invested in this week's
#RadicalReads
:
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Exploring a pain free future for blood monitoring:
@synexmedical
, a Radical portfolio company, is combining miniaturized MRI technology and AI to provide next generation, non-invasive health monitoring technology.
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As noted,
@CohereAI
, a Radical portfolio company, is bringing the most sophisticated NLP systems “to any business that wants one—with a single line of code.” Cohere is investing in both tech & teams to ensure the models it deploys are safe and accountable.
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(1/6) 🎉 Congratulations to Radical Ventures portfolio companies announcing raises in the last month!
👇
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“The world has no time for science as usual.” To speed up discoveries,
@A_Aspuru_Guzik
and his research group have released the
#Kraken
– a free library of virtual, AI-calculated organic compounds.
Well, we unleashed the Kraken! A
@Sigman_Lab
-
#matterlab
@UofT
@chemuoft
@UofTCompSci
@acceleration_c
@VectorInst
collaboration long in the making made the
@ChemRxiv
server: Led by
@tobiasgensch
@gabepgomes
and many others! 1/4
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In this week's Radical Reads, an exclusive Q&A with
@geoffreyhinton
on the future of AI.
Read the entire interview here:
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Following Russia's invasion of
#Ukraine
, Radical Partner
@aaronbrindle1
reached out to
@ducha_aiki
, a Ukrainian AI researcher and ex-startup founder. We share their conversation in
#RadicalReads
this week:
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Starting at 4:00pm ET – Radical Ventures presents a conversation between
@geoffreyhinton
&
@drfeifei
. Moderated by Radical's
@JordanJacobs10
.
Register for exclusive access:
#AI
Can’t wait for my in-person (and online) conversation with Geoff
@geoffreyhinton
in a few hours! 🤩
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If you are an AI researcher interested in entrepreneurship, you can learn more about the AI Founders Master Class and registration in
#RadicalReads
:
(4/4)
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Nearly all data generated by humans is in the form of language.
@CohereAI
unlocks the potential of language for businesses through a single API. Read our thesis on the vast potential of NLP and why we're investing in the brilliant team at Cohere:
Toronto startup backed by AI experts aims to bring Google-quality predictive language to the masses
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Shakespeare expert
@StephenMarche
used the
@CohereAI
API to confirm which version of the famous "to be or not to be" speech was most likely written by
#Shakespeare
. Cohere Co-founder
@nickfrosst
comments in this week's
#RadicalReads
.
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Technology is not always a quick fix for healthcare challenges in lower income countries. Darlington Akogo, founder of
@minoHealth
, shows where AI is proving genuinely useful and overcoming difficulties in tackling diseases.
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A panel of AI experts gathered to discuss gen AI at the
@wef
in
#Davos
. The session featured
@ylecun
,
@DaphneKoller
,
@AndrewYNg
,
@kaifulee
, and
@aidangomez
, co-founder & CEO of
@Cohere
, a Radical portfolio company. We share our takeaways in
#RadicalReads
:
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Evaluating multimodal models is crucial yet challenging.
@RekaAILabs
, a Radical portco, introduced Vibe-Eval to tackle this issue. Radical's
@_RobToews
discussed its importance and industry impact with Chief Scientist
@YiTayML
, and lead authors
@PiotrPadlewski
&
@maxhbain
in
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In today’s
@FT
, Radical Managing Partner
@JordanJacobs10
, offers his perspective on why software will be replaced by AI and the profound implications for the global economy.
#AIEatsSoftware
Read more here:
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AI-native apps are reshaping the global services sector with AI, transforming verticals like legal & healthcare. Radical Investor
@molwelch
dives into how LLM-based solutions are outpacing traditional SaaS spotlighting functional analysts as game changers:
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Last week,
@globeandmail
featured Radical portfolio company
@aspectbiosys
' vision for creating implantable, living tissue therapeutics. Radical partner
@aaronbrindle1
followed up for a brief discussion with Aspect’s Co-Founder and CEO,
@_tamerm
.
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The Radical AI Founders Masterclass returned this week with Radical's
@salimteja
,
@nickfrosst
(
@cohere
) and
@gsivulka
(
@HebbiaAI
) sharing insights for founders building AI products. 🏗️
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AI eats software. Over the next decade, virtually every bit of software will be replaced by
#AI
. The implications for our world and the global economy are profound. More from Radical's
@JordanJacobs10
in
#RadicalReads
:
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Radical's
@JordanJacobs10
discusses our investment in
@Waabi_ai
and
@RaquelUrtasun
’s goal of building the next generation of autonomous driving technology in this week’s
#RadicalReads
.
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“AI is like electricity… if there was a country that said ‘Electricity was coming out, we’re not going to use it. We don’t like it.’ That country is not going to be very well off today.” – Ed Clark,
@VectorInst
Chair, Partner at Radical, former CEO of TD
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The latest episode of the
#RadicalTalks
podcast features a conversation with AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li.
@DrFeiFei
discusses how machine intelligence will transform healthcare and how we should be thinking about the human values of AI systems.
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Over the next few years, technical AI founders will disproportionately impact society, building technologies that will shape the future of how we live, work and play (a thread on the 2022 AI Founders Master Class) ⬇️ (1/4)
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Welcome to Radical
@drfeifei
!
Thrilled to welcome
@drfeifei
to
@radicalvcfund
as a Partner. Fei-Fei is a true global AI leader: one-of-a-kind teacher, researcher, advisor & mentor. Fei-Fei stays as Co-Director of
@StanfordHAI
& full Professor
@Stanford
.
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Congratulations to
@BenchSci
on its latest fundraising from Google’s AI Fund, Gradient Ventures. Radical/its partners have been investors in this fantastic team since the very beginning.
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“If you use the Cohere technology, you will find that it works very elegantly because of the combination of the software that
@AidanNGomez
's team has built and the computational infrastructure that TPUs provide."-
@googlecloud
's
@ThomasOrTK
on
@CohereAI
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Former Google CEO and Alphabet Chairman
@EricSchmidt
sits down with
@radicalvcfund
's
@JordanJacobs10
to discuss macro impacts of COVID-19 and how companies can navigate these challenging times.
Read Q&A here:
Weekly insights at
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Last week,
@XanaduAI
, a Radical portfolio company, announced the creation of the Canada Quantum Network in partnership with
@MaRSDD
and
@creativedlab
.
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Why would it be better to grow our computers than manufacture them?
@geoffreyhinton
(AI luminary, investor in Radical Ventures, and Co-founder of the
@VectorInst
) explains to
@pabbeel
(Co-founder of Radical Ventures company
@CovariantAI
) on
@therobotbrains
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How do you build a tech ecosystem? Radical co-founders
@JordanJacobs10
and
@tjpoutanen
, Partner Ed Clark,
@geoffreyhinton
and other
@UofT
AI professors founded
@VectorInst
5 years ago. Jordan shares the vision behind Vector and Radical feat. in
@nytimes
.
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Are we at a point where machines have understanding and intelligence?
@drfeifei
&
@geoffreyhinton
agree to disagree.
@JordanJacobs10
moderates a conversation between the AI pioneers sharing the stage as part of our Radical AI Founders Masterclass.
#AI
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A new book on the key players behind the modern AI era was published by
@CadeMetz
. His article recounts one of the more dramatic chapters, focusing on
@geoffreyhinton
's decision to sell DNNresearch to Google through an email auctioning process in 2013.
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🎉 Congrats to
@AlexandreRbcqt
,
@emilecontal
,
@SebastianThrun
, and the entire
@Crossing_Minds
team for announcing their $10M Series A funding today. We are proud to be lead investors in their mission toward smarter, safer AI-powered recommendations.
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@SanjanaBasu14
speaks with leading founders, researchers, and clinicians working at the intersection of AI and healthcare in our new "De-Mystifying Healthcare AI" Series. This week's guest is
@rahulgk
–
@UofT
,
@VectorInst
, and Canada
@CIFAR_News
AI Chair.
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Many of Radical’s founders, including
@onucharlesc
, Cofounder & CEO of
@ubenwa_ai
, have found the transition from AI researcher to entrepreneur deeply rewarding. Charles shares insights from his entrepreneurial journey in this week’s
#RadicalReads
:
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Radical portfolio company
@PromiseRobotics
is bringing AI and automation to the construction industry and ushering in a new era of affordable and sustainable construction. Radical Partner
@salimteja
and Promise Robotics CEO
@ramtinattar
discuss the urgency of their solution:
How robot carpenters could help solve Canada’s housing crisis
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In this week's Radical Reads: we're looking at how breakthroughs in magnetic resonance and machine learning are bringing Star Trek's Tricorder closer to reality.
@synexmedical
's vision for health tech is boldly going where only sci-fi has gone before.
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Radical portfolio company
@climateai
's forecasting tool is one of TIME's 200 best inventions of 2022. Capable of predicting weather & climate up to 10yrs into the future, ClimateAi makes supply chains more resilient in the face of climate change
#COP27
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Digital health is at an inflection point. Adoption of technology is accelerating across the healthcare sector and laying the groundwork for deep tech innovation. Read Part I of the Radical Ventures healthcare investment thesis today.
#VentureCapital
#ai
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"If we could actually create a chatbot that a human wants to talk to – it would change the interface of tech."
@aidangomezzz
, Co-Founder and CEO of
@CohereAI
, spoke with
@StephenMarche
@ElevateTechCA
about the future of language AI:
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In this week's Radical Reads, Radical's
@JordanJacobs10
discusses humanity's greatest invention: language. The dynamic and fast-growing NLP space is proof and
@CohereAI
, a Radical portfolio company (just out of stealth), is positioned to lead the space.
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Radical Ventures company
@CohereAI
announced its US $125 million Series B to enable access to one of the world’s most important tech breakthroughs of the last decade – AI transformers. Radical Partner
@_RobToews
explains this inflection point:
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The next-generation of AI breakthroughs will depend on next generation hardware. We're excited to be a returning investor in
@UntetherAI
.
Untether AI Announces Oversubscribed $125 Million Funding to Deploy High-Performance AI Inference Acceleration Chips
@intelcapital
@cppinvestments
#semiconductors
@radicalvcfund
#NeuralNetworks
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What does it take to found a successful AI company? Radical's Co-Founder
@JordanJacobs10
asked AI roboticist and multi-time founder
@pabbeel
at the
#AIFounders
Master Class kick-off last week. Read his response in
#RadicalReads
:
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Congratulations to Radical Ventures’ friend, investor and AI luminary
@geoffreyhinton
(
@VectorInst
), Yoshua Bengio (
@Mila_Quebec
),
@ylecun
(
@Meta
) and
@demishassabis
(
@DeepMind
) for winning Spain's prestigious 2022 Princess of Asturias Award (
@fpa
).
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We are excited to announce a series of additions to our leadership team to support our growing portfolio of Radical companies and the rapidly expanding market for AI venture investment.
@JordanJacobs10
shares more in this week’s
#RadicalReads
.
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The key to unlocking AI’s potential is data. And, as it turns out, there is excellent data on sperm whales.
@ProjectCETI
is one of the largest interspecies communications efforts in history.
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To kick-off
#HLTH2022
, we are excited to share Radical Investor
@SanjanaBasu14
's thoughts on Healthcare AI Entering the Mainstream: (🧵1/4)
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In this week's Radical Reads: How data holds up a mirror to who we are and the challenges our society faces.
Sign-up here to subscribe:
#ai
#artificialintelligence
#venturecapital
#deeplearning
#blacklivesmatter
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"The following statement is utterly ludicrous. It is also true. The world’s most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility." Radical Partner
@_RobToews
discusses the current chip landscape and its role in
#AI
.
#RadicalReads
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Radical Ventures Scientific Partner and
@StanfordHAI
co-director
@drfeifei
shows how machines are gaining “spatial intelligence” — the ability to process visual data, make predictions and act upon those predictions. We share her talk at
@TEDTalks
in this week's
#RadicalReads
:
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"We are entering a new era of startups that have been enabled by the past decade of progress," says
@aidangomezzz
, Co-Founder and CEO of Radical Ventures' portfolio company
@CohereAI
. He shared his thoughts with the
#AIFounders
Master Class last week.
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For researchers looking to become the next generation of
#AIFounders
,
@RichardSocher
(CEO and Co-Founder of
@YouSearchEngine
) shares his advice on building AI products. Check out his conversation with Radical's
@tjpoutanen
in this week's
#RadicalReads
:
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Radical is excited to announce our investment in
@Birch_AI
alongside
@FlareCapital
@allen_ai
@wrfseattle
. BirchAI's extraordinary founders are bringing groundbreaking NLP to tackle healthcare's costly customer service bottlenecks.
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Toronto is
#1
in tech talent growth, but not in VC investments. Radical’s
@dmulet
and
@LeahElizMorris
discuss the gap between Toronto’s recording breaking talent market and the relative amount of capital invested in this week’s
#RadicalReads
.
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Radical is proud to be a founding investor in
@RekaAILabs
. Founded by a brilliant team led by
@DaniYogatama
Reka emerged from stealth with a commercial agreement from
@SnowflakeDB
and a series A led by DST Global Partners with participation from Radical.
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@JayAlammar
of
@CohereAI
, a Radical portfolio company, shares his new series exploring the importance of
#generativeAI
models, how to approach them, map their AI tech and value stack, and better harness their power – this week in
#RadicalReads
:
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In this week's
#RadicalReads
,
@drfeifei
shares her decision to join Radical Ventures as a Scientific Partner. Fei-Fei will continue her appointment at Stanford University.
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The future of AI robotics is being created by
@CovariantAI
. We’re excited to announce our continued investment in
@peterxichen
,
@pabbeel
, and this high-calibre team.
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A baby’s cry can be a critical signal that urgent care is required. Radical's
@SanjanaBasu14
shares more about our lead investment in
@ubenwa_ai
and their pioneering AI technology that deciphers the meaning behind an infant's cry
#RadicalReads
.
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@CovariantAI
, a Radical portfolio company, released RFM-1: a game-changing robotics foundation model trained on general internet data and data rich in physical real-world interactions. Dive deeper in our latest
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