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a early-stage venture capital firm purpose-built for Software 3.0 🔧

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wow @Pika_Labs 🐇 the rabbit hole looks so good
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Pika
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Sry, we forgot our password. PIKA 1.5 IS HERE. With more realistic movement, big screen shots, and mind-blowing Pikaffects that break the laws of physics, there’s more to love about Pika than ever before. Try it.
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Joshua Xu
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So excited to announce @HeyGen_Official 's new Avatar 3.0! Our avatars have evolved beyond lip-syncing to feature full-body dynamic motion. For the first time, our avatars' facial expressions and voice tones are dynamically generated to perfectly match the script. Available at
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sarah guo // conviction
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1/The small but mighty @chaidiscovery team has released Chai-1, an open-weights, frontier multimodal molecular structure prediction model, on par with AlphaFold3. As powerful as Chai-1 is, it was shipped after only 4 months of work — and is just a glimpse of what’s coming.
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Karan Goel
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we've opened up the private beta for Sonic on-device Sonic is the fastest cloud voice gen model (), and we've squeezed all of these capabilities into a model you can run locally fill out this form if you want to get early access
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@akothari
Akshay Kothari
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Really enjoyed listening to this podcast with @saranormous . Lots of unique insights on the AI ecosystem. Also, so impressive what she's built with @w_conviction ! Worth a listen:
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Joshua Xu
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of our partnership with @w_conviction . It’s been an incredible experience working with @saranormous and @prnvrdy . Choosing Conviction was one of our best decisions in 2023. Final reminder: Applications for Embed close this Friday, 8/23. This
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Guillermo Rauch
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2 days left to apply to Embed by @saranormous – very high quality AI-focused startup program
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Ian Cairns
2 months
One of the hardest problems with model-graded evals in AI products is tuning them to agree with human experts. At @freeplay_ai made it radically easier to create custom auto-evals you can trust and tune them over time. Demo below, how it works in thread. 🧵
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Kayvon Beykpour
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An “Invest like the Best” series without interviewing @saranormous would make no sense because she is incredible at what she does and I’m constantly inspired by her hunger and hustle as an investor
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@winstonweinberg
Winston Weinberg
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@saranormous 's advice has had a significant impact on how we've scaled our product at @harvey__ai . Will compound as models improve.
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sarah guo // conviction
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1/9 One week left to apply to @w_conviction EMBED, the $150K grant program for the best AI startups. There are big AI companies coming - here are 6 ideas we like. Apply if this is you (or you have something better) Links below to full list. Follow for more! cc: @prnvrdy @mvernal
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sarah guo // conviction
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1/8 Another day, another set of "software 3.0" ideas from the @w_conviction team. Working on one of these, or something better? Apply to ᴄᴏɴᴠɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ᴇᴍʙᴇᴅ, our compute+community catalyst for the next great AI startups. Full theses and links below. cc @prnvrdy @mvernal
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Pranav Reddy
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just updated our running list of startup ideas. first one is "many, many materials" -- a flurry of new matsci papers show really interesting new capabilities to design & synthesize new materials thanks to @theo_gervet and @NJSzymanski and others for their thoughts
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sarah guo // conviction
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1/3 Applications are open for Embed v3, due 8/23! Embed is a Schelling Point for the highest quality early-stage founders in AI: offering compute $$, catalyst and community Follow @W_Conviction for updates, links below ⬇️
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sarah guo // conviction
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by popular request, next @w_Conviction Forum dinner in July is on evals! if you are responsible for evals of AI products as a customer, a researcher working on evals, or a founder/builder figuring this out as part of quality and want to join, pls ping
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sarah guo // conviction
4 months
Thrilled to continue working with @joshua_xu_ @wayne_liang_ and great partners @victoralazarte @peterfenton on building a dominant visual storytelling platform 📺
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@Day_ai_app
Day.ai
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is Reimagining CRM for the AI Age. Today, we’re excited to announce our $4M fundraise, led by @sequoia with participation from @pillar_vc , @w_conviction , @Stage2Capital , @InspiredCap , @20SALES_vc and a number of amazing angels. Read the full announcement
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sarah guo // conviction
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eng/research/product talent — meet career-making startups! 👩‍💻 our first ᴍɪxᴛᴜʀᴇ-ᴏꜰ-ᴇxᴘᴇʀᴛs in SF on 6/12: hear from founders of @basetenco @cognition_labs @cursor_ai @HeyGen_Official Latent Health @runsybil why you should join builders, sign up
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sarah guo // conviction
4 months
Embed Batch #2 Demo Day Glimpse into the future 👀 @w_conviction
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@demi_guo_
Demi Guo
4 months
We recently raised an $80M Series B. So much has happened over the past year, and I’m incredibly proud of the team! A huge thank you to all of our investors, supporters, and community members—we couldn’t have done it without you! Here's to the long journey ahead. 🙌💪😃
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