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New podcast alert!
Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI.
Hosted by me,
@gradypb
,
@stephzhan
,
@kostabuhler
and more of our
@Sequoia
partners.
Training Data is a passion project years in the making. The founders and researchers in our orbit are
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Introducing the
@sequoia
Gen AI Market Map!🌎 We’ve decided to map out this emerging frontier, thanks to all the contributions and feedback we’ve received.
This space is moving quickly – this map is a living document, so keep the suggestions coming! Who else should we include?
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Introducing V3 of the
@sequoia
Generative AI market map!
Generative AI's “Act 1” came from the technology-out. We discovered a new “hammer”—foundation models—and unleashed a wave of novelty apps that were lightweight demonstrations of cool new technology.
The market is
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As promised: here is our
@sequoia
Gen AI market map V2! Very thankful for the hundreds of folks who wrote in additions and edits. AI people are amazing 🥹
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We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play. 👽🤠
Excited to share our musings on the space here:
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of our original essay on Generative AI. Nobody could have predicted the firestorm that ensued.
In this new essay, we discuss what we got right and wrong, where we stand, and where we go from here.
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Platform shifts open the door for founders to build something new and legendary, and we're seeing a Cambrian explosion in applications. Thank you
@Bloomberg
for having me on to talk about what we're seeing in the AI market at
@sequoia
!
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🥹🥹🥹 It was an absolute joy talking to
@bizcarson
of
@protocol
about how we co-wrote our
@sequoia
Gen AI thesis with GPT-3 (and how I am bad at Twitter, among other things). Thank you, Biz!!
PS: hard at work updating the market map, ready monday :)
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We just hosted our 2nd annual
@sequoia
AI Ascent, a gathering of the 100 top founders and researchers in AI.
Big thank you to our amazing speakers including
@sama
@billpeeb
@polynoamial
of
@OpenAI
,
@arthurmensch
of
@MistralAI
,
@DanielaAmodei
of
@AnthropicAI
,
@zoink
of
@figma
,
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Congrats team
@glean
on launching Glean AI!
LLMs are more reasoning engines than knowledge bases. Generative AI is most powerful when tied with an external source of data/knowledge.
Glean points Generative AI at your company's enterprise knowledge:
- pre-crawled for speed 🐌
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Excited to announce that
@sequoia
has led the Series A in
@LangChainAI
🦜
Some more thoughts on why we invested here:
@hwchase17
is not only insanely humble but also a true visionary on turning LLMs into agents and reasoning applications. Since the early
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1/ Our mission
@Sequoia
is to help the daring build legendary companies. Now more than ever, we see that opportunity in LatAm.
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Episode 1 of our
@sequoia
AI podcast, Training Data, airs today! 🎬 Featuring
@hwchase17
of
@LangChainAI
w/ my co-host
@gradypb
in a must-listen episode on agents 🤖
Listen & subscribe (new episodes weekly):
Harrison has been a visionary on turning LLMs
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The latest AI market survey from
@retool
has some great data. Love seeing
@huggingface
and
@LangChainAI
top the AI dev tools charts!
How are companies *𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲* using AI? We surveyed 1500+ devs, builders, and business leaders to explore production use cases, the models, infrastructure, and tools people are using, and much more. Dig into the new report:
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We
@Sequoia
are excited to double down on our partnership with
@FireworksAI_HQ
@lqiao
and lead their Series B.
The AI inference market is inflecting sharply, and Fireworks is leading the market shift to compound AI systems.
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🤖⚡️ Thrilled to announce that
@sequoia
has led
@streamlit
's Series B, and I'll be representing Sequoia on the board.
Excited for a future of beautiful, interactive data apps 🎈
Read more:
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Copywriting tools like
@copy_ai
@heyjasperai
@getanyword
@ContendaCo
@regieai
@copysmith_ai
@hypotenuse_labs
make it easy to generate blog posts, product descriptions, landing pages, Tweets, and more. Who needs a $200K ghostwriter when you have ? 👀
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Glean laid the foundation for enterprise search. Now, LLMs are unlocking its value.
Here is a wonderful profile of
@jainarvind
's arc, from star Google search engineer in 2003 to building
@glean
.
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Text-to-image models make us feel like the next Picasso or Studio Ghibli.
@OpenAI
@midjourney
@StabilityAI
@WOMBOAI1
@craiyonAI
each allow us to create images with a different mood or timbre. Up next: more sophisticated editors, social experiences, search engines, and more.
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I'm delighted to share that we
@Sequoia
are leading
@MeetApollo
's $110M Series C! Apollo is making intelligent, data-driven GTM accessible for everyone. We were captivated by their product-led growth and raving customer reviews. Congrats Tim, Ray & Apollo!
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"Every industry is getting reinvented by A.I.”
@sonyatweetybird
discusses this watershed moment for technology on
@Bloomberg
.
Watch here:
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Bravo to the
@NotionHQ
team on creating one of the most elegant and thoughtful Gen ai experiences I’ve seen yet 😍
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Last week
@FactoryAI
announced a new record on the AI coding benchmark SWE-bench. This week, founders
@matanSF
and
@EnoReyes
talk about their vision for autonomous Droids, Archimedes' compound lever, and their latest SWE-bench results on our new
@sequoia
AI podcast, Training Data
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When Jim Gao first saw
#AlphaGo
, he went to
@demishassabis
at
@GoogleDeepMind
with a bold proposal: let reinforcement learning run wild on Google's data centers. Demis accepted, and the results were astounding: 40% data center energy savings.
One of my favorite episodes of
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It’s exciting to think about how AI can help rapidly concept fantastic new worlds in film, television, and more.
@SALT_VERSE
is creating a 70s style scifi multi-plot film, built entirely with generative models.
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Marketers can’t have all the fun – the rest of us get writer’s block too. What about a new text editor with generation at its core? Think Google Docs that can generate entire paragraphs for you.
@Get_Writer
#Moonbeam
#Lex
are exploring this space.
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Foundation models have shaken up the digital world... but what about robotics?
On this week’s Training Data,
@stephzhan
and I spoke to
@DrJimFan
about
@Nvidia
's Project GR00T and his quest to build a generalist "foundation agent" that transcends skills, forms, and realities.
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Update: grateful & overwhelmed by the sheer volume of additions, corrections, and support on this map! Getting to work organizing this all into an updated map. Will be back soon. Keep the suggestions coming :)
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60% of
@sequoia
's seed investments this year have been in AI. 🌲✨
More from
@roelofbotha
below. The full interview
@BloombergTV
is worth a watch!
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Enterprise search is a beast of a problem, but
@GleanWork
has finally cracked the code on organizing knowledge work. Glean's user love and engagement rivals the best enterprise productivity tools. We
@Sequoia
are thrilled to lead their $100M Series C.
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Now that machines can read, they can auto populate companies' knowledge bases with semantic understanding. This means Gen AI can answer questions and file and retrieve documents - a smart, self organizing workspace.
@gleanwork
@memdotai
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On our new
@sequoia
AI podcast Training Data,
@LangChainAI
founder
@hwchase17
talked to us about the idea of a middle ground for AI agents that are in between hard-coded chains and fully-autonomous agents that fly off the rails. Constraints are key to a “goldilocks” zone that are
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Physicists are the secret weapon of many great ai research institutions - and we are lucky to have our own AI researcher x physicist in
@danintheory
.
Here is Dan on the physics of AI - worth the read!
Extreme scenarios of AI focus on what is logically possible rather than what is physically possible.
What does physics have to say about AI risk?
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Design - from interiors/architecture to software to physical products - is up for reinvention. Moodboarding, inspiration, iteration should become drastically faster and better. Less time wasted pushing pixels or organizing artifacts manually.
@diagram
is a nice example here.
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In 2019 Google researcher
@fchollet
wrote a paper defining intelligence as skill-acquisition efficiency–the ability to learn new skills as humans do. To make it testable he proposed a new benchmark, the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC).
@Zapier
co-founder
@mikeknoop
read
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Video - one of the richest but hardest-to-master mediums of communication - is getting democratized.
@runwayml
is making it possible for anybody to create Hollywood quality movies with text-to-video, text-based colorization and more.
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Gaming experiences may be generated by users or machines on the fly – with AAA level quality.
@AiDungeon
was one of the first projects to imagine the experience using text-based models, and image and 3D should be ready soon. Here is “Raccoon Heist” from
@simonwu
:
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We've updated the timeline to reflect more recent conversations with very smart people. In all likelihood, this Gen AI future is coming faster than we originally wrote. Keep the feedback coming! 🦾
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My favorite part of
@hwchase17
's Training Data episode is his section on cognitive architectures.
Harrison: You can think of cognitive architectures as a "graph" where you've encoded your mental model into the application logic. This graph helps to guide and constrain agents at
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I’m also on cloud nine from a week of conversations with incredible AI founders!
@gradypb
@KostaBuhler
@romie_boyd
@charliecurnin
and I are holding
@sequoia
AI Office Hours as a way to meet more founders & builders: please sign up here!
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1/ Congrats to
@Streamlit
on joining forces with
@SnowflakeDB
. Snowflake pioneered the cloud data movement, and Streamlit transformed the ability to visualize and interact with data. We believe this combination will accelerate the field of BI.
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Gen AI is unleashing a creativity explosion ⚡️
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Congratulations
@jainarvind
and Team
@glean
! It has been an absolute joy seeing you become the leading enterprise AI assistant, beloved by knowledge workers and AI teams and IT teams alike. It's been a whirlwind year, and the best is yet to come :-)
Five years ago, we set out to build
@Glean
with the simple goal of helping people find the answers they need to do their best work. Today, we're excited to share that we’ve raised over $200M at a $2.2B valuation led by
@kleinerperkins
and
@lightspeedvp
!
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New Training Data episode drop! Today we're excited to feature
@EricSteinb
, one of the great AI researchers of the current/next generation, from the epic story of how he became
@polynoamial
's collaborator as a high school student to advice for young researchers.
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The north star for
@FireworksAI_HQ
is simple API access to the totality of knowledge.
The big unlock? Compound AI systems orchestrating 10's/100's/1000's of models and components.
On Episode 9 of Training Data from
@Sequoia
,
@gradypb
and I spoke to
@lqiao
about compound AI.
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These apps provide an interesting glimpse into what the future may hold. Once you see a machine produce complex functioning code or brilliant images, it’s hard to imagine a future where machines don’t play a fundamental role in how we work and create.
We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play. 👽🤠
Excited to share our musings on the space here:
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🤠
@LangChainAI
@hwchase17
making moves!! langchain gets you from 0 → 1 with LLMs... and now langsmith takes you from 1 → production with a unified platform to debug, test, evaluate, and monitor your apps. Amazed by this team's ambition and SPEED in the fast-moving ai field.
🦜🛠️ Introducing LangSmith 🦜🔗
A unified platform to help developers debug, test, evaluate, and monitor their LLM applications.
Integrates seamlessly with LangChain, but doesn't require it.
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Had a blast chatting data apps at
#SnowflakeBUILD
with
#StefanWilliams
and
@ttunguz
. Thank you
@SnowflakeDB
for having us at the ❄️coolest❄️ event in data!
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Speech Gen allows us to immerse ourselves in experiences that bring out the emotional and expressive qualities of human speech.
@play_ht
is bringing some of these legends to life in podcast form. We're deep in the uncanny valley with this one.
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These Droids also are the most advanced AI coding systems that exist, thanks to the Factory Team’s breakthrough research in orchestration, retrieval, and planning.
SWE-bench () is the industry-leading standard for benchmarking AI coding ability. Factory’s
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Exciting times for the modern data stack! And now the last mile -- dubbed "operational analytics" -- is here. Welcome
@getcensus
@borisjabes
to the
@sequoia
fam 💫
The modern data stack:
@SnowflakeDB
@getdbt
@fivetran
@LookerData
@getcensus
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3/ We
@Sequoia
are actively looking to meet entrepreneurs in LatAm who are building the next generation of enduring companies. If you are a founder in LatAm and would like to meet, shoot us a note at latam
@sequoiacap
.com. We can't wait to meet you. 🌲
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It's been a BIG week for AI. Excited to discuss the implications for builders & startups at
@axios
AI Summit with
@AnjneyMidha
@imkialikethecar
. Tune in tomorrow at 4:45p for the livestream! 🎶
Catch
@sequoia
Capital partner,
@sonyatweetybird
and
@a16z
General Partner
@AnjneyMidha
in conversation with
@Iamkialikethecar
at the
#AxiosAISummit
in San Francisco.
Tune in at 4:45pm PT on Nov. 8:
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Biggest “what’s next” for LLM infra: self improving LLM apps. making the current way we build LLM apps look quaint. go
@LangChainAI
!
IMO this is the future for a lot of GenAI apps
Automatically achieve better & more personalized LLM apps by:
- Log all LLM outputs
- Log feedback for those outputs
- Use feedback to build datasets
- Use datasets as few shot examples
Want to do this for your app? Shoot me a DM
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tune in to our ai ascent playlist on youtube!
@hwchase17
on agents is a must-watch
We've added new videos to our AI Ascent playlist.
Hear thoughts on the future of AI from
@LangChainAI
's
@hwchase17
and
@LightmatterCo
's
@theanalognick
📺
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A treasure trove of lessons from a treasure of a human being. Lucky to be on your team,
@gradypb
🍀
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Congrats
@census
@borisjabes
!!! The modern data stack
@snowflakeDB
@getdbt
has forever changed the way we store and analyze data. The next frontier is taking action on that data, in all of your tools. Excited for the role
@census
is playing to paint that future.
So excited to announce our $60M Series B! It's been a wild journey but every year gets more interesting, especially when growing 10x :-)
I love the work we do
@census
– w/ operational analytics we make data teams the linchpin of their organization!
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Congratulations
@nubank
on $NU! We’re so honored to have been part of the journey with
@velez_david
from day one to
#NuDay
.
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Excited to see AI projects graduating from blue-sky ideas & weekend hackathons into production..
@fintual
is tackling one of the most interesting (and meaningful) conversational experiences out there: a user-facing financial advisor built on LLMs.
[and built and hardened with
Fintual Copiloto
La primera solución de inversiones personales con inteligencia artificial en México.
3 de agosto.
Daremos acceso primero a las personas que se inscriban en
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In the latest episode of Training Data (
@sequoia
's AI podcast),
@Microsoft
CTO
@kevin_scott
reflected on the early days of the
@OpenAI
partnership and their shared conviction in scaling laws. Tune in to hear more about the beginnings of their epic partnership.
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So excited to be working with
@gastonirigoyen
!!!
Fintech is one of the most interesting opportunities in LatAm -- and the infrastructure supporting this boom is antiquated.
@pomelo_latam
is fixing that.
Vamos!!! 🇧🇷🍊
Sequoia invierte en Pomelo y desembarcamos en Brasil 🚀🇧🇷
Hoy anunciamos U$D 1 millón de inversion adicional, elevando nuestra ronda seed a un total de U$D 10 millones.
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Congratulations
@jainarvind
and
@glean
! It's been a joy to see you evolve from ambitious technologist to CEO of one of the best enterprise companies of the AI era. Can't wait to see what's ahead for Glean -- first search, then assistant, then apps... agents next? :-)
Today, I’m excited to share that
@Glean
has raised over $260M in new funding at a $4.6B valuation co-led by Altimeter and DST Global, as well as launched exciting new product capabilities that together will enable Glean’s Work AI platform to expand its reach and deliver everyday
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Woo hoo go
@streamlit
!!!
Several startups on the enterprise AI list are trying to make it easier for data science teams to work with machine-learning models, including
@huggingface
,
@appzen
,
@OctoML
,
@focalsystems
,
@hypersonix_ai
and
@streamlit
🔍
#ti50
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On our latest episode of Training Data,
@EnoReyes
of
@FactoryAI
shared this pearl of advice for AI founders:
"Build something that you think is going to get 10x better when OpenAI releases GPT-6 or 7. We think of our product as something that will multiply in value and
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We've tried to keep this map high signal:noise and only included apps where generative AI (defined as LLMs or other unsupervised learning + generative) is core to the product experience. We also couldn't fit every single image or copy generation app.
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How will society navigate AI's impacts on employment?
@klarna
already has AI performing the work of 700 customer service reps, with higher CSAT. But what about the human impacts?
@klarnaseb
shared a nuanced take on the path ahead on episode 6 of
@sequoia
's Training Data.
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🤯🧬
🪐 Introducing Galactica. A large language model for science.
Can summarize academic literature, solve math problems, generate Wiki articles, write scientific code, annotate molecules and proteins, and more.
Explore and get weights:
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Taking long context to a whole new order of magnitude... Congratulations on 100 million
@EricSteinb
! and excited to finally make things official :)
LTM-2-Mini is our first model with a 100 million token context window. That’s 10 million lines of code, or 750 novels.
Full blog:
Evals, efficiency, and more ↓
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On the latest episode of Training Data from
@Sequoia
,
@stephzhan
and I spoke with
@GitHub
CEO
@ashthomas
to hear how a small team at GitHub built on top of GPT-3 and quickly created a product that developers love—and can’t live without.
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A powerful must read.
The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.
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so cute... can't wait for gen ai emojis to replace the current set 🥹
I trained a
#stablediffusion
model with dreambooth to make some cute icons! you can find the whole set and the model here:
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Again, this is a living document, so please keep sending tips and edits over :)
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HOORAY
@streamlit
custom theming & dark mode is here!!! excited to unleash my inner picasso 👨🎨🎨🌘
Introducing Custom Theming 🌈 and Dark Mode🌛
Upgrade to easily toggle between Light Mode, Dark Mode or your own Custom Theme!
📖 Read more:
🧪 Sample app:
#datascience
#python
#theme
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This map is still far from complete & far from perfect. We had the difficult task of filtering through a long list of amazing companies and narrowing it down to this set. I'm sure I made mistakes along the way. If there's something I overlooked, please DM me!
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Ever since
@klarnaseb
tweeted about how
@klarna
got AI to handle the work of 700 customer service reps, every company is asking “How do we get the Klarna customer support thing?”
He joins us on this week’s Training Data to explain how they did it.
LINK:
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Companies like:
@ironclad_inc
building AI for legal contracting
@Gong_io
@clarihq
@MeetApollo
using AI to change how sales teams operate and perform
@Neeva
and
@glean
using AI to change how we use search engines as consumers and knowledge workers
And many more.
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Outsiders Wanted: new
@sequoia
inference essay inspired by our Training Data conversation with
@mikeknoop
on the outlier spirit required to generate new ideas, with
@gradypb
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2/ We’ve been blown away by the current wave of founders in LatAm. They have big ambitions, strategic thinking, operational excellence, and passion for what they are building.
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I hope this provides some clarity on our current thinking on the AI landscape, why we remain long-term patient and excited (despite the hype/frothiness in the market), and what we are looking for when we meet AI founders!
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I'm excited to join and support the journey alongside an amazing board
#Nico
@KaszekVentures
@federicoantoni
@ALLVP_
@ohjertonsson
@kaiskhimji
. Let's go!!! ⚡️
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@glean
AI team 🔥🔥🔥
Practical lessons from building an enterprise LLM-based assistant:
1/ There's a common misconception that you can just finetune an LLM on your company's data. However:
- Finetuning is better suited to teaching specialized tasks, than to injecting new knowledge
- Finetuning is
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A
@streamlit
BOOK!! 🤯💕
🎈 Check out this new Streamlit book!! Congrats to Streamlit creator
@tylerjrichards
for writing "Getting Started with Streamlit for Data Science" - released today! 🥳
🤩 Learn more:
📕 Book:
#DataScience
#Python
#MachineLearning
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@hwchase17
General agents are still hard... but when you constrain the state space, performance gets to "good enough" pretty quickly. Examples include
@Klarna
's customer support bot or
@elastic
's security agent.
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@gleanwork
@sequoia
Congrats
@jainarvind
! Delighted to work with Team Glean and
@mamoonha
@ravi_lsvp
@kleinerperkins
@lightspeedvp
@generalcatalyst
✨
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4/ Adrien, Amanda, and Thiago have been dream founders to work with. They listen, they care, they galvanize their team and community. They’re both visionary and clear-eyed about what the future of data applications holds. It has been an honor to serve on Streamlit's board.
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Great feature on
@glean
@jainarvind
-- making generative ai at work, work 💼 Watch this team, they are going places.
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The team
@fintual
#pedropineda
@AgustinF
@omarlarre
@asmarinkovic
is sheer delight to work with, a product/engineering-first culture with a one-of-a-kind, Chilean sense of humor. It's no wonder they were voted the best place to work in Chile.
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5/ I look forward to seeing a future where Streamlit is ubiquitous and could not think of a better and more supportive partner to make that magic happen than Snowflake. Congratulations
@myelbows
@cutlasskelly
@ThiagoTDotCom
and the entire Streamlit team!
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The AI landscape has expanded at a furious pace. When we published our AI landscape last September, there were only a handful of companies. All of a sudden, it feels like every company is an AI company.
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