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Rob Toews

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Rob Toews

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3 years

Venture capital requires you to be exceptionally optimistic and exceptionally skeptical at the same time. It is not an easy balance, but man it is fun.

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just wait until GPT-4 drops in a couple months.

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AI expert Fei-Fei Li joins Radical Ventures as partner

She will continue her full-time work at Stanford, joining the venture firm in an advisory capacity.

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New HELM results from Stanford are out. @CohereAI beats everyone.

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For those of you intrigued or confused by @ylecun and @GaryMarcus ’ ongoing Twitter spat about symbolism and connectionism, check out my recent Forbes article for some context:

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meeting with AI founders every day, it's impossible not to reach this conclusion: the next five years in AI are going to be absolutely bonkers.

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remember when people thought Miami was going to be the next Silicon Valley lmao

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Rob Toews

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"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Rob Toews

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I am curious to see how many VCs will still be all in on AI 12, 18, 24 months from now.

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The Next Generation Of Large Language Models

As amazing as ChatGPT seems to us now, it is a mere stepping stone to what comes next.

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If you are interested in AI, you should be paying attention to this.

The Geopolitics Of AI Chips Will Define The Future Of AI

The field of artificial intelligence faces an astonishingly precarious single point of failure in Taiwan.

www.forbes.com

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let me know what you agree and disagree with!

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Rob Toews

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It was an absolute pleasure speaking at Upfront Summit last week with @DaveRogenmoser from Jasper, @c_valenzuelab from Runway, and Phil Blunsom from Cohere about generative AI. One sharp group!

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Rob Toews

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Nice shoutout in the New York Times today. Tech hype cycles come and go. We @radicalvcfund were committed to AI before this one came, and we will continue to be after it passes.

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Rob Toews

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Great line from @GaryMarcus ’ new book: “The real reason computers can’t read is that they lack even a basic understanding of how the world works.” This is why the Turing Test (while imperfect) has stood....

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🤖 + 🧬 = 🚀

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A lot of people are talking about conversational search. just shipped it. Huge congratulations to @RichardSocher and @YouSearchEngine — the team creating the future of search!

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Today, youChat goes live. Open, broadly capable, conversational AI for search with knowledge of recent events and citations of sources. Search and chat of the future:

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Rob Toews

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GPT-3 Is Amazing—And Overhyped

It is important for the technology community to have a more clear-eyed understanding of what GPT-3 can and cannot do.

www.forbes.com

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Rob Toews

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Thrilled to welcome Dominic Barton (former head of McKinsey) and Aaron Rosenberg (former head of strategy & operations at DeepMind) as Partners at Radical!

Artificial intelligence pioneers back $550mn fund for AI start-ups

Radical Ventures secures investment from leaders Fei-Fei Li and Geoffrey Hinton among others

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LLMs have ushered in a period of unreal possibilities. There are dozens of great startups that should exist that don’t yet. We have a ludicrous oversupply of great startup ideas. Great ideas are 1%. Execution is 99%. The next couple years will be fun!

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Rob Toews

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It was a real pleasure speaking at the SALT Conference in NYC last week about all things AI alongside @AndrewYNg , @May_Habib and @1vnzh . Very fun conversation!

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Rob Toews

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@aifazza @GaryMarcus @lacker if GPT-4 has 10x or 100x more parameters than GPT-3, I agree that error rate will be lower. expect diminishing returns, though. more broadly, this doesn't change the fact that it still will lack internal representations, understanding, the ability to reason 😊

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@KateClarkTweets I do not know of any early-stage VC firm that has more *true* AI startups in its portfolio than @radicalvcfund

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Rob Toews

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I have published AI predictions in Forbes for the past four years. These are my spiciest predictions yet 😏 Let me know what you agree with and what you disagree with!

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Rob Toews

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4 years

this article has a list....you know you love lists!

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Rob Toews

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An exciting day for @Zoox - the most badass AV crew out there. The future is bright!

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Amazon acquires self-driving start-up Zoox for over $1.2bn

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the intersection of LLMs and robotics (any AI agent that can make stuff happen in the physical world) is going to be NUTS

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Rob Toews

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Congrats to @charleskfisher and @UnlearnAI on their Series B! We are thrilled to invest and join the company's journey, together with @insightpartners .

Clinical trial digital twin service Unlearn.AI raises $50M

Unlearn.AI, a startup developing 'digital twin' technology for clinical trial applications, has raised $60 million in a venture round led by Insight Partners.

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The Geopolitics Of AI Chips Will Define The Future Of AI

The field of artificial intelligence faces an astonishingly precarious single point of failure in Taiwan.

www.forbes.com

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Rob Toews

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if you are looking for something to stress out about, I have just the article for you

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Rob Toews

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There is a lot of buzz right now about LLMs and foundation models. @twelve_labs is building an entirely new kind of foundation model: a foundation model for videos. Excited to lead Twelve Labs' latest round with our friends @IndexVentures and @WndrCoLLC

Twelve Labs lands $12M for AI that understands the context of videos | TechCrunch

Twelve Labs, a startup building an AI-powered platform to understand the context of videos, has raised $12 million in an extended seed round.

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Synthetic Data Is About To Transform Artificial Intelligence

Synthetic data is one of those ideas that seems almost too good to be true.

www.forbes.com

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Rob Toews

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People who say that AI will be "as big as the internet" or "the next internet" are dramatically underestimating AI's importance.

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Rob Toews

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Reading books and articles that you disagree with is an important habit to get into.

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Rob Toews

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Could not be more excited to partner with the team at @DominoDataLab -- the future of data science and machine learning in the enterprise

Domino Data Lab

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Did you see the news? Today Domino announced a new ML model monitoring product, $43M in new funding, and innovations to our enterprise data science management platform. #modelops #modelmonitoring #datasciencemanagement

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Rob Toews

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Congratulations to Radical portfolio companies @CohereAI , Waabi and @UnlearnAI on being named to Forbes' "AI 50" list of the 50 top AI startups in the world. It was a lot of fun serving as a VC judge for the list this year! The AI 50 2023 ()

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Rob Toews

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treat yourself. read an article that has absolutely nothing to do with COVID-19.

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Rob Toews

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here are the books you should REALLY be reading this holiday break:

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Rob Toews

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I would love to hear your reactions—especially if you disagree with me!

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it has never been more important to understand how we can improve our broken healthcare system

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Rob Toews

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every now and then, the sequel is better than the original!

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Rob Toews

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deep learning and genomics are a match made in heaven. watch this space.

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Rob Toews

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4 years

new Forbes article — with a message of encouragement to AI entrepreneurs everywhere :)

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Rob Toews

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It is a real pleasure to be giving a TED Talk next week at @TEDAI2023 alongside Andrew Ng, Reid Hoffman, Ilya Sutskever and so many other amazing AI leaders. Looking forward to it!

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Rob Toews

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AlphaFold Is The Most Important Achievement In AI—Ever

Machine learning will transform the life sciences in the years ahead.

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Rob Toews

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@ylecun this is a straw man. I do not know of anyone calling for a pure rules-based approach. Advocates of a hybrid approach, like @GaryMarcus , are suggesting combining learning-based and symbolic techniques. Learning remains essential — this is inherent in the word “hybrid”

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Rob Toews

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hot off the presses!

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Rob Toews

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3 years

Writing is an extension of thinking. To write well you must first think well.

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Rob Toews

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thanks @cajundiscordian ! It would be fun to discuss further

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Rob Toews

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the wisest four words in venture capital: Back The Right People

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Rob Toews

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This is one of the really big, outside-the-box ideas in AI today: should machine learning models have more intelligence "built in" (like humans do)? @TonyZador

A critique of pure learning and what artificial neural networks can learn from animal brains

Nature Communications - Recent gains in artificial neural networks rely heavily on large amounts of training data. Here, the author suggests that for AI to learn from animal brains, it is important...

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Rob Toews

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2 years

@gdb what do you think, @ylecun ?

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Rob Toews

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Excited for @TEDAI2023 today. So many fantastic speakers and important topics!

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Rob Toews

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4 years

AI is putting the "Silicon" back in Silicon Valley:

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Rob Toews

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@GaryMarcus so little, indeed for those not familiar, here is @GaryMarcus ' insightful take on GPT-2's shortcomings - highly relevant to GPT-3:

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Rob Toews

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Grading the 2023 AI predictions that we made at the end of last year:

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Rob Toews

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PSA: Building cutting-edge large language models is very hard. There are very few people in the world who know how to do it. If a magical shortcut appears that suddenly makes something very hard seem very easy, it is probably too good to be true.

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Rob Toews

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Congratulations to the 6 @RadicalVCFund portfolio companies that made CB Insights' AI 100 list for 2022, announced today!

AI 100: The most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2022 - CB Insights Research

The AI 100 is CB Insights' annual list of the 100 most promising private AI companies in the world. This year’s winners are working on diverse solutions designed to recycle plastic waste, improve...

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Rob Toews

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remember Clubhouse?

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Rob Toews

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@nathanbenaich you should check out this article!

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to those into genetics: it is truly incredible that Darwin and Mendel lived at the same time on the same continent and never crossed paths. the ultimate “what might have been”

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Rob Toews

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It's not often that two of the world's leading legends get on a stage together to talk about the past and future of their field. This conversation between @geoffreyhinton and @drfeifei , brought to you by @radicalvcfund , will be a special evening.

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Rob Toews

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Thanks Mario! Fun to share thoughts about the future of AI alongside @saammotamedi , @reidhoffman , @nathanbenaich , @LM_Braswell , @mattturck , @catherwu , @xuezhao , @saranormous , @mhdempsey

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It's been an insane year in AI. To try and understand what's going on, I asked 10 awesome investors what trends and companies to watch out for. Here's what they said 👇 🧠 🔗

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Rob Toews

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awesome AI angel portfolio from @olivercameron - exciting set of companies that showcases the transformative impact that AI will have across industries

Oliver Cameron

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AI is changing everything, and it's not just ChatGPT or self-driving cars. You'd be surprised at just how broadly AI is being applied across tons of industries. I’ve now invested in 50 AI startups, and here are some recent investments using AI in fascinating applications 👇

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Rob Toews

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a touch of philosophy for your Saturday afternoon:

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Rob Toews

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It was a lot of fun speaking with @paulinebhyang at Altimeter and @danny_lange at Unity about all things AI on the inaugural episode of the Cross Validated podcast. Thanks for having me!

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Excited to launch Cross Validated podcast, where we speak with practitioners & builders making AI deployments a reality! @altcap Our first guest is @danny_lange , SVP of AI @unity , w guest host @_RobToews @radicalvcfund We have been studying and investing in AI over last few yrs

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Rob Toews

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Writing is the most frustrating and the most fulfilling intellectual activity there is.

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if you work in the field of artificial intelligence, and you don't find yourself bumping up against philosophical questions pretty regularly, you're doing it wrong

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Rob Toews

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It was a blast guest-hosting Redpoint’s AI podcast alongside my pal @jacobeffron and interviewing @npew , who leads OpenAI’s commercialization and product efforts. Fascinating and enlightening discussion. Enjoy!

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Rob Toews

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this is huge. congrats @Cohere !

Thomas Kurian

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Excited about our multi-year partnership to power @CohereAI ’s natural language processing technology with Cloud TPUs, making it easier and more cost-effective for any organization to use AI to better understand their customers.

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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” —Albert Einstein

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Synthetic data is an idea whose time has come.

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👏👏

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Unpopular thoughts: AI is deep tech. It is not commoditized. Building a real AI startup is not like building a SaaS startup.

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Rob Toews

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Hubert Dreyfus’ classic book “What Computers Still Can’t Do” (originally published in 1972, updated in 1992) is a great reminder that, while the amount of compute and data available today is a new thing, the fundamental concepts at the core of AI are not Some choice quotes 👇

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Rob Toews

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in a world that has gone crazy over AI, I am deeply appreciative to work with the best people in the world at the biggest VC firm in the world focused exclusively on AI. onward!

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It is sometimes said, “Today’s AI is just statistics.” The only part of this that is incorrect is the word “just.” Statistics is incredibly powerful, especially when paired with digital computation — more than powerful enough to generate intelligent behavior.

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thanks, @ylecun ! means a lot coming from you

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Good article on LLMs at Forbes. The media are starting to agree with my much-criticized statements about LLMs. "LLMs as they exist today will never replace Google Search. Why not? In short, because today’s LLMs make stuff up."

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I bet you disagree with this article

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4 years

great reporting by @theinformation and big ups to @DominoDataLab ! the "AI boom" has just begun, and Domino is in a great position to turbocharge it in the enterprise in the years ahead

Startup Winners in the AI Boom

Dozens of startups, as well as some public companies, are fueling a boom in artificial intelligence that is increasingly automating certain functions of businesses or their products. The Information...

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Rob Toews

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to the moon! 🚀

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Excited to deepen our partnership with @UnlearnAI and to welcome OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to the team!

Biotech AI startup Unlearn adds $15 mln and OpenAI CTO to board

Unlearn.AI, which has built a machine learning platform that creates "digital twin" profiles of patients in clinical trials, has raised $15 million to expand partnerships and accelerate regulatory...

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Rob Toews

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it's not often that you see an AI startup develop an entirely new AI model architecture, purpose-built for its needs. huge congratulations to @charleskfisher and the @UnlearnAI team - one of the most original and imaginative AI companies out there, in any sector!

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Are you tired of same old generative model architectures? Do you long for something new and intriguing? Then we've got you covered ... Introducing Neural Boltzmann Machines! With the powers of DNNs and RBMs combined! 🧵 (w/ paper and code)

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We are thrilled to partner with @RichardSocher and the team on their ridiculously ambitious vision to reimagine the search engine. Onward! 🚀

You.com raises $25M to fuel its AI-powered search engine

You.com, an AI-powered search engine founded by ex-Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, has closed a $25M funding round -- all equity.

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We could not be more excited to partner with George and @HebbiaAI to build the future of search. Keep an eye on this one! 👀

Hebbia raises $30M to launch an AI-powered document search tool | TechCrunch

Hebbia, a startup developing AI-powered search tools, has raised $30 million in a venture funding round as it launches a commercial offering.

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this article has a list....you know you love lists!

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Rob Toews

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Exciting and humbling to be published alongside Niall Ferguson, Nouriel Roubini and so many other distinguished scholars.

Manolis Kellis

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The full #Horizons issue on #AI is worth reading: 1. The AI Opportunity - written by GPT-4😉 2. The AI Threat - by Nouriel Roubini @Nouriel 3. From Shocking to Mundane - John D’Agostino & Manolis Kellis @JohnJDAgostino @ManolisKellis 4. The Aliens Have Landed, and We Created Them

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Huge congratulations to the team at @DominoDataLab ! Domino is all substance and no hype, building one of the most meaningful companies in the burgeoning field of MLOps. Onward!

AI Startup Domino Data Lab Raises $100 Million in New Funding

Artificial intelligence startup Domino Data Lab has raised $100 million in new funding amid increased business interest in tools that help companies build AI applications.

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We could not be more excited to partner with @twelve_labs alongside our friends @IndexVentures . Onward! 🚀

Twelve Labs makes searching inside videos simple and powerful, propelled by $5M seed round |...

With video making up more and more of the media we interact with and create daily, there's also a growing need to track and index that content. What

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Rob Toews

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excellent, thoughtful piece from @molwelch about what is needed to productize and operationalize generative AI at scale. if you're excited about generative AI, read it!

Molly Welch

@molwelch

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lots out there on application layer opportunities in generative AI (and, of course, how crazy good chatGPT is!), but less on what’s unsolved in this new paradigm. new piece on what’s missing in generative AI, where I cover: 👇

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@NikMilanovic be careful, @rabois will roast you if he sees this tweet

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amen

Neal Khosla

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I’m as big of an AI bull as there is and have been for about ten years but holy shit most of the biggest grifters I know have become “AI people” and it absolutely terrifies me.

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A huge win for @UnlearnAI on its mission to transform clinical trials with AI and digital twins. Congratulations!

European Medicines Agency Qualifies Unlearn’s AI-powered Method for Running Smaller, Faster...

Unlearn®, the only artificial intelligence (AI) company developing prognostic digital twins to run smaller, faster clinical trials, today announced th

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Rob Toews

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some thoughts from me about who, beyond Google and Tesla, is worth keeping an eye on in the AV space: