Beyond excited to be backing
@myshell_ai
@ethan_myshell
has been one of my favorite founders since I entered the industry.
Let’s put the power over the AI ecosystem back into the hands of users
We're excited to announce that MyShell has raised a $11M Series Pre-A led by
@dragonfly_xyz
, bringing our total capital raised to $17M.
MyShell is building the AI consumer layer, empowering users to build, share, and own AI agents.
Dragonfly's global presence, paired with their impressive track record made it a no-brainer for me.
At Dragonfly, I'm looking forward to the privilege of leveraging a global platform to work with innovative crypto teams with global aspirations 🌐
(2/3)
To facilitate crosschain research on
@DuneAnalytics
, I created crosschain tables for all EVM L1s & L2s raw tables 🪄
Includes Ethereum, Optimism, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB, Gnosis & Fantom
@intern
has been so clutch for all the communities he’s been a part of,
@cmsholdings
and now the one and only
@monad_xyz
Honestly a master class in building community 🫡
i've had 10+ calls this month with S-tier crypto projects looking to build stronger marketing and community flywheels -- putting some of the suggestions publicly here on twitter
10 rules for crypto marketing & community: a systems approach
1) stop posting ads.
if your main
Days like this is exactly what
@alkimiya_io
is designed for. Service providers / traders /
@babylonlabs_io
stakers who locked-in BTC feerate on Alkimiya are raking in insane
#BTC
denominated profit.
Good response to
@sequoia
"AI's $600B Question" about how it is rational to continue to increase investments where costs necessarily precede revenue
"The prize is theoretically so large, and if a clear winner emerges, their market opportunity so uncapped, you have to keep
Training LLMs can be much cheaper than previously thought.
While companies like
@OpenAI
and
@Meta
use billions of dollars to train theirs, CSAIL &
@myshell_ai
research shows that just 0.1 million USD is sufficient for training LLaMA2-level LLMs.
Introducing the open-source
Awesome. Gotta also really love
@Figure_robot
‘s demonstration and reasoning on why it chose the Apple. A key step has obv been the development of multi modal models.
For further development, training data esp more egocentric data is crucial.
@soona
first shared this idea with
Proud to announce MegaETH's $20M Seed Round
MegaETH is the first Real-Time Blockchain, streaming transactions at 100,000 TPS with millisecond latency
Our mission is to turn cutting-edge ideas into everyday reality with fully onchain, interactive & sophisticated apps
✨Story
Perplexity now has Polymarket when you search for election odds.
By displaying prediction markets, it’s more realtime than any poll. Look how quickly it tracked the Biden/Kamala swap:
Such a time tested playbook in web2, but most crypto founders + investors don’t seem to do it even though all the data is on-chain. Just compare the cohort retention over time against the timing of airdrop expectations. Oh, wait.. you say it started from day one?
Cohort retention is legit one of the most clear indicators of whether your startup is working
Hear about how to improve yours from the product master
@dflieb
The day is here! We’re unfolding the cards!
Avail raises $27m, led by
@foundersfund
and
@dragonfly_xyz
to accelerate the unification of web3!
With this, we’ll build the Avail trinity - a three-phase roadmap aimed at unifying multiple ecosystems in web3.
Consisting:
• Avail
- SN9 is generating $40k/day ownership incentive (to Const), and a single miner is generating 100% of rewards ($85k/day).
- Nous generates $40k/day via SN6, and 4 (+/-) miners share $85k/day rewards.
- On SN8 (Taoshi), 20 miners earn 90% of rewards (share $75k).
- 8/32 SNs =
Totally excited about the creativity this unlocks! At the same time, we’re gonna need more authenticity solutions to combat deepfakes.
@danboneh
has written about this extensively. For anyone working in this area, please get in touch!
#MagicEditor
is getting more magic on
#Pixel9
🪄
🖼️
#AutoFrame
uses generative AI to fill in the blanks or find the perfect crop to reframe your subject
🔮 Reimagine photos entirely just by tapping what part you want to change and typing what you want to see¹
#MadeByGoogle
some news: i am stoked to share that i have joined the investing team
@dragonfly_xyz
based in sg - i'm v excited to work with and invest in the best founders with fresh crypto ideas
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my DMs are open; here's a (very) non-exhaustive list of some stuff that is on my mind
Big major/altcoin discrepancy caused by, among other things, robinhood delisting? That’s $2b of altcoin trading volume wiped out on a say high single digit billions trading volume. Aiy!!!
Today we're changing the way you research crypto.
Introducing Kaito's AI Copilot.
The most powerful search tool in Web3.
Here's how it can 10x your efficiency 🧵
Questions I have on the decentralized scale AI / data-labeling space
1. how to conduct QA in a scalable manner (is sampling + CE it?)
2. More importantly, how to enforce royalties / attribution. Data will mostly likely be taken off-chain
hmu if u wanna discuss
Join us TOMORROW at 4:20 PM PST as
@exolabs_
revolutionize AI accessibility –
Witness Llama-3-405b on consumer hardware! 🚀🚀
*providing the model is released on time.
enjoyed chatting with
@cheryldchan
as always
highlights:
- the merge of training and inference
- why verification is essential for a base level compute protocol
- building things right rather than rushed
- the future of shared human knowledge (embeddings not databases)
Just announced at
@siggraph
, today we’re beginning to roll out AI Studio, a new place for people to create, share and discover AIs — no technical skills required!
AI Studio is built on our Llama 3.1 models, bringing many of the advanced capabilities and flexibility of the new
Learn to train an LLM with distributed data while ensuring privacy using federated learning in a new two-part short course, Intro to Federated Learning and Federated Fine-tuning of LLMs with Private Data, created with
@flwrlabs
and taught by
@daniel_janes
and
@niclane7
.
A core belief at Perplexity is that everyone should have access to relevant and accurate information on the topics that matter to them. To ensure that publishers can benefit as Perplexity grows, today we’re excited to launch our publishers program with our first partners:
@TIME
,
@Eug_Ng
Hyper casual games on TON heating up! Top gaming studios globally coming on. Not just the Asian players, but also EA Riot Ubisoft Activision and the likes.
Now that distribution potential is a known quantity, subpar retention stats can no longer be excused away