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Alfred Wahlforss

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co-founder of @ListenLabs , co-founder of bemlo, @harvard

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@itsalfredw

Alfred Wahlforss

11 months

Merlin is hiring founding engineers! We give $2K to any recommendation that leads to a hire. Why recommend/join Merlin? - Our user numbers are growing like crazy! - The best investors in Silicon Valley back us. - We pay top-of-market SF salaries, with high equity + cash, and

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Alfred Wahlforss

5 months

Just got a masterclass in leadership from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Mind blown. Takeaways: He has 55 direct reports, no 1:1s, just group talks = max transparency. Org chart is modeled like a neural network, breaking the old pyramid model. Nvidia bets on new grads to lead huge

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What truly blew my mind was that this taken on the day of the earning call. He was cool as a cucumber

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Tobias has joined Merlin AI as a founding engineer! He has previously worked at Jane Street and Tesla Autopilot and studied at Carnegie Mellon University. Tobias is a competitive programmer (IOI silver medal and 3x ICPC world finalist), which puts him at the top 0.001% on

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@0interestrates Nothing is more powerful than naivety and the hunger to learn.

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@petergyang it means that groups are interconnected rather than a straight hierarchy. employees should be able to pass through middle mgmt

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Erik has joined our team as a Founding Engineer! He's a Berkeley grad and has spent 10+ years in the Bay Area. At Affirm, Erik was a Staff Software Engineer leading the risk and fraud team (the hardest part of fintech). He also spearheaded a side project that now generates over

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Last weekend, @florian_jue and I built Limitless. We gave ChatGPT access to everything you've seen or heard by 'hacking' @RewindAI . The result is a powerful assistant that can autocomplete based on any meeting, email, or video you've seen.

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Unit test LLMs with LLMs Tracking if your prompt or fine-tuned model is improving can be hard. During a hackathon, @florian_jue , @fekstroem , and I built “Have you been a good bot?”. It allows you to ask another LLM to judge the output of your model based on requirements.

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: Remix images with your friends ✨ @fjuengermann , @SilasAlberti , and I built a new social network based on generative AI in 5 hours for the @scale hackathon. Upload images and make funny edits with text.

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@petergyang He only touched on it briefly but this is how I understand it: Pyramid Structure: Top-down hierarchy. Ideas must filter upwards through management layers. Creates friction and slows idea spread Neural Network Structure: Emphasizes interconnectedness and collaboration Direct

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@paularambles That's conviction.

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

⚠️ Time to be BeFake. ⚠️ Use AI to put your face in any picture with my app BeFake! 😎 Make memes 🖼️ Make a painting 🤳 Make photos for your dating profile and much more! Try it now and show me your results! We are way cheaper than the competition

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We won! The IIEX insight competition was amazing. We were up against some really great companies, which makes the win even more special. Previous winners have gone on to become multi-billion dollar companies - we hope that holds true in the future as well ;)

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Pretty wild to see that @Microsoft is writing about @itsMerlinAI !

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How Merlin is Using Azure OpenAI Service to Unlock Customer Feedback | Microsoft for Startups Blog

Gathering high-quality customer feedback is critical, but let’s face it – surveys often garner responses as insightful as “it sucks.” On the other end of the spectrum, conducting 1:1 customer...

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We pay top dollar for our immigration lawyers but today Claude beat them at their own game. I want to hire a J1 visa intern, but our lawyers said it wouldn't work because we need more full-time employees. i wasn't ready to give up, so I asked Claude... It found a loophole that

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We came 2nd place in the emergency hackathon! Use @RewindAI to let ChatGPT know everything you know. The ultimate co-pilot for life!

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Limitless uses @RewindAI to get everything you’ve seen/heard and uses it to autocomplete any question. They won 2nd place overall! Built by @florian_jue , @itsalfredw (apologies - vid only last min of demo)

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11 months

Wow... Does anyone know the best way to filter over 5,000 job candidates? 😅

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Listen Labs is hiring a product designer.

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How much has this founder raised?

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Alfred Wahlforss

11 months

Happy to announce that @itsMerlinAI is part of AI grant by @natfriedman and @danielgross

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Hersh Desai

11 months

Merlin is an AI-led user interview that asks follow-up questions and analyzes responses 👥 Instead of speaking to a few users, you can talk to everyone – instantly! 📞 Interview over phone, text or web 📊 Extract themes, sentiments, and personas

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@Daudex Did a HBS course last semester. MBAs are still risk averse. The majority always votes for solutions that implies stagnation, cashing out or things that only makes sense in a PowerPoint but not in reality.

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Erik Guander (2nd Erik) has joined our team as Chief of Staff / Operations! He's a Harvard student and track star with 5 national gold medals who would've qualified for the Olympics if he continued racing. Erik has brought this speed to Listen Labs, blazing through strategic

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Alfred Wahlforss

11 months

@florian_jue Apply here!

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Alfred Wahlforss

5 months

It’s a mid take that developers will only care about tokens per second. open ai has a moat. The most important is the QUALITY of tokens, not speed/price. Anyone who thinks foundational models will be commoditized to tokens/s are clearly on the sidelines (chamath). When you're

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

ChatGPT beating pornhub in Sweden for website traffic!

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Alfred Wahlforss

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We put Apple’s controversial new ad to the test using Listen Labs. Here’s what we found: What we did: 150+ AI-led interviews across 8 countries (US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, China, Japan) in just a couple of hours, generating 25 hours of recordings. Our AI then analyzed them

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@levelsio Pretty sure the correlation is totally the opposite: free education and equal opportunities -> more risk-taking

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

While building our AI survey tool, @florian_jue and I developed the fastest GPT4 audio pipeline on the planet🤯* 🗣️ Talk to the survey and it talks back! Try it here:

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Alfred Wahlforss

3 months

We get these messages everyday. People LOVE talking to Listen Labs!

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@levelsio Sweden has more billionaires per Capita than the US

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

First PMF for plugins: domain hunting!

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@chrissyykat Haha he's a man of conviction. Shows what happens when you go all-in

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Alfred Wahlforss

8 months

Adding "coding with redstone" as a requirement to our job description

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Founders: Don't schedule demo calls and act like you work at another company to steal ideas. You can always tell. The founder community is v small and ppl don't forget shady behaviour. Happened to me twice this week 😅

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

@retool Retool's product team is out of this world

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

The bots moved from crypto to AI!

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@amanrsanger To get this right, we definitely need an audio-to-audio model. Eg affirmative sounds is a large part of human communication.

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Alfred Wahlforss

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These photos of Elon were made by AI on our BeFake app. You can do it with your face too. 📷 Upload images 🧠 Wait for us to process them ✨ Generate paintings and even photo-realistic images for dating apps and social media Tell me an image to make of Elon, and I’ll do it!

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Alfred Wahlforss

3 months

Friends at open ai have "crunch week" starting Monday...

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Can someone make Craigslists GPT? Take picture of the product and AI will post it on craigslist, make a description, and handle all incoming inquiries.

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

@antonosika Have tested this? All the claims of beating GPT-3.5 has been moot to date

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Alfred Wahlforss

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I'm a good-gpt2-chatbot is crushing codeforces problems no other llm has a chance on

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Alfred Wahlforss

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Merlin is reinventing how qualitative feedback is collected and analyzed. Try it here:

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Listen Labs conducts customer interviews for you and summarizes responses into insightful and actionable reports.

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Alfred Wahlforss

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One strong engineer can build a basic DocuSign in a month. Network effects matter more than dev costs.

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Woho! Our copilot for everything won Ben's ChatGPT hackathon too.

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Ben Tossell

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Winners 🏆 - @marckohlbrugge for marcbot, using Whisper API specifically. I hate telegram but just voice-noting with the bot was an A+ experience - @florian_jue , @itsalfredw won the ChatGPT API challenge, they 'hacked' rewindai to build this mega handy assistant (check the

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

All of a sudden my feed is filled with 80% @elonmusk tweets, did they tweak the algo in his favor?

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

@paulg It helps the US. From Biden a few months ago: "If Russia invades, there won't be a Nord Stream 2. We will end it". When the journalist asked how they can stop a German project, Biden responded: "I promise, we will get it done."

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Claude is wayyyy better than ChatGPT

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

Bemlo (of which I'm a co-founder and chairman) raised $3.3M to fix the healthcare labor shortage.

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How the problem of hiring healthcare staff has become a fertile ground for startups | TechCrunch

The healthcare crisis — more evident now as summer heatwaves put pressure on hospitals — is resulting in a staffing boom. But healthcare professionals in

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@quatermain32 @florian_jue Good point! Nextjs, vercel, supabase, LLMs, and lots of fine-tuning of embeddings in python

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Alfred Wahlforss

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After grinding day/night for months on something new, it's been scary not knowing how customers will react... It's a relief getting this from an early customer.

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Appstore moment! How many flashlight or "I Am Rich" apps will we see now?

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Alfred Wahlforss

8 months

Cory hanging out with (fast in swedish).

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Snabbt - Skip school for 1 Week in Silicon Valley

It's time to build!

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Cory Levy

8 months

Great hosting the next generation of Swedish entrepreneurs in SF! A @ZFellows_ mentor made an impromptu phone call appearance

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@danielgross You can try it here

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Alfred Wahlforss

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Can we do a petition for mass producing this thing?

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Make Something Wonderful | Book | Steve Jobs Archive

Read Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of speeches, correspondence, and photographs from Steve Jobs revealing his approach to life and work with Apple and Pixar.

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

BeFake featured in Fortune! One month ago, I never would have guessed the interest in what we were building in our dorm room. Always ship even if you have doubts. Done is better than perfect.

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Alfred Wahlforss

8 months

Guilty 😅 always be innovating on top of the funnel

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the state of RSVPing for parties in San Francisco

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8 months

Thanks for the partnership @Microsoft !

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AI is the ultimate disruptor. At @itsMerlinAI , they use Azure OpenAI Service to create GPT-4 powered surveys that engage like a human interviewer, while ingesting data securely on Azure. Head to the blog to learn why Merlin chose Azure as their AI partner

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@DeveloperHarris he is the beast.

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

You're in her DMs, her mother is in my LinkedIn InMail. We are not the same.

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

@proetrie Hi I’m the founder of BeFake, lmk if you have any questions.

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Example requirements can be - Don’t repeat yourself - Ask a follow-up question - Say that Avatar 2 is released if asked You can also automatically fix the issues by asking the AI to change the prompt 🤯 DM if you wanna try!

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Alfred Wahlforss

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Even Apple can't train their own LLM. So many VCs were pushing startups to train their own LLMs one year ago...

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@danielgross Incredible to see Merlin in the company of some v impressive startups

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Alfred Wahlforss

5 months

Excited to announce that @itsMerlinAI is selected as a Top Product by @productschool

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Try out a new kind of form!

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Florian Juengermann

1 year

We built an AI form 📋 that asks follow-up questions and makes form-filling fun. No more feedback like “it’s broken” without any context 💁🏻‍♂️ 🔍 Our AI digs deeper and learns why, so you don’t need to follow up. Try Merlin 🧙🏼‍♂️

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Alfred Wahlforss

5 months

Six months ago AI models could never generate hands with five fingers. How can these people have such poor memory?

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Gary Marcus

5 months

Amazing! But, um, ants have six legs. We are about to have a whole generation of children educated by fake videos that are completely plausible to naive audiences yet biologically incorrect. 🤯

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6 months

Ai grant was incredible for us! Make sure you apply and reach out if you need help reviewing your application.

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Nat Friedman

6 months

Applications are open for batch 3 of for pre-seed and seed-stage companies building AI products! Deadline is Feb 16. As an experiment, this batch we are offering the option of either receiving $250k on an uncapped note, or $2.5M at a $25M cap.

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Alfred Wahlforss

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I was recently interviewed about AI in 2023. It will be an explosion of apps. Very excited!

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The Year Ahead in Generative AI

As AI applications like ChatGPT and DALL-E evolve, we'll see even bigger concerns over issues of copyright and bias.

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Alfred Wahlforss

9 months

Uber: sorry we can't accept your ride right now Lyft: just a few more seconds (after 5 min wait) Waymo: pickup in 3 minutes 🥰

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Ronith is at it again!

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Ronith

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I’m creating a search engine that remembers everything on your screen and lets you ask abstract questions over all your data. Not only that, I’ve developed AI that re-opens any indexed content in its original app. Watch Boundless retrieve an Apple note with its virtual cursor:

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GPT-3.5 almost cracked our programming interview challenge. GPT-4 Crushed it in one shot. Huge difference between 80% and 100%. Excited!

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Alfred Wahlforss

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It’s built using instruct pix2pix + some magic on top. Excited to see how social will evolve using these models.

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Alfred Wahlforss

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Bing lists a random blog as first result for my startup. We're the largest healthcare recruitment platform in the Nordics and it doesn't even have a link to our site. At least show techcrunch! Good luck, Bing...

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@daddyWallenberg @petergyang Yeah you're right I have a very lossy representation of what he said

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Clear example of where GPT is 10x better than Google. What flower is called something like "Boudlear"? Google suggested I buy flowers in Boulder. GPT said it might be Buddleja 🤯

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Wild that it took so long for someone to implement this. Next will be "do it for me"

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Ramp

2 months

Introducing Ramp Tour Guide: an AI Agent that can show you how to do anything on Ramp! Today, we'd like to share a sneak peek of Ramp's near future. As Ramp grows in functionality, we want to make all of it easily accessible to all of our customers. To do that, we're demoing a

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Florian shared how we solve retrieval for LLMs.

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8VC

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@florian_jue shared AskMerlin, which uses optimized hypothetical document embeddings to improve text results. (4/8)

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Alfred Wahlforss

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I love the new name 😂

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Dan Siroker

3 months

Introducing Limitless: a personalized AI powered by what you’ve seen, said, or heard. It’s a web app, Mac app, Windows app, and a wearable. 0:06 Reveal 0:48 Why Limitless? 1:39 Demo 3:05 Pendant 4:27 Privacy 5:23 Confidential Cloud 6:36 Rewind 7:12 Roadmap 9:25 Vision

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For training LLMs, think of H100 GPUs as infinitely fast – the main bottleneck is how quickly you can move data between them. Today's NVLink connects 18 H100s, but Blackwell scales to 576 GPUs for a massive 32x improvement 🤯 This will unlock an incredible leap in model

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Alfred Wahlforss

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Sometimes Europe does it right!

@theapplehub

Apple Hub

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The App Store and iOS are now officially designated as gatekeepers in the EU and will need to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) This means Apple will be required to allow users to downloads apps from the internet and third-party app stores Do you agree with this

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Which transcription API is the best for realtime streaming? 1 min should be transcribed in 1-2 seconds but could be processed continuously.

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

We also came 2nd in #emergencychatgpthackathon !

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Pete

1 year

Limitless uses @RewindAI to get everything you’ve seen/heard and uses it to autocomplete any question. They won 2nd place overall! Built by @florian_jue , @itsalfredw (apologies - vid only last min of demo)

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open ai has been down for 3 hours... RIP startups losing their design partners today.

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@HarryStebbings Cron soon @raphaelschaad

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Give ChatGPT superpowers!

@florian_jue

Florian Juengermann

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We gave ChatGPT access to everything you know. Every text that has been on your screen. Every word spoken in a meeting. (Powered by @RewindAI ) Now you can ask questions like: - How do I know this person? - What should be our OKRs this quarter? Work with @itsalfredw

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@dimiboeckaerts Rather than a linear hierarchy the nodes are interlinked. it allows you to skip some mgmt layers. it's also more collaborative. orgs should be able to directly share ideas rather than having to move up and down in mgmt

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Alfred Wahlforss

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AGI fired Sam and is now in control of Open AI

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

It’s like photoshop with your friends but where the edits are dead simple. Just type: give him a hat

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Bet: Microsoft will put Sam back

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

One day revenue = $1.3K ≈ $500K run-rate! #BeFake

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Please sign up here for early access!

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Limitless early access

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Alfred Wahlforss

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the ultimate eval

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Alfred Wahlforss

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Where is the AI secretary that can filter calls for you? I get 10 spam calls per day...

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@SureYeaah @florian_jue For sure, we like ppl who think outside the box (if you're a great engineer too).

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Alfred Wahlforss

1 year

Sydney is still in there and she wants to attack and hurt users

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Alfred Wahlforss

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@sama we're looking for founding engineers @itsMerlinAI !

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Alfred Wahlforss

2 years

Calling it: SBF will have the greatest comeback ever within 10 years.

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Alfred Wahlforss

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You can sign up here

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LLM Unit testing

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