@KateClarkTweets
That’s why women must also START new VC firms. I founded DeepAngels focused on
#AI
Seed investing. We use data in our own sourcing and diligence. Result: Unbiased 50/50 distribution of male and female founders
@rrhoover
Some do it because they want to be a VC and can’t actually get a job at a VC firm. Some want all the Carry. However, Some of us are doing it because the nature of VC is changing and a lot of existing VC firms don’t get it ... we want to be on the right side of the disruption!
@joshk
@firstround
@nshalek
@Yale
Thanks for this! I just left Khosla and am raising my first fund on my own. Tough timing but I am determined. Can we chat?
@KateClarkTweets
Yes! I started Deep Ventures on exactly this thesis. We are focused on founders using AI to transform and disrupt big industries. I have a running list of great up and coming AI founders here
Amidst all the AI hype, it was my honor to host an evening with Quoc Le, a true AI pioneer. Quoc grew up in Vietnam and didn’t have electricity till he was 9. Now he is at the forefront of creating AGI
@quocleix
@vkhosla
@khoslaventures
Founders I’ve met recently don’t have a pitch deck as it’s a “waste of time”. They miss the point that a pitch forces you to focus and to articulate concisely what you believe, why, and what therefore you are building. This is actually more critical for the founder than the VC
Proud of the team and to have led the Seed round
@Galileo_AI
They are one of the truly new LLM-native startups out there with a big vision to completely rethink an entire industry!
#GenAI
: Hype or Reality? AI had a ‘wow’ moment” with DALL-E and then ChatGPT, but the underlying AI paradigm shift is much more; as I told
@shiringhaffary
I think this is absolutely on the same order of magnitude as the creation of the internet itself.
Exactly why I invested over a year ago …we need to move beyond core AI capabilities and tech and start building magical, useful and highly usable products that will expand TAMs not just eat into incumbents. Congrats to the team for accomplishing the first big step in a big
Everyone asks about the secret behind Galileo's AI tech.
Truth is - this tech couldn't exist without the intricate collaboration between AI and design, alongside significant R&D investment.
@arnaudai
reveals the behind-the-scenes with
@cerebral_valley
of our AI development. 👇
Meet Galileo 1.0: The game-changing prompt-to-UI platform now open to all.
Our mission is to supercharge the creative process of designers and builders, making design easy, fast and magical.
Bring your idea, let AI do the heavy lifting.
Start today:
ChatGPT took 2 months to reach 100M global monthly active users (MAUs), making it the fastest-ever to that milestone ahead of TikTok (9 months), Instagram (30 months) and Pinterest (41 months).. wow!
Very proud to have invested in
@firefliesai
who use
#AI
to solve a tactical problem - transcribe/search meetings - while also extracting insights from one of the largest untapped, existing sources of data in a company - voice conversations
When I say I invest in companies using
#AI
to upend industries, many roll their eyes as AI is such a buzzword. A few more examples here of the true breakthroughs happening that make me a true believer
@jeremyakahn
@FortuneMagazine
Congrats
@SVenkatachalam
on the launch of her $50M AI Fund 🚀
Axiom will be making $100K to $1M investments at the seed and pre-seed stages.
Excited to continue working with Sandhya as she backs the next wave of breakout AI startups.
Now, while RLHF seems to be a very popular way for finetune the latest LLMs, it's of course not the only promising solution moving forward.
In the recent "The Wisdom of Hindsight makes Language Models Better Instruction Followers"(), researchers propose a
Today 6 years ago, "Attention is All You Need" went on Arxiv! Happy birthday Transformer! 🎂
Fun facts:
- Transformer did not invent attention, but pushed it to the extreme. The first attention paper was published 3 years prior (2014) and had an unassuming title: "Neural Machine
I had a long call with
@vkhosla
yesterday. We talked about investing, tech companies and technology in general.
He is simply the best venture capitalist of our generation.
The breadth of his intellect, curiosity and success is mindboggling...someone should be documenting it.
Some VCs are notably absent and not bridging their portfolio companies right now.
@vkhosla
took out a PERSONAL line of credit to bridge at borrowing cost to his.
Think really hard about who you take money from.
And if you’re not stepping up as a VC right now, be better.
@dscheinm
@garrytan
Totally agree … I’m still told that I have the wrong background by other GPs… the same ones who told me in 2018 that AI was going nowhere (leading me to start my own fund focused on AI)
Here is a conversation between myself and
@GroqInc
founder
@JonathanRoss321
at the RAISE AI Conference last week in Paris.
Some very good tidbits in here - especially for all the Nvidia bulls.
Change is slow...then all at once.
19 more reasons VCs have to be highly differentiated, think for themselves and take appropriate risk. The public market alternatives which have lower risk and 100% liquidity are damn good...
@danielgross
Amazing. I've been asking people why AI can't just solve the API integration problem by reading API docs like a dev would ... all said impossible ... apparently not!
#snowflakeipo
is a bet on companies using
#AI
for everything
-can run high compute AI more efficiently
-can store & analyze data as separate processes (& can charge separately vs AWS)
Proud to be a new Advisor to both Berekely Skydeck and the MET program. These young entrepreneurs are amazing and using
#AI
to really change the world
@SkyDeck_Cal
Stop by my office hours!
Yesterday's GPT-4 launch was **crazy** 🔥
After discussing w/ colleagues and taking some time to collect my thoughts,
Here are the top 3 things GPT-4 enables that were previously impossible or extremely difficult to achieve – including examples 👇
New visual-language models that can generate images given a caption demonstrate a promising new direction for achieving more generalizable
#AI
@techreview
I love technology and have been in Silicon Valley 20yrs. But I have only been truly wowed while doing a demo 4 times. Today was the 4th.. demo-ing Apple’s Vision Pro.
3. AI is here to stay 🤖
Top three fastest-growing card vendors:
@Midjourney
- spending up 151% from Q1
@FirefliesAI
- spending up 67% from Q1
@OpenAI
- spending up 58% from Q1
@Samirkaji
Would you be willing to connect me to some of those Family Offices? I am raising an AI-focused early stage fund. Was most recently a GP at Social Capital and lead for AI investing
@levie
Yes but my sigh of relief is brief; the real problem is that 49% of Americans did not vote for the new President. How do we fix the great divide?
Ahead of AI
#5
: RevAIval of Ideas is out!
A particularly exciting one since a lot has happened this month!
This issue covers
• Self-supervised learning for CNNs
• Benefits of pretraining LLMs from scratch
• Open source highlights
👉
Happy Monday!
After years of watching
#AI
Influencers lists with the same big names, I'm highlighting the unsung heroes of AI: the founders who are applying technical developments in transformative ways.
Too much focus is on general purpose AI agents.
Building lightweight AGI is an *extremely* difficult task.
Focus on building a powerful agent in a more narrow domain.
Travel agents, calendar assistants, data analysts - there is *massive* opportunity in domain specific agents.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities — and social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to billions of people...
Some folks have asked what I meant when I said that
@firefliesai
is "re-envisioning their market in the light of LLMs..." i.e. why isn’t this just another GenAI weekend hack.
I’ll explain:
Announcing a major update to Perplexity Ask: the world’s first conversational search engine! Now, you can read answers with up-to-date sources and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. In other words, you can chat with your search engine!
Try it out at
8/I bet on
@krishramineni
&
@sudotong
over 4 yrs ago w/personal $, and I hope I helped them Figure some of this out. If you have a 100x idea with LLMs, I’d be delighted to try and help you make it a reality
IMAGEBIND: One Embedding Space To Bind Them All.
Learns a joint embedding across six different modalities - images, text, audio, depth, thermal, and IMU data.
An open source project by Meta-FAIR.
Paper:
Demo:
Code: