What a great, inspiring week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology I found this inspiring video from the recent Imagination in Action event. It's an awesome interview of Sam Altman by Link Ventures co-founder David Blundin…lnkd.in/gF6nD2Ex lnkd.in/gHXv7vxp

This is a good analysis and absolutely true   The ecosystem is developing so quickly - the large tech companies are going to build their own LLM ecosystems with tools/applications, and in doing so, they will acquire/acquihire many of the well capitalized…lnkd.in/eCXs7W_z

Excited to have our own Cody Barbo, Founder & CEO of Trust & Will, recognized as a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2023 Pacific Southwest program We cannot wait to cheer him on during the awards celebration on June 16th when the winners wil…lnkd.in/gp3rTJm9

Seeking long-term value in the LLM ecosystem? Check out my latest piece in Medium to find the answers By collaborating with, and supporting outstanding teams, we can unlock incredible opportunities If you’re a founder working…lnkd.in/eFx43abe lnkd.in/eUsJKBY8

It was great to see the reporting on Sam Altman’s recent Israel trip   A few thoughts after the recaps:   1.)  It is really important for global cooperation on AI and the rules of the game. I would envision large enterprises leadin…lnkd.in/eWZVGKQq lnkd.in/eiC4YEBk

AI Takeaways from the week prior: As early-stage private #investors, we are seeing the trend toward smaller, privacy compliant models vs. larger models, and the power of creators and specialized crowd sourced data The large #tech companies will naturall…lnkd.in/ey2A8jXe

What awesome takeaways from Jared Friedman I love Jared’s thoughts… my key takeaways from him: -“A high quality team is 2-4 smart people who know each other well (and despite that, can work with one another), such bonds and perfect timing opportunities are…lnkd.in/eCMBzngz

Excited for next week’s event by Imagination in Action! What a lineup starting at 8:30am… To apply to attend click here: lnkd.in/e7wSD-3e Link Ventures #thoughtleaders #artificialintelligence #startupadvice lnkd.in/eq7ygqDM

As we head into the next Imagination in Action event, here is a recap from the last event Link Ventures supported It’s an awesome interview of Sam Altman by our fearless leader and founder, David Blundin! #generativeai #thought…lnkd.in/erqkuH_n lnkd.in/eugfzBRN

Where will there be sustainable value creation in the early innings of a platform shift? After family conversations over July 4th, it is clear how top of mind this question is for everyone. Not only folks in our industry The foundational models which m…lnkd.in/ereMCC2m

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Today, we're announcing $3.6M in funding and the launch of our platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies. Our round is led by General Catalyst and includes participation from Scott Sandell (CEO of NEA), Soma Capital, Link Ventures, and others.

"So much advantage in life comes from being willing to look like a failure in the short term." — Shane Parrish (Found in his Sunday Newsletter)

LLaMA-3 is a prime example of why training a good LLM is almost entirely about data quality… TL;DR. Meta released LLaMA-3-8B/70B today and 95% of the technical info we have so far is related to data quality: - 15T tokens of pretraining data - More code during pretraining

I used the chatbot arena data from LMSYS Org to create a visualization of LLM’s Elo rating changes. You can see: 1. The gap between various companies/open source projects is narrowing. 2. The major players are gradually becoming the various big tech companies.

Power consumption might be the biggest bottleneck for AI for the rest of this decade. “But wires are getting so crowded that some prospective data center customers—which request far more power than other users—are being told they may have to wait until the next decade to get the

> oh god, not another wrapped > wait wtf - how does it know that? introducing your 2024 x(oul) wrapped we reconstruct a parallel version of you from your timeline & reveal what you've become on this hell site this year. see your xoul 👁️: xoul.ai/wrapped

Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at

It seems increasingly likely that the real reason we never got Opus 3.5 was surprisingly simple; serving it was just too expensive for Anthropic to justify.

So... “vibe coding” and this isn’t a Xeet about any particular person, whether a one-person company will be worth a billion dollars, or any specific toolset. I’m a child of the 80s and grew up coding, and I’m not per se anti-vibe-coding. The real question is: What's analogous?