TSFM has been challenging & fun! Led by Sid, we explored tokens today. Neat find: GPT-4o counts "Toronto" as one token! 🌟

Dropped by Frère Du Nord, tees truly made in Canada 🇨🇦

Opening up a few paid spots to the public for TSFM: Tangents (guest lectures). First event: Human Annotations by Claire Cheng on Sept 16 RSVP here: luma.com/gzo4p1o4

so what we've been trying to do with these sessions is, as individuals from our ecosystem are leaving to work on projects in different parts of the world, when they come back, we ask them to share what they've been learning with everyone here. it's still very early, but this

TSFM: Optimizers by Yacine Mahdid on September 25th will take place at cohere Toronto office. Shoutout Cohere (again) for all the support

Great insights from hamza mostafa on building #agents New

vibe co-working New

Attending a TSFM lecture is a great date night activity

Thrilled to welcome Modal as the compute sponsor of Toronto School of Foundation Modelling! We’ll be using Modal Notebooks: GPU-backed Python in the browser that starts in seconds, supports real-time collaboration so this cohort can start experimenting right away. More next week

2.5h of me yapping about GPUs/TPUs and how you can use LOTS of them together, so stoked about this

On November 18 at TSFM: A Historical Approach to Automatic Differentiation by j4orz

Exciting times in Canadian tech. a16z speedrun 🧊 and Y Combinator events in Toronto Studio 535 and New Socratica and nodes like Ascend Calgary @555mtl in Montreal Novus, V2, The Syndicate in Vancouver Lots of energy in the communities. Lots of people

SF is the best place to build a VC startup Toronto is the best place to bootstrap

This Thursday at TSFM: Transformers Part 2 by one of the best engineers I know, Bharat Venkatesh from cohere . Bharat took various parts of the Cohere tech stack from 0 to 1 (sometimes singlehandedly!!) over the course of his 5.5 years at Cohere. So excited to learn from him!!

Trying to raise one last batch of funds for season 1 of Toronto School of Foundation Modelling! We are nearing the end of the first season with many in the cohort already training their own models, discovering scaling laws, building tokenizers etc. I’m planning a few surprises

Hey ya! Resetting my feed—quick intro👋 Now: - tsfm.ca by Sid - all things compute - connect w/ builders Past: - sports analytics startup w/ Kunwar Gill - sw engineer (fintech, e-commerce) Happy to connect, grab coffee, and speak @ builder events! ☕

Also huge shoutout again to Modal for the compute sponsorship! All my side projects run on Modal now, it genuinely feels like magic. This is the last month of TSFM s01 and I have two more sponsorship announcements to make and I’m so excited!!!