Congratulations to the harness.io team for launching our biggest platform update to date! 👏🎊 Today at {unscripted} we unveiled a suite of new products that embed AI into the very core of our platform. We’re excited to see how these tools help engineers transcend routine tasks,

Very grateful for Geoffrey Hinton. A real hero for our field and for Canada.

Wow! What a day for science.

Most llms still struggle with languages beyond English. Today cohere is changing that! Cohere For AI just release a new open weight model called Aya Expanse with sota performance 23 languages! This is a breakthrough for global coverage. Excited to see how you use it! :)

Introducing Command R7B: the smallest, fastest, and final model in our R series of enterprise-focused LLMs! It delivers a powerful combination of state-of-the-art performance in its class and efficiency to lower the cost of building AI applications. cohere.com/blog/command-r…

Our MIT class “6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models” is now available on YouTube! We teach state-of-the-art generative AI algorithms for images, videos, proteins, etc. together with the mathematical tools to understand them. diffusion.csail.mit.edu (1/4)

new sota for multilingual vision :) Aya-Vision-32B huggingface.co/collections/Co…

Market Map: 130+ companies transforming the AI Software Development market! This map contains emerging #startups solving engineering pain points, including codegen. If you would like your startup to be added to the map, please DM me. #engineering #ai #vc

Big news from the Sierra Ventures team: Ashish Kakran joined us as a Partner! Ashish has backed category-defining startups like Cohere, Harness, and Isovalent—and brings deep expertise across AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. More on his journey → sierraventures.com/content/new-pa…

As AI continues to shape our world, its responsible development remains essential. Prime Ministers Carney and Starmer met with @Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez to discuss a new partnership to advance AI systems that boost safety, national security, and innovation in both countries.

SIERRA Partner, Ashish Kakran, joined an insightful panel at the Confidential Computing Summit, hosted by Opaque Systems & the Confidential Computing Consortium. The conversation spanned some of the most urgent challenges & opportunities in enterprise AI and security.

🚀 Venture with Grace: This Week’s Recap (Week 80) This week on Venture with Grace, we explored startup sprints, AI-powered customer support, vertical SaaS growth, and the latest in infrastructure and AI: 🔹 John Zeratsky , GP at Character Capital — on Startup Sprints & Design DNA 🔹

Listen to my conversation with Ashish Kakran Partner of Sierra Ventures on Spotify: bit.ly/3v1R0Tu Apple: bit.ly/4bTCwpD Youtube: bit.ly/3uXthnv #vc #ai #startup

Everything just shook. Big earthquake in Berkeley, CA. #earthquake

Fundraise Announcement! We are proud to announce that we at smallest.ai have raised 8M USD in an oversubscribed seed round led by SIERRA Ventures with participation from 3one4 Capital, Better, Upsparks Capital, Schema Ventures, DeVC, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, peercheque,

Great turnout yesterday at the SF Tech Week event on “Fundraising in the Valley for US-India Founders”. Thanks so much Alex (@Mvpventures), Ashish Kakran (SIERRA Ventures) and Krishna Mehra (Elevation Capital) for rocking the seed panel. And much gratitude to Deepak Prasad

Harness hits $5.5B valuation with $240M raise to automate AI’s ‘after-code’ gap techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/har…

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks. Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in