Brian Zhan
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Investing in early stage AI @CRV. Seed/A: @Reflection_AI, @SkildAI, @LeptonAI, @DynaRobotics, @LanceDB, @VoyageAI (acq MongoDB), @SDFLabs (acq dbt)
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03-04-2016 16:14:37
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Excited to back Ricursive Intelligence, a new frontier lab from Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini building AIs that design their own chips. Moving from AlphaChip to four TPU generations to full-stack silicon co-evolution of models and hardware. Honored to be along for the ride.
The conversation between Deepak Pathak and Stephanie Zhan at the Fortune conference is one of the clearest deep dives I’ve seen on the frontier of embodied AI, and on the underlying principles that have quietly enabled Skild’s approach to scale: - Robots as continuous, self-supervised
Most agentic AI work today is trying to repair models after the fact. With better prompts, more tools, smarter post-training. Aakanksha Chowdhery's point here is sharper: the ceiling is pre-training itself. Next-token prediction is a great local objective, but it breaks down when the
Science is too slow. Edison Scientific, Inc is the FutureHouse spinout led by Sam Rodriques and Andrew White 🐦⬛ tackling this directly by integrating AI scientists into the full stack of research, from early discovery all the way to clinical trials. This is an attempt to re-architect how