FYI Anthropic devs, we've increased the tokens per day (TPD) limit for Haiku across the tiers:

Tier 1: 1M -> 5M
Tier 2: 2.5M -> 25M
Tier 3: 5M -> 50M
Tier 4: 10M -> 100M

Time to go build something this weekend🫡

Claude v3's scores on our evals, comprising 'personal assistant' kind of agentic tasks

Two surprises:
1. First time we see a model beat GPT-4
2. The lesser Claude Sonnet is very very close to GPT-4, at 1/3rd the price

Super impressed overall, congrats to the Anthropic team

23 community builders & movers-and-shakers of the SF tech ecosystem you should know 👀

Jonathan Chang
Jason Mok
Vivien Ho
Lindsay McCallum Rémy
michael raspuzzi
Kera DeMars
Amber Illig
Suffiyan Malik
Sachin Agarwal
Dan S. Johnson
Jen Yip
Eric Bahn 💛
Josh Constine 📶🔥
Jo Zhu 🍊

Why founders love PearX:

- small co-hort
- $250k- $2M investment
- 1:1 support
- Pear Studio in SF and Menlo Park
- In-House Recruiting
- Camp Pear in Santa Cruz Mountains
- Community of founders
- Fundraising support
- Mentor network
- Speakers Series
- Demo day

Our first application deadline for The Retreat by FFC is TOMORROW, November 15th. Do you know of an amazing female founder (pre-seed to later stage)? If so, please share this application link with them. theretreat24.pear.vc

“Freedom is not being silenced or protected.”

“There is more than one kind of freedom. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.” - Aunt Lydia, Handmaids Tale.

This feels eerily cautionary - replace “Gilead” with “Responsible AI” and “women” with “AI”:

Under

This is a great website, and documents via news clippings the alarm over many beneficial innovations, such as electricity, bicycles, elevators, radio, etc: pessimistsarchive.org

After the current wave of alarm over AI human extinction dies down, I wonder if statements about

In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards, often 50 or more at a time. Most of them were comatose and dying from diabetic ketoacidosis.

These children were essentially in their death beds, awaiting what was at

Excited to host Pear Fellows and Pear Garage members today! Pear VC

I moved to Palo Alto to be a part of Pear VC accelerator, which was one the most transformative experiences as an entrepreneur. So exited to see this expansion, highly recommended for all founders.

We are excited to announce Pear SF Office: a 30,000 sq/ft state of the art office with 240 desks and 20 conference rooms, building a community for tech builders and entrepreneurs. Pear VC

The gun control lobby can bring statistics to bear and say “Perhaps it is worth giving up some liberty in an attempt to limit these manifest harms.” You can disagree, but it is a reality based argument. In contrast, the AI control lobby holds up imaginary harms.

We're so excited to announce our very first FFC (Female Founder Circle) Retreat in Palm Springs on Feb 29 to March 1, 2024. 🌴

We're looking for nominations of founders from seed to series B and beyond to attend theretreat24.pear.vc. If any amazing female founders come to

Congrats to the 15 incredible startups that presented today at PearX demo day!

Behind the scenes look of our PearX S23 cohort at Demo Day. What a group!