Today, we’re thrilled to announce several important milestones at Vanta, including serving over 7,000 customers and earning $100mm ARR in <5 years.

Vanta’s ability to help our customers streamline security programs and automate compliance has never been stronger. 🧵

Big day here at Lattice. I am so excited to announce our newest product, Lattice HRIS!

lattice.com/blog/introduci…

Great pod from Shomik Ghosh, Alex Mackenzie & Ian Livingstone where they cover a wide surface area of today’s most interesting technologies - Javascript Runtimes (Deno, Bun), Edge Computing, Observability, AI (Agents, WebGPU).

A must-listen!

open.spotify.com/episode/7xskFT…

I wrote a (lengthy!) primer on post-Transformer/Attention architectures and mechanisms - primarily focused on Hyena Hierarchy:

whynowtech.substack.com

Thanks to Ruth Sheridan , Philip Clark, Akash Bajwa, Sivesh Sukumar, Chase Roberts & Mustafa Neemuchwala for reading drafts!

🚀 Exciting News! Forbes has just recognized Kandji as one of the Next Billion-Dollar Startups of 2023. This honor is a testament to the dedication & hard work of the entire Kandji team and the continued support of our customers and partners: forbes.com/sites/amyfeldm…

Frontline is delighted to be recognised as one of the top Seed investors in Europe! 🌱

Over 50% of the Frontline portfolio companies that raised a Seed round in 2016-18 went on to raise a Series A –  more than 2x the average graduation rate 👇

dealroom.co/uploaded/2023/…

'Ukraine has been the second most popular location for US companies setting up an engineering team in Europe.'

tech.eu/2023/06/29/how…

Ease of entry to European markets broken down by Frontline Ventures. frontline.vc/wp-content/upl…

Clearly, OpenAI agrees, announcing they’re opening an office in London: bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

At Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, we believe seizing the moment on AI and building close links with frontier expertise is a massive opportunity for the UK government.

Interesting report by Frontline Ventures about how US software companies win (and lose) in Europe.

Link to the report: frontline.vc/wp-content/upl…

Last week, at Frontline Ventures, we released our 2023 European Expansion Report 🌍

In case you missed it, here are the 5 key data points you likely didn’t know about European expansion, from an analysis of 200+ US B2B software startups 👇

arcxhived.substack.com/p/european-exp…

Today we’re announcing plans for . to join forces with Databricks! We are excited at the possibilities for this deal including serving the growing number of enterprises interested in LLMs and diffusion models.

‘Hallucination is what we call it when we don’t like it, creativity is what we call it when we do’ - Ah the dichotomy of LLMs

youtube.com/watch?v=-hxeDj…

Had a blast teaming up with Katie Evans and the Threshold Ventures crew this week to bring together friends from both sides of the Atlantic 🤝

Frontline Ventures

Great summary of the current state of LLM eval - ⁦David Hershey⁩ 👏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/generallyi…

MPT is here! Check out our shiny new LLMs, open-source w/commercial license. The base MPT-7B model is 7B params trained on 1T tokens and reaches LLaMA-7B quality. We also created Instruct (commercial), Chat, and (my favorite) StoryWriter-65k+ variants. 🧵 mosaicml.com/blog/mpt-7b

Today we're announcing the availability of our inference API and inference service! We've extended our leading efficiency gains to serve a curated list of open-source models (soon to include our own!) via API. This allows us to move at the pace of the community!

Enterprise…

I can’t believe the turnout for the Weights & Biases meetup in London

What does it take to build your own LLM? Replit details the underlying tech stack that fuels their models. Great to see . mentioned alongside Hugging Face & Databricks - a powerful combo for AI model training.

blog.replit.com/llm-training

Finding myself increasingly turning to Perplexity as my default search engine. Suddenly traditional search feels so archaic.