We did a research deep dive into Meta recently released Llama 3 model family. We find that these models are very strong, sometimes performing on-par with frontier models like GPT-4, Gemini 1.5, and Claude 3, which is an impressive achievement. factorialfunds.com/blog/thoughts-…

Great work from maynie Durk Kingma on Llama3 and what it means the broder AI/LLM landscape.

Excited to be backing Kyle Vogt next startup via factorialfunds Kyle was an incredible leader at Cruise, and I'm excited to see him recreate the same magic at his next startup. Miss the days of coding together on ROS !

Can't wait to see what the xAI team will ship !

incredible work David Ding & the udio team !

Founders have been busy cooking this summer in SF Thank you Anthropic for bringing our founders along with your exciting roadmap and mastering PMF with your boba bar :) Daniela Amodei Mike Krieger @joandthezhus solbier factorialfunds James Kaplan NEA bryan pratte James Brady

Huge thank you to @joandthezhus Jamie Neuwirth & the entire Anthropic startup team

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Continually Ascending

I can’t wait to discuss the latest and greatest in AI and venture with Factorial Fund’s Sol Bier solbier at our upcoming Ideas & Networking Conference in NYC on Thurs Sept 19th.  Sol was an early founding engineer at Cruise as well as an early investor in Perplexity and

Excited to share excerpts from my chat with Sol Bier at our recent NYC Conference. Sol was an early engineer at Cruise & is the founding partner of Factorial Funds, an AI-focused VC fund. The full interview is available here: ragingcapitalventures.com/ai-venture/ A few highlights: 1/4

Thanks for having us Raging Capital Ventures , all the panels at the event were great !

New evals are badly needed for next gen LLMs !

We're excited to introduce Tasks! For the first time, ChatGPT can manage tasks asynchronously on your behalf—whether it's a one-time request or an ongoing routine. Here are my favorite use cases: 1/ ChatGPT checks stock price every morning!

When your own portfolio company turns the VC industry into a commodity. How the tables have turned. Great job Perplexity team !

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Congrats on the launch nico & team. Time to get your team more GPUs 🫡

Congrats Aravind Srinivas & the entire Perplexity team on the Comet launch. This level of context with LLMs feels the iPhone moment for AI all over again 🚀

Need this printed out :)