Brilliant interview with Samir Kumar from Touring Capital. It’s nice to hear his thoughts on why he invested in CuspAI in our seed round rather than their usual B round investments.
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TL20 Rebalancing: Finding Tech Winners in Market Downturn
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The TL20: Amidst choppy seas This is the largest rebalancing of the TL20 to date. After a gain of 114% in two years, handily beating the benchmarks, the recent downdraft provides ample opportunity to pick new winners in tech. https://
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Meta Announces LLM Evaluation Research Grant Program
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LLM Evaluations are an important area of work — today we're announcing a new LLM Evaluation Research Grant to foster further innovation in this area. Recipients will get $200K in funding to support this work. We're accepting proposals until September 6 https://
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GPT-4o Snapshot: 50% Cheaper Input Tokens Now Available
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GPT-4o snapshot Use the latest GPT-4o snapshot model which is 50% cheaper for input tokens and 33% cheaper for output tokens than the original GPT-4o
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API Pricing Model Charges Full Month Compute
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OK so it doesn't pass on that criteria then. If you have 1 request per minute, you're getting charged for a whole month's compute 🙁
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Noam Shazeer Joins Google DeepMind for Gemini AGI Research
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Thrilled to welcome @NoamShazeer to @GoogleDeepMind (& back to @Google
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Billionaire Tech Founders’ Hidden Influence Through AI Philanthropy
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i don't think it's a secret that a16z is billionaire techie-founder AI-investor $$$! 😀 otoh open philanthropy et al being vehicles for billionaire techie-founder AI-investors is less well understood.
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Answer.AI seeks investment funding for AI venture
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LLMs in Finance: Ask Your Questions for MIT Expert
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Ask us your questions about applying LLMs to financial contexts, including financial advice, fundamental analysis, and risk management. We’ll pick some to feature in an upcoming explainer w/MIT professor Andrew Lo (
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Hugging Face Acquires Startup to Handle BigLlama-3.1-1Q
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Hugging Face had to acquire a startup to handle BigLlama. You know what it means… BigLlama-3.1-1Q