“Data should act like equity in a model.” @withvana is launching its testnet. People are spinning up dataDAOs for your existing data from Reddit, X, LinkedIn, etc… I’m particularly excited to see dataDAOs for net new data to help train models and knock down the data wall.
INVESTMENT
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AI Company Raises €600M Series B Funding for Global Expansion
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We are announcing €600M in Series B funding for our first anniversary. We are grateful to our new and existing investors for their continued confidence and support for our global expansion. This will accelerate our roadmap as we continue to bring frontier AI into everyone’s
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GenAI Adoption Spikes and Starts Generating Value
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The state of #AI in early 2024: #GenAI adoption spikes and starts to generate value https://
bit.ly/3RmGiiu via @quantumblack #ArtificialIntelligence @mvollmer1 @CurieuxExplorer @enilev @Eli_Krumova @CatherineAdenle @FmFrancoise @AkwyZ @avrohomg @Nicochan33 @anijov @gvalan -
Scaling Risk: Why Small-Scale Proofs Don’t Guarantee Success
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Two related good quotes I heard recently: "You can prove that something won't work at small scale, but not that something works at small scale" "There's way more ideas out there than compute that's willing to take a risk on it"
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Quantiq.io raises 2.6 million euros for medical monitoring
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[#Article] Remote medical monitoring: Quantiq.io announces a funding round of 2.6 million euros #AI #artificialintelligence
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Apple Stock Reacted Negatively to AI Announcement Reveals
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Apple's stock rose in anticipation of its AI announcements and fell when they were made.
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ChatGPT data extraction for synthetic model training
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Good point. If they get all the input/output out of ChatGPT usage, they could do all sorts of things like build synthetic data based on this for their own models, etc.
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Apple’s Strong AI Position Confirmed at WWDC 2026
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I thought the WWDC keynote was pretty good. And fortunately did nothing to undo my thesis that Apple is well-placed in AI, published this morning:
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Sam Altman at WWDC24: Potential Apple and OpenAI Partnership
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I’m at #wwdc24 where Sam Altman is chatting to Apple execs. What can it mean?
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Investor warns against pursuing multiple startups simultaneously
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idk; reading two startups would raise an immediate red flag to me as investor. Focus on one thing.
