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Cruise Fleet Cut in Half Following Emergency Vehicle Incident

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19 August 2023 17h28

Just days after going to paid scale SF has cut @Cruise fleet by half after Thurs incident blocking emergency vehicle, passenger hospitalized (no word on impact at emergency site). Now 50 cars by day & 150 at night (plenty of others without passengers).

PicPlz Instagram Drama Echoes in Early iPhone App Wars

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19 August 2023 17h18

If you remember what happened with the PicPlz/Instagram weird drama back in the early days of the iPhone, this one should sound a little familiar. Full story can be found here:

AI Gold Rush: Navigating Investment Conflicts in LLM Startups

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19 August 2023 17h09

Today's issue digs into a growing dilemma for investors: investing in the new gold rush in AI, while avoiding startups competing with their portfolio companies that are breaking into LLMs from the LAST AI gold rush

The iPhone moment required ecosystem maturity before mainstream adoption

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19 August 2023 17h07

The so-called "iPhone moment," though, was actually a lot more drawn out than people realize—we needed a foursquare, an instagram, an uber, and a few others for it all to make sense. And there was a tsunami of apps in all of those categories, most of which are lost to time.

MLops Stack Race: Investment Dynamics and Market Competition

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19 August 2023 17h07

It's not so dissimilar from the last mad dash to claim the MLops stack. And investors looking to tap into that wave have to still follow the general house rule of venture: don't invest in competing companies. And we actually saw this same thing happen during the "iPhone moment."

Startups Rush to Build LLM and Diffusion Model Deployment Stack

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19 August 2023 17h06

Those same companies have established themselves in the billion-plus club and now eye enabling deployment of LLMs/Diffusion models. But there's a whole NEW gold rush by startups looking to pick off every piece of the language/diffusion model deployment stack.

New AI Wave: Investors Navigate Competition Beyond MLops Stack

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19 August 2023 17h05

Now that we're entering a NEW AI hype wave, investors are finding themselves with a growing dilemma: avoiding competition with the last one. In the last wave (we'll call it 2019-2022) a whole ecosystem of startups sprouted around picking off individual pieces of the MLops stack.