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Arcee’s Router Mechanism and SLM Models Remain Closed Source
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its a bit more than that 🙂 but, no. the router mechanism and the internal SLM models that we use in the pool are not open source. You will find many other Arcee open source models here:
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Graphite launches Diamond AI code review tool with $52M Series B
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Anthropic-backed Graphite launched Diamond, an AI code review tool that provides codebase-aware feedback and fixes, to help teams code faster
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 mars 2025
It also announced a new $52M Series B round, led by Accel with Menlo Ventures and others in participation!pic.twitter.com/umiPk1hSroAnthropic-backed Graphite launched Diamond, an AI code review tool that provides codebase-aware feedback and fixes, to help teams code faster It also announced a new $52M Series B round, led by Accel with Menlo Ventures and others in participation!
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Founders Build Chronic Illness App With Patient Feedback
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This is personal for these founders, who are making this app to support important people in their own lives. They’ve also been reaching out for feedback from other chronic illness patients including me https://t.co/Hzz9Tn4lra
— Ian Goodfellow (@goodfellow_ian) 18 mars 2025This is personal for these founders, who are making this app to support important people in their own lives. They’ve also been reaching out for feedback from other chronic illness patients including me
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Wiz PM shares $0 to $100M ARR growth story with pivot
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A good day to revisit my chat with the amazing @RaazHerzberg, the first PM at @wiz_io.
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 18 mars 2025
The craziest part of the story is that the $0 to $100m ARR in 18 months timeline included a pivot.
Here's the full chat: https://t.co/qM5ebj9oPl https://t.co/2sP9y1VJZk pic.twitter.com/M2h7bxlijjA good day to revisit my chat with the amazing @RaazHerzberg
, the first PM at @wiz_io
. The craziest part of the story is that the $0 to $100m ARR in 18 months timeline included a pivot. Here's the full chat: https://
youtube.com/watch?v=vnW3zI
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NVIDIA Cosmos Foundation Models Advance Physical AI Adoption
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Announced at #GTC25: New #NVIDIACosmos world foundation models & #PhysicalAI data tools are now available. Industry leaders like @1x_tech
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Alumni PMs Starting Companies: Series A Success Rates
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Let me get the raw numbers here, but what this is looking at is % of companies' alumni PMs that go on to start companies AND that company goes on to raise a Series A.
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Which Companies Create the Most Successful Founders
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4/ Finally, I looked more closely at which companies create the most successful founders. It’s one thing to start a company—it’s another to start something that works. Based on the data we have available to us, the best proxy we found for measuring “successful” was to look at
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Which Companies Produce the Best Product Leaders
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(Here's the full post if you want to dive right in, but keep reading for more highlights: https://
lennysnewsletter.com/p/which-compan
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…) 2/ Next, I looked at which companies’ alumni PMs go on to become product leaders most often (e.g. CPO, Head of Product, first PM hire at a startup). Takeaways:
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Palantir PMs Start Companies at Highest Rate Among Tech Alumni
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3/ Then, I looked into which companies’ PM alumni go on to start the most companies, irrespective of how these companies do. @PalantirTech dominates. Over a third of their PMs have started a company. @Intercom comes in second, at over 18% (almost one in every five alumni