Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop. Many statistics show that AI impacts billions of lives, but sometimes a story still hits me emotionally. Let me share what happened. Skyfire AI, an AI Fund
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Maintaining Quality Standards in AI Content Monetization Strategy
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You need to maintain a high bar though — we say no to a lot of brands that we feel our audience will not like. Luckily this isn’t my primary source of income (I run a company called Aeos that works in genAI + content), so we have the liberty I guess to say no?
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Influencer Marketing Drives Recent Startup Growth Trends
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I know many examples of very recent companies that spammed 70% of their fundraise into influencer marketing and suddenly became massive lol
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Crunchbase Uses AI to Forecast Startup Funding and IPOs
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Crunchbase is using AI to forecast startup funding, acquisitions and public offerings—but its biggest challenge may be predicting its own future. @bellelin_ has the story. wsj.com/articles/can-ai-pred… via @WSJ
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LangChain’s Interrupt Conference Gathers Top AI Builders May 14
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Early bird pricing for Interrupt — LangChain's AI Agent Conference — ends tomorrow. Hear from some of the top AI builders & researchers at Interrupt on May 14th in San Francisco, including: @AndrewYNg (DeepLearning․ai) @amasad & @pirroh (Replit) @RussellKaplan
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Eric Simons from Bolt shares insights on AI development
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MVP Development: Finding the Right Cutoff for Basic Features
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after the mvp – some basic functionality i do it tbh. not sure if there is a true best cut off – would be interesting to test!
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Good Stories Take Time: Rachel Metz on LMARENA AI
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Sometimes good stories take a while to finish cooking. I started this one last summer, and the frenzy over DeepSeek provided a great news hook to get back into it. My latest for @BW
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New AI Frontier Lab Led by Industry Veterans Launches
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Finally!!! An AI frontier lab run by adults. Congrats to @miramurati
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Lilian Weng announces Thinking Machines Lab AI research startup
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This is something we have been cooking together for a few months and I'm very excited to announce it today. Thinking Machines Lab is my next adventure and I'm feeling very proud and lucky to start it with a group of talented colleagues. Learn more about our vision at thinkingmachines.ai/ Thinking Machines (@thinkymachines) Today, we are excited to announce Thinking Machines Lab (thinkingmachines.ai/), an artificial intelligence research and product company. We are scientists, engineers, and builders behind some of the most widely used AI products and libraries, including ChatGPT, Character.ai, PyTorch, and Mistral. Our mission is to make artificial intelligence work for you by building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI serve their unique needs. We are committed to open science through publications and code releases, while focusing on human-AI collaboration that serves diverse domains. Our approach embraces co-design of research and products to enable learning from real-world deployment and rapid iteration. This work requires three core foundations: state-of-the-art model intelligence, high-quality infrastructure, and advanced multimodal capabilities. We are committed to building models at the frontier of capabilities to deliver on this promise. If you’re interested in joining our team, consider applying here: 6wajk07p.paperform.co/ — https://nitter.net/thinkymachines/status/1891919141151572094#m
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