We’re also excited to announce our fundraising milestones: we have raised $55 million, initiated with pre-seed and seed rounds led by @natfriedman & @danielgross , and our Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (
@mignano
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AI Startup Raises $55M in Series A Funding Round
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Pika 1.0 Launches AI-Powered Video Creation Platform
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Introducing Pika 1.0, the idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to life.
— Pika (@pika_labs) 28 novembre 2023
Create and edit your videos with AI.
Rolling out to new users on web and discord, starting today. Sign up at https://t.co/JHRrinsIwx pic.twitter.com/Rve3I2FzmKIntroducing Pika 1.0, the idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to life. Create and edit your videos with AI. Rolling out to new users on web and discord, starting today. Sign up at https://
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Anthropic, Inflection, Microsoft debut three new LLMs
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Amidst all the @sama drama, last week was also big for @OpenAI
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The inside story of Sam Altman and OpenAI secret AI
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THE INS AND OUTS OF THE SAM ALTMAN AFFAIR (OpenAI has a secret AI) → https://youtu.be/B4xx6_bJ9ow #ChatGPT #OpenAI #SamAltman #GPT4 #Qstar
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From Side Hustle to General Contractor: Building Your Business
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Keep showing up on time and eventually you’ll need business cards because you’ll need a sales process, and your more clueful friends will say “put General Contractor as your title; thank me later.”
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Stripe Atlas Impact on Business Formation and Growth Curves
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Yeah, the thesis was Stripe Atlas (and other products, but that was then most relevantly to me of the portfolio) could bend curves by directly interfering on rates of business start, survival, and growth.
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Convert to SaaS: Token-Based Pricing Monthly Subscription Model
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Please turn into SaaS, I will pay for my tokens + monthly!
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Stripe’s macro impact vision from 2016 still driving execution
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“If we execute very well, it will be visible in global macroeconomic indicators” was the pitch that got me to join Stripe back in 2016. (Still lots to do!)
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Startup Risk-Taking: AI’s Largest Arbitrage Opportunity Today
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perhaps the largest startup arbitrage in the ai world today: – risk-seeking behavior (startups) vs risk aversion (big cos) because there’s huge unknowns in the future of AI (copyrights, market structure, product types, etc), willingness to take on risk will reap massive rewards
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Perplexity Leads Multimodal Answer Engine Innovation
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Answer engines will be multimodal and Perplexity is leading the way forward. https://t.co/bKlE8TATdi
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) 26 novembre 2023Answer engines will be multimodal and Perplexity is leading the way forward.