The Robots Are Here – Bonsai Robotics Closes $13.5M Seed Round https://
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ologies/robotics-automation/the-robots-are-here-bonsai-robotics-closes-13-5m-seed-round/
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Bonsai Robotics Raises $13.5M Seed Round for Robotics Innovation
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2023 Breakthrough Year for AI Software Innovation and Research
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There’s never been anything like 2023 in software The rate + quality of new products / research in OSS, startups, bigtech, and on arXiv has been breathtaking + inspiring. Playing w/ so many different LLMs still gives me daily goosebumps. And we’re just getting started.
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Always-On AI Companion with ASMR Audio Interface Launch
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When someone drops an always on AI companion that looks like this and whispers ASMR tunes into my ears, let me know, I’ll help you market it and be your first customer.
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Wrapper startups build data moats to later tune models
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By the time you need to scale to millions of users though you have enough money and training data to tune a smaller self-hosted model. Wrapper startups are born defenseless but accumulate a data moat over time.
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AI Reduces Shipping Emissions Across 75 Million Miles
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While AI can’t solve climate change, it will be a key part of the solution. I’m thrilled to see the work of Dylan Keil and team at @BearingAI on reducing carbon emissions in shipping. Ships guided by Bearing have sailed over 75 million miles — the equivalent of sailing 3000x
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Tenstorrent discusses AI chip market challenges at MLOps World
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@tenstorrent CCO @DavidBennett__ will be talking about the coming nuclear winter for #ai chip companies at the @MLOpsWorld Conference this month + come find us at our booth. Register here –> http://
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Hiring Your Early Team: First Sales Hires Strategy
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For much more, including stories of first-sales-hire profiles, who else to hire, how to find them, and convince them to join—don't miss my full post on hiring your early team
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Founder-Led Sales: When to Hire a Sales Coach
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Takeaways: 1. Start with founder-led sales—do the selling yourself until you can sell consistently, it gets too boring, or you’re overwhelmed with demand. 2. Consider bringing on a sales consultant/coach (normally a former VP of Sales) to help you during the early period.
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Canva Reaches $500M ARR Milestone in Creative AI
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@Canva apparently went past something like $500m ARR
