This is so important. That's why I'm generally weary of creating a business that requires a ton of VC money (with a plan that involves burning it all on GPUs). Prefer instead to bootstrap and build the most with minimal resources instead. Constraints lead to innovation.
STARTUPS
-
Masha Sedova’s Winning Business Strategy Formula
By
–
The Winning Formula: Masha Sedova's Approach to Business Success https://
youtube.com/shorts/eXPnTnE
8h3c
… -
Evaluating intrinsic talent over external signals matters most
By
–
perhaps the most underrated & important skill: being able to evaluate people on their intrinsics (i.e. their intellect, talent, attitude—their true self) VS their extrinsics (i.e. resumé, brands, external signals) i've met maybe 5 people in my whole life who are great at this
-
MosaicML’s LLM Development Philosophy: Aggressive vs Conservative Approach
By
–
What is @MosaicML
's philosophical approach to developing LLMs? Is it like OpenAI: throw everything at the wall and see what sticks? More conservative, like Anthropic, Cohere, etc.? Or like FB, which open-sources everything and lets people figure out use cases? @PrajnaPrayas -
How Replit Integrates MosaicML for AI Development
By
–
How does Replit leverage MosaicML? @YamiToughCookie
-

Ukraine’s Anti-Shahed Drone Hackathon Awards Million-Dollar Contracts
By
–
What if this news is what I should really should have been paying attention to regarding Ukraine: Second Anti-Shahed Drone Hackathon results (this is a Google Translate page): https://
thedigital-gov-ua.translate.goog/news/rezultati
-drone-hackathon-anti-shahed-tri-ukrainski-virobniki-otrimayut-po-1-mln-dolariv-na-realizatsiyu-ta-masshtabuvannya-rozrobok-proti-vorozhikh-bpla?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
… -
Replit AI Hackathon Coming to Chicago July 8th
By
–
Replit AI hackathons are on the move. Next stop: Chicago, July 8th. See you there!
-
Stability AI Funding News Update from TechCrunch Reporters
By
–
more news about @StabilityAI — this time related to funding — from my colleagues @Katie_Roof
, @hgmiller29 and @mhbergen
. -
Databricks acquires MosaicML for ML model building platform
By
–
It also said it was acquiring MosaicML for $1.3 billion, giving it another piece of the new NEW data stack—building and serving ML models from scratch. The explosion of LLMs, it seems, is as good a time as any to re-re-bundle the data stack.
-
Best Company Fundraise Introduction Ever
By
–
This is the best intro to a company fundraise I’ve ever read