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Benchmark focuses on early-stage venture investing in consumer, marketplaces, open-source, AI, infrastructure, and enterprise software.
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When I first met @paulscherer I was struck by his intellect, values, and vision for how technology can help bring people together in a time of extreme hyper-personalization.
I've long believed one of the most important consumer opportunities in AI would be something that felt like a friend. But most of what I saw created more loneliness, not less.
Paul’s vision for @eigenhq is the first in this category that felt truly different. This was something our team needed to be a part of, and @Benchmark is proud to partner with Paul on this journey.
More here in Fortune (link below):
paul@paulscherer
I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.
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I've only felt this a handful of times in a first meeting — TheFacebook (2005), Twitter (2007), Instagram (2010), SnapChat (2011). Meeting @paulscherer hit me the same way -- wow, then inevitability
paul@paulscherer
I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.
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I’m honored to share that @eigenhq has raised $15M from @Benchmark to build a mutual friend that’ll help us belong and grow, together.
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.@cerebras data centers are live across North America.
More are coming in Europe.
Here's a quick peek inside one of several new facilities under construction in Toronto, Canada.
Racks and racks and racks of CS-3s.
The fastest AI in the world, delivered across the world.
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Introducing Avatar V. We’ve solved character consistency. Forever.
Record yourself once for 15 seconds. From there, you can show up anywhere, in any look, and it still feels like you. Any photo becomes a video that looks, moves, and speaks like you, down to your mannerisms and quirks.
This is the most advanced AI avatar model in the world.
And we know that’s a big claim, so we brought the data to prove it.
Thread below:
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Sierra co-founder @btaylor says the era of web apps is over:
"We made these databases, these systems of record in the 80s and 90s. And then as the web browser came out, we said, 'We're going to give you some forms and fields in the web browser to manipulate these systems of record.'"
"Now we think, in the future, most people are just going to be talking to AI agents, and they're just going to be performing those actions on your behalf."
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We're thrilled to announce Bret Taylor, Co-Founder & CEO of Sierra, will be joining us at Open House for a fireside chat.
Bret co-created Google Maps. He was CTO of Facebook. He co-led Salesforce as Co-CEO. He sits on the board of OpenAI. And now he's building Sierra, redefining how businesses connect with customers through AI.
This one's not to be missed. 🔥
Spots are limited. Register today to make sure you're there. clickhou.se/4c4tLtu
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A truly sensational product and company. Legora has gone $1M to $100M ARR in less than 18 months. Setting a new speed record for the fastest ever to do it with a direct sales motion. Thrilled to have backed this remarkable group of people at seed, 7 months before they launched.
Max Junestrand@MaxJunestrand
I want to take a moment to recognize a gravity-defying achievement by the entire @WeAreLegora team. We have grown from $1M to $100M in annual recurring revenue in just under 18 months. In this time, we've grown into a truly global company with over 400 colleagues - and built the platform where legal work happens. Powering more than 1,000 teams worldwide. It is all about the people, and I couldn’t be prouder of the Legora team and thankful to our customers and partners. This achievement is as much yours as it is ours.
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Agents need a search engine that is effectively a web database that can be queried arbitrarily powerfully.
Monitors lets you detect CREATE and UPDATE
Exa@ExaAILabs
Introducing Exa Monitors - your agent’s radar for the web Exa is a search engine built from scratch, and today we're exposing our "update" layer. Simply define what to find and how often - Monitors will return any new information, via webhook.
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Thrilled to announce our investment in Starcloud. From our initial investment to a $1.1B valuation, this extraordinary engineering team continues to make remarkable breakthroughs in power, cooling, and manufacturing. Their technical rigor and ambition is truly exceptional!
Philip Johnston@PhilipJohnston
I am super excited to share that @Starcloud_ has raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1bn valuation to fuel our development of data centers in space 🚀 The round comes after the successful deployment of our first satellite, Starcould-1, a few months ago, which had the first @NVIDIA H100 on board and was the first to train an LLM in space. The funds will be used to develop our third satellite, which aims to be cost-competitive with Earth-based data centers in terms of AI inference cost. The round was led by @Benchmark and @EQT Ventures, and we are excited to welcome Benchmark GP, @Chetanp Puttagunta, to our board. We are also excited to welcome other new investors, including the world's largest infrastructure fund, @Macquarie Capital, @SevenSevenSix 7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣, Manhattan West, Adjacent, Carya, GSBackers, and Harpoon. We are very grateful for the continued support of existing investors, including @NFX, @NebularVC, @YCombinator, @FUSE_VC, @Soma_Capital, 3Capital Partners, Wyld VC, Tiny VC, and Taurus Ventures. Onwards!
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Exa just made our first acquisition: Browser Buddy
@trillarnie and @jeremyjsuh were working on new types of retrieval to organize the web, so that anyone could find the best blogs and essays.
Now they’re joining Exa to do the same, but for all the world’s information.
They’re two of the smartest and kindest engineers I’ve met, and it’s already been an insane few days working with them.
Here’s to organizing the web together 🍻
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I’m excited to announce that Sierra has acquired Opera Tech in Japan.
Opera’s co-founders, Keita Morikawa and Kiyo Kunii, started the company with the simple idea that AI could help businesses deliver high-quality customer experiences at scale. We’re so excited to have them join us to lead Sierra in Japan. sierra.ai/blog/sierra-ac…
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New updates every 5 hours is insane!
Dmytro Dzhulgakov@dzhulgakov
Real-time (online) RL is super cool because it learns from real user interactions rather than proxy rewards. @FireworksAI_HQ powers rollouts here too: same aligned numerics and router replay, but serving real user traffic at high speeds
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Q4 '22 divided the world into pre- and post-ChatGPT. Q4 '25 did the same for agentic AI. The best entrepreneurs sensed the gravity of this moment — @btaylor and the team at Sierra acted on it
Bret Taylor@btaylor
Today, Sierra is releasing Ghostwriter, our agent for building agents. With Ghostwriter, you can create an AI agent for your customer experience — one that can chat, pick up the phone, speak dozens of languages, take action on your systems of record, and be protected with industry-leading guardrails — simply by having a conversation. No clicking, no forms, no menus. Codex and Claude Code have transformed how we build software, making it possible for software engineers to orchestrate and review the work rather than doing all the work themselves. We think the same transformation will happen for all software. Rather than every enterprise app having a web app for humans and an API for automation, every software platform’s UI will be an agent that can do the work on your behalf. I recorded a demo of my building and optimizing an agent with Ghostwriter so you can see how powerful and easy it is to use. It’s completely changed the way our early adopters build agents, and it’s changed the way I think about the software industry. Let me know what you think, and, if you’re interested in trying it out at your business, please reach out directly.
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