Abdullah Al-Shaksy

To anyone curious about the @PhazeVentures origin story as the first #vc out of #Oman, I just shared my first short article on @LinkedIn: linkedin.com/pulse/phaze-ve…

Next week I'm sitting down with @sashaorloff and @omar_or_ahmed — two founders who've raised $140m+ — to talk about the realities of raising venture rounds. Between the three of us, we've raised $260M+. Free to attend → luma.com/8lnkwx29

Healthcare AI will be bigger than legal AI, bigger than coding AI. But most investors still dont see it. Heres the math that changes everything 🧵

🩺 @sullyai has returned over 30 million minutes to physicians — more time with patients, less on paperwork. @baseten powers this with their optimized inference stack built using NVIDIA Blackwell, NVFP4, TensorRT LLM, and NVIDIA Dynamo, to run frontier open models like gpt oss 120b. The result: 10x cost reduction and 65% faster responses for workflows like clinical note generation. 🔗 Read the blog: nvda.ws/468smA3

We are pleased to announce the successful closing of a $7.5 million funding round led by @jasoorventures , with participation from @PhazeVentures , @ITHCAGroup , @IDOInvestments, @annexinvestment, and a number of prominent investors. Read more: acesse.one/emushrif #startup

We’re hiring engineers + eng leaders at Sully.ai! If you haven’t built and shipped at a startup before — this isn’t for you! Ex-founders, MDs & researchers from MIT, Stanford & NASA; building real AI agents used in hospitals today to help doctors save more lives. Small team. Big impact. No fluff. jobs.ashbyhq.com/sully-ai

@nicochristie Would love to give this a try!

Fun feature, you can share any file by generating a link and people can jump into your file and history. This is the YC analysis: tryshortcut.ai/share/160e0c6d…

Codes are limited at tryshortcut.ai Beyond doing your work, it also has near perfect feature parity on Excel. Directly edit, import, and export files. That means there is no reason to go back to Excel. It's like going back to VScode after Cursor.

We are excited to announce our investment in UAE-based @TarjamaMENA’s $15 million Series-A funding round. With over 700 clients globally, they are a leading #B2B #LLM solutions provider for Arabic-speaking enterprise customers.

It was an honor to join His Highness Sayyid Bilarab on a tour of our portfolio company @emushrif’s HQ in #Oman, showcasing their homegrown software and hardware capabilities. Thank you to @RoyalOmanFamily, @adnan_shuaili, and the entire team for arranging and hosting the visit. Onwards and upwards!

The AI Revolution in Healthcare: What the Next Decade Means for Patients and Clinicians. Discover how cutting-edge AI is transforming Healthcare in the next decade. Read the full article: bit.ly/3Q8cSnh #AIForHealthcare #HealthTech #MedTech #AI #technology #healthcare

Congratulations on the raise @getqeen! @PhazeVentures

I was blown away today at the number of ways high school students are using AI. Cheating has always been around, but the efficiency of cheating is exponentially increasing with generative AI. While my insights came from a sample of one, they were so convincing that I believe the findings can be applied across the 18m high school students in the US. If you don't believe me, ask one. 10 Takeaways: 1) Use of generative AI in writing papers is everywhere, as in it's out of control. 2) Students are not concerned about hallucinations given they're relatively infrequencies. 3) The amount of time being spent on homework is down by as much as 50%. 4) Teachers can't keep up. Not only is ChatGPT and Gemini being used for writing papers, students are washing the generated language with 3rd party tools (e.g., QuillBot) to make AI undetectable. 5) If a teacher accuses a student of using these tools, the student will likely have plausible deniability. 6) Students are using their endless creativity to workaround administrator's cheating roadblocks. For example, ChatGPT is often blocked on school Wi-Fi so the students just use their hotspots. 7) College admission essays are most often written by the machine. As evidence of how prevalent this is, Duke University said, “Essays are very much part of our understanding of the applicant, we’re just no longer assuming that the essay is an accurate reflection of the student’s actual writing ability." 8) While school administrators view this as cheating, students don't. 9) Since "everyone is using the tools", you're at a major disadvantage if you're not using AI for schoolwork. 10) Generative tools are little help with math. Separately, the tools are used to create example test questions (by uploading study guides), which I view as a novel use case. The Big Picture: Initially I was shocked at hearing how widespread generative AI is being used in school. After reflecting on it, I landed on the view that the students using these tools are on the right track. You have to embrace these tools to have a seat in the job market down the road. And it won't be just information workers, skilled labor will undoubtedly need to leverage AI to stay relevant.

It’s that time of year again! Applications for @PhazeVentures summer 2024 #internships are now open: linkedin.com/jobs/view/3811…

The car was invented in 1886 but horses weren’t replaced as a means for transportation until 1920’s for early adopter regions and 1950’s everywhere. Transformative technology doesn’t appear everywhere immediately. The future is not evenly distributed and not easily distributed.

Never a dull moment on the march towards #AGI

New monster post: my own current perspective on the recent debates around techno-optimism, AI risks, and ways to avoid extreme centralization in the 21st century. vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/1…

Companies ranked by earnings (trailing 12 months): 1. 🇸🇦 Saudi Aramco: $307b 2. 🇺🇸 Apple: $112b 3. 🇺🇸 Exxon Mobil: $86b 4. 🇺🇸 Microsoft: $85b 5. 🇳🇴 Equinor: $78b 6. 🇺🇸 Alphabet: $71b 7. 🇬🇧 Shell: $68b 8. 🇨🇳 ICBC: $62b 9. 🇧🇷 Petrobras: $57b 10. 🇨🇳 China Construction Bank: $56b . 11. 🇺🇸 JPMorgan Chase: $52b 12. 🇺🇸 Chevron: $50b 13. 🇬🇧 BP: $47b 17. 🇷🇺 Gazprom: $44b 18. 🇹🇷 Turkish Airlines: $43b 20. 🇰🇷 Samsung: $35b 22. 🇩🇪 BMW: $35b 25. 🇺🇸 Pfizer: $33b 30. 🇺🇸 Meta: $27b 31. 🇺🇸 UnitedHealth: $27b 32. 🇹🇼 TSMC: $25b 35. 🇺🇸 Johnson & Johnson: $24b 39. 🇺🇸 Home Depot: $24b 42. 🇩🇪 Mercedes-Benz: $21b 44. 🇯🇵 Toyota: $20b 46. 🇫🇷 LVMH: $19b 49. 🇺🇸 Walmart: $19b 51. 🇺🇸 Visa: $18b 52. 🇨🇳 Alibaba: 18b 54. 🇷🇺 Sberbank: 18b 55. 🇺🇸 Procter & Gamble: $18b 62. 🇺🇸 Merck: $16b 73. 🇺🇸 Cisco: $14b 79. 🇨🇳 Kweichow Moutai: $13b 80. 🇺🇸 Coca-Cola: $13b 86. 🇺🇸 Tesla: $13b 88. 🇺🇸 Oracle: $12b 99. 🇨🇭 Nestle: $11b 101. 🇺🇸 Mastercard: $11b 104. 🇮🇳 Reliance Industries: $11b 107. 🇺🇸 General Motors: $11b 128. 🇩🇰 Novo Nordisk: $9b 135. 🇺🇸 Ford: $9b 153. 🇺🇸 PepsiCo: $9b 160. 🇯🇵 Sony: $8b 162. 🇺🇸 McDonald: $8b 167. 🇨🇭 Novartis: $8b 169. 🇺🇸 Costco: $8b 241. 🇺🇸 Eli Lilly: $6b 247. 🇺🇸 Amazon: $6b 267. 🇺🇸 Netflix: $5b 304. 🇺🇸 Starbucks: $5b 326. 🇯🇵 Nintendo: $4b 355. 🇺🇸 NVIDIA: $4b 405. 🇫🇷 Hermès: $3b 468. 🇺🇸 Target: $3b 480. 🇺🇸 PayPal: $3b 502. 🇨🇳 BYD: $3b 526. 🇭🇰 Lenovo: $3b 564. 🇯🇵 Nissan: $3b 596. 🇯🇵 Canon: $2b 705. 🇺🇸 Hilton: $2b 744. 🇺🇸 Airbnb: $2b 817. 🇺🇸 Best Buy: $1.78b 821. 🇫🇷 Renault: $1.77b 843. 🇩🇪 Lufthansa: $1.72b 988. 🇯🇵 Mazda: $1.42b 993. 🇮🇪 Ryanair: $1.41

Application deadline: May 13th, 2023

Our goal is to create an unparalleled opportunity for young #Omanis to learn, have fun and gain exposure in a high-impact and growing part of our regions economy.

📢 Looking for creative, independent, and dedicated #interns (2-3 month program)!