Alpaca VC 🦙

"VC firms are looking to compete and punch above their weight with founders by making outsized bets on building and investing through their own advanced AI tools." -- @alexrkonrad @UpstartsMediaCo 🦙👋 How + why we're doing it ⤵️ upstartsmedia.com/p/deep-dive-vc…

DEEP DIVE: VC firms are building their own AI tools to compete for the best startup deals. And for founders, that's changing the relationships game. Here's what the AI-ification of venture capital means for startups, in my new @UpstartsMediaCo feature. upstartsmedia.com/p/deep-dive-vc…

Talked to @alexrkonrad about how we are refactoring our firm @alpacavc with AI. The scoop is below:

Our team's @aubriepagano on the question almost no one is asking via the @greatchatpod this week: youtube.com/watch?v=GtZYtK…

18 hours in Vegas. Anyone in town?

👋 We’ve been working on something new & we’re finally ready to let people play with it. It’s an “app for AirPods” called BeeBot – think of it like a social city guide emceed by an AI-powered radio DJ. I wrote a giant blog post (manifesto!) about it here: dens.medium.com/say-hello-to-d…

BONUS: @aubriepagano on The Aquarius Economy x.com/aubriepagano/s…

Handmer ignites space industry. Poseidon raises $11M for GEVs. Vulcan secures $1.4B deal with USG. RFDiffusion designs antibodies de novo. China does first-ever thorium-to-uranium conversion. +Aquarius ++ Space DJ +++ 3 things What a week for the optimists.

Innovation isn't building something new. It's seeing what everyone else sees and asking why it has to be that way.

Excellent analysis by @rebekah_bastian in @Forbes on the @AquariusEconomy white paper by our team's @aubriepagano and @JoshJagota95 exploring what happens when intelligence becomes as abundant as water. forbes.com/sites/rebekahb…

♒ Our white paper is finally live! ♒ Part investment thesis, part science fiction, part existential crisis. But if you've been craving more substantive thinking and an antidote to the AI slop we are overrun by, this is for you. LINK: alpaca.vc/the-aquarius-e…

@aubriepagano @AquariusEconomy 8/ Read the full 40-page paper + listen to the audio version: alpaca.vc/the-aquarius-e… Fair warning: It's dense, sometimes terrifying, always hopeful, and asks more questions than it answers. #AI #VentureCapital #StartupFounder #AquariusEconomy

@aubriepagano @AquariusEconomy 7/ Every word was written by humans, without AI assistance. Because if we're arguing that human spirit will define the next era, we better practice what we preach. (Though we did get AI help for the audiobook—narrated by Burt Reynolds 🎙️)

Today, we're proud to share The Aquarius Economy, a provocative new white paper from our General Partner @AubriePagano and Principal @JoshJagota95 . It asks a critical question that lies behind all the headlines about AI adoption: What happens when AGI arrives? 🧵

“The Guggenheim — rendered with a custom-trained AI model by artist @emilyxie_art and @titlesxyz. In prompting the model, we were inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's distinctively organic architecture, seemingly futuristic yet classically recognizable. These elements are complemented by artist @emilyxie_art's creative coding, which explores the interplay of materials and patterns, weaving together themes of mythology, memory, tradition, and heritage." -Emily Xie, Lulu Hedstrom and TITLES, this week's #FrankLloydWrightFridays artists.