
Deviation
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Deviation
@deviationcap
In pursuit of the exceptions. Early-stage VC backing technical founders harnessing the accelerating forces of data and computing.



Congrats!! I was impressed to learn about some of the engineering wizardry (e.g. *very* low voltage domains, cluster scale memory, ...) that goes into tokens/watt maxxing of state of the art LLMs at interactive tokens/sec/user. Esp fun and memorable is the idea that this is engineering at the "opposite" regime to that of power transmission lines: very low voltage high current (at tiny distances) vs. very high voltage & low current (at great distances). Looking forward to more!

We're coming out of stealth. We've built our first racks after a successful A0 tapeout, $1B+ in customer contracts, and $800m raised. Early customer tests show us achieving SOTA throughput, latency, and power efficiency on inference workloads. Our first racks ship this summer.





Introducing Luma, a world-class finance team for D2C. Most AI in finance focuses on tasks. Luma focuses on decisions. Built on $15B of consumer brand transaction volume. Proud of our team at Highbeam. Check it out: highbeam.com/luma





Big announcement today at @remote! We are going all in on 𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, and opening our platform to the world. Sounds simple until you try to build it: Payroll in one country is already a dense topic. Payroll across the world becomes an insane systems problem: tax laws, social security, benefits, holidays, languages, currencies, equity, and local interpretations that change because a government updated a rule somewhere. When we started Remote, my engineer brain thought we would plug into the payroll APIs that existed around the world. They mostly did not exist, so we did the hard work. We set up entities. We built in-house payroll engines. We documented compliance country by country. We learned the local details that make payroll work in practice. It took seven years. It took a lot of investment. It took a lot of people doing important work. Today we are opening that infrastructure up. Any company, any tool, any workflow, any AI agent can plug into Remote and use the global payroll and employment infrastructure we have built. You keep your systems. We handle the hard parts: payroll, compliance, employment infrastructure, country by country. I am grateful to our team, our customers, our partners, and everyone who supports us along the way. Seven years building toward this chapter. The best is yet to come. Let’s go. Full story: okt.to/VOw785





