Grace Isford
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Grace Isford
@graceisford
Partner @Lux_Capital investing in the future 🚀 | board @ecorner (STVP) @stanford previously @canvasvc @joinhandshake




We’re releasing SWE-1.6, our best model in both intelligence & model UX. SWE-1.6 matches our Preview model on SWE-Bench Pro while dramatically improving on various behavioral axes. It’s available today in Windsurf in two modes: free tier (200 tok/s) and fast tier (950 tok/s).

Today we’re announcing $80M in new financing for @appliedcompute, to help enterprises go from general to specific intelligence. Our view is that the winners of this era will be the companies that turn their information, and expertise into intelligent systems that compound over time. They’ll have agents that get sharper every week by learning from real decisions, outcomes, and feedback.


🐟Ultra Deep Researchアシスタント「Sakana Marlin」、βテスター募集🐟 Sakana AIは、当社初の商用プロダクトとして、独自のエージェント技術によるビジネス向けAIリサーチアシスタント「Sakana Marlin」を開発しました。 sakana.ai/marlin-beta Sakana Marlinは、高度なビジネス調査を完遂する 、独自の長期推論技術に基づく自律型リサーチアシスタントです。 主な特徴 ・ テーマを与えると、8時間近くにわたり自律的にリサーチ ・ 詳細な調査ドキュメントとまとめスライドを自動生成 ・ 複数人のチームが数週間かけるプロフェッショナルな戦略調査を想定 複雑な社会情勢の中で良質な判断を下すため、AIのポテンシャルを最大限生かすソリューションとして構想しました。 本技術は、先日Nature誌にも掲載された科学的発見の自動化「AIサイエンティスト」の知見と、戦略的探索を可能にする「AB-MCTS」を融合。長く考えた分だけアウトプットの質が向上する「効率的な推論スケーリング」を実現しています。 クローズドβテストを実施します 金融機関・事業会社の経営戦略/事業企画部門、コンサルファーム、シンクタンクなど、日常的に高度なリサーチに取り組む方が対象です(期間中無料)。皆様からのフィードバックをもとに改善を重ねていきます。 ▼ クローズドβテスター応募はこちら forms.gle/MYHGP1wi2q4PHY…



but wait, there's more. With this fundraise, we're also announcing that Prospect is joining forces with @crosbylegal. The sensational founder @GallagherBilly is joining us as Head of Marketing. We've been getting to know Billy over the last few months. Minutes after he first left our office, I called our @graceisford to say: we have to work with this guy. True story.




We raised our $60M Series B for one reason: to hire people who are unreasonably good at what they do. Excited to have Lux & Index leading the investment, with participation Sequoia, Elad Gil, Bain Capital Ventures, and 01 Advisors. But the investors I'm most proud of are the ones who joined full-time: engineering and design leaders from Ramp, Stripe, Hume, and more. As a 15 person engineering team, our talent density is the highest I've ever been around. We're hiring across eng, product, design, legal, and ops. If you want to build the next great applied AI firm (Neofirm), reach out. DMs open


5 minutes into meeting John he told me he wanted to start his own company. I told him Ramp was the best place to learn first. He took that seriously- built 0->1 products, ran hiring processes, operated like a founder from day one. A real builder and extremely high slope. Now Ramp is a Crosby customer. We're defined by speed and Crosby is the first law firm that actually matches it. Not surprised at all!







