Advay Pal

1/ We raised $8.5M in seed funding from @QuietCapital , @SusaVentures , and @neo to build Foresight Health — an AI-native healthcare provider on a mission to eliminate suffering from preventable conditions.

The world is fragmenting. Supply chains are shifting. Volatility is no longer cyclical - it’s structural. Yet most businesses still manage risk on spreadsheets and phone calls. In a world of tariffs, wars, and supply shocks - that doesn't hold up. Markets move too fast. Today we’re publicly launching Pillar, and announcing an additional $20m in investment, led by @a16z. Pillar is an AI copilot for commodity and currency hedging - built for real world operators like you. We monitor your physical exposures and manage risk in real time - protecting your margins at all times. If you operate a physical business, let’s talk!

@deedydas "Hinton and the other prestigious figures in the field presumed that a research team with no revenues would do interesting science for a couple of years and then go out of business"

Demis Hassabis tried to recruit Ilya to DeepMind in 2010 and despite being a PhD student, pre-AlexNet, he thought the offer was too low!

The next industrial revolution isn’t software. It’s science.

@apartovi @neo Congrats Ali!

WSJ features @Neo as one of the highest performing VC funds of the decade. Thank you for the in-depth feature, Yuliya!

will never understand society's obsession with home ownership

@lessin haha i would buy at 9T if i couldn't buy at a lower price, but i can :)

@advaypal if you believe that i know many people willing to sell you shares at 9T... hell even i will find some and sell to you :)

Unless you really do believe that OpenAI is a 10T+ company, here is your big problem as a seed investor with your 140x to 800B... the math don't work (thx chatgpt!)

to the extent that you can control the future, you do not need to predict it

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

@ilyaaskapadia @jayelmnop youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3fZ1… pretty sure they'll upload for 2026 as well

@advaypal @jayelmnop Lectures too?

protip for stanford undergrads: beware the classes with guest speaker lineups that read like AI coachella. you’re basically paying $5k to listen to a live podcast series.

thank you claude code for saving me from the horrors of the customer service phone call

@jayelmnop cs336 is also fully available online

instead I suggest learning by doing cs336.stanford.edu cs336 will kick your ass, but I can't think of a better way to get up to speed with the frontier of AI

📣 Update: we raised our $60m Series B from @Lux_Capital, @IndexVentures and @01Advisors, with participation from @sequoia, @eladgil and @BainCapVC . When we came out of stealth 283 days ago, we had negotiated contracts worth $30m for our clients. As of last month, that number is over $1 billion. We work with the most ambitious companies in the world, including @tryramp, @clay and @RogoAI. Today, we want you to hear from some of them directly. Contracts are the rails of commerce. @crosbylegal is a hybrid AI law firm that gets them signed 80% faster. We’re announcing our Series B to keep scaling the dream law firm.

Today, Bloomberg @business announced the largest deployment of genetic optimization ever by @nucleusgenomics. Tens of thousands of patients across 160+ clinics in India and the Middle East will now have access to our advanced embryo analysis through joint ventures with @IVFIndira — the second largest IVF network in the world — and Abu Ghosh Fertility Group. Genetic optimization is rooted in a universal parental instinct: giving your child the best possible start. That demand is especially strong in India and the Middle East, driving our expansion. This is a milestone for IVF patients everywhere — and for genomics. After two decades of work since the Human Genome Project, we’re realizing its promise as the ultimate tool for preventative healthcare. We’re proud to be building this alongside Indira’s team of over 3,000 specialists, Dr. Hilal Abu Ghosh and his team, and the patients we will have the pleasure of working with. Read the full story in thread.

Proud to announce that Phobos, the second @AetheroSpace satellite, was successfully launched to orbit earlier this morning We’re partnered with @BoozAllen on this mission to demonstrate capabilities for adaptive event detection using high-fidelity Earth observation data collected on orbit This will enable satellites to achieve faster, smarter, decision-making on orbit, and is a major step towards building the orbital intelligence layer for defense needs!

We used AI to predict the failure of a Phase 3 trial before the results were announced. Today, we're publishing 10 more predictions for the future. Thread 🧵

lmao