Elain Szu

It is truly the age of open source

MCP is very much alive. Growing even. Really valuable for discovery, auth, bidirectional streaming, and portability across LLM providers without custom integrations. MCP provides a standardized AI-friendly abstraction layer on top of existing APIs. For an agent to hit an API it needs to learn that API specifically - if you need to change API providers for the same function, their API will be different. With MCP more than one API provider that offer similar or overlapping functionality can be hidden behind the same standardized MCP interface, so the LLM only needs to learn one consistent set of tool names, descriptions, calling patterns, etc As usual the truth is more nuanced than what a tech influencer will tell you in their customary ragebait posts.

Introducing Mistral OCR 3, a new frontier in document intelligence! 🧵👇

Excited to introduce: Gamma 3.0 A generational leap for the world's most popular AI presentation tool. Two major changes: 1. Gamma Agent - with one prompt, you can make sweeping edits across the presentation. a. Say 'make it more visual' and it will scan each slide for data that could be visualized better. b. Upload a screenshot of rough notes you want to turn into a slide and it will synthesize the info, search the web to fill gaps, and make a table for you to match your brand or theme. 2. Gamma API Say you have a sales deck you want to reuse as a template. You could build a Zapier workflow to convert all of your meeting transcripts into personalized decks, automatically sent after every customer meeting. Bonus: We’re also launching Team & Business plans, bringing visual storytelling to organizations of all sizes, and a new Ultra plan for our power users looking to push the boundaries even further. PowerPoint has over a billion users, but the vast majority struggle to use it effectively. Why is that? Because making PPTs is still slow and tedious. We want Gamma to feel different. Our goal is to both lower the floor and raise the ceiling, so that anyone can get their ideas out there. Can’t wait to see what you make with 3.0.

@karpathy you mean @gammaapp?

Making slides manually feels especially painful now that you know Cursor for slides should exist but doesn’t.

Let’s decide once and for all if the Great Highway will be a park or not. I’m putting this question on the ballot. Should the Great Highway remain what it was the past century? Or become an iconic oceanside park that defines San Francisco for the next 100 years? Details here: engardio.com/blog/great-hig… I believe that an oceanside park is good for our city. I’m also working hard to tackle traffic concerns. And I’m purposefully putting this on the ballot so voters have the final say. We’ve made the most of a part-time park on the weekends — from senior yoga to dragon dances, jazz performances to Halloween costumes on parade. Now we can make it full time and official. We can give San Franciscans a real coastal park with playgrounds, seating for ocean and sunset views, plazas for concerts and holiday celebrations, and anything we can imagine. We could call it the Great Sunset Park. This is a once-in-a-century opportunity to create something as essentially San Francisco as the Golden Gate Bridge. A park is not only a good time. It’s also good for the environment. The Great Highway is already becoming a road to nowhere. The Southern section is closing due to coastal erosion. Drivers will be forced to turn inland to make their way out of the city. So, what’s the solution? Work is underway to smooth the path for drivers down Lincoln and Sunset. By simply turning left on Lincoln instead of taking the next left at Sloat, we can create an amazing coastal park. The Embarcadero used to be a double decker freeway. Crissy Field used to be a military dump. That is unimaginable today. But the decision to tear down the Embarcadero freeway was controversial 35 years ago, just as the decision about the Great Highway is now. I wonder, will the Great Highway for cars become as forgotten as the old Embarcadero freeway? Will our kids and generations after them be able to imagine San Francisco without an oceanside park? Will we be the lucky ones who get to create this joyful place that will define San Francisco for the next century? We get to decide this November. Read more about the measure and why it’s on the ballot: engardio.com/blog/great-hig…

Well this rocks. 🪨🧗🏼‍♂️☀️ We’re thrilled to announce that professional climber and tireless #solar advocate @AlexHonnold will be delivering the keynote at our upcoming Empower Summit in June. #AuroraSolar #HelioScope

.@gammaapp’s journey highlights the importance of early agility and foresight, from adapting to new AI models to preventing its misuse. On the heels of their Series A, excited to share this discussion with @thatsjonsense! accel.com/spotlight-on/e… @Accel

Sentry for Development is now live with our launch partner Astro 🚀 check it out🧵

did y'all know @getsentry surfaces errors on PRs like this now? this was a real bug that was caught PR: github.com/getsentry/sent…

We just introduced a new license that we believe better balances the need for open source freedoms with today’s pragmatic needs in SaaS — the Functional Source License 🤗

@getsentry Launch Week Day 4 is all about integrations and SDKs! Be sure to tune in to the daily video drop on YouTube at 9am PT, then join the discussion on Discord to chat with the engineers! cfl.re/3G37tZF

Launch Week Day 4 is all about integrations and SDKs, with guest appearances from some of our partners 👀 You'll definitely want to tune in 📺 *And* there is still time to enter to win swag 🎉 sentry.io/events/launch-…

@sogrady @KateHolterhoff @redmonk 👋 a couple of us from @getsentry would love to meet up with y’all. let us know when/where

for the three of you that won’t be at kubecon next week, @KateHolterhoff and i will be in SF. probably will gather at shotwell’s for @redmonk beers if there’s interest. SF folks, definitely let us know if you’re around, we’d love to connect while we’re there.

Want innovation and quality … do what your developers want. @getsentry is non negotiable per this developer team to their ceo. 🙏 for that love. We don’t take it for granted.

I'll be giving a lightning talk on Distributed Tracing on React Day Berlin! I'll tell you how our debugging tools evolved throughout the time, how we came to a point where we need DT, and then we'll rebuild the concept from scratch in order to understand it better.

It blew our collective minds recently when Sentry sent us a warning about a slow query that we didn’t know Sentry could even do. Fixed up an index and that query is fast again! Now we’ve started triggering sentry to record video of users screens while they interact with new features. It’s great way to improve UX!

If you have a @laravelphp application running in production and you’re not using @getsentry, IMHO you’re making a giant mistake. #NotAnAd

We’ve had the pleasure of working with Zhenya Loginov over the last decade through a number of our portfolio companies and we’re now delighted to welcome him to the Accel team! accel.com/noteworthy/wel…