Ilya Lyamkin
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Ilya Lyamkin
@ilyamkin
Cloud Infra & Dev Tools @spotify // AI/ML for data-driven VCs @dualspaceai // Angel investor





🚨 Stealth Startup Alert A new player has quietly entered the humanoid race in Paris. 🇫🇷 "UMA" is building a founding team for a general-purpose robot with a unique focus: "stylized" movement and end-to-end AI. We dug into the job listings to decode their strategy. humanoidsdaily.com/feed/in-paris-…


Circle, supporting $USDC, files for an IPO with H1 2023 revenue of $779M (full-year est. $1.5B) and with H1 $219M EBITDA (full-year est. $300M) surpassing 2022's full-year revenue of $772M. However, secondaries are trading at just $4.7B. Not a financial advice, though 🤫


Some of the most exciting AI apps require LLM reasoning over large datasets at test time. For these types of NL questions, RAG or Text2SQL + your favorite LLM are simply not enough. Excited to announce our new leaderboard, from the TAG team at Stanford and Berkeley, to benchmark progress on these difficult types of NL questions over data. Make a submission & top our leaderboard: huggingface.co/spaces/TAG-Res…



Met a YC startup yesterday that automated 60% of their customer support with LLMs and became cash flow breakeven with infinite runway while growing 50% per year, mid-8 figures annual net revenue They are now compounding enterprise value with no need for further VC dollars 🤯



We've raised our Seed Round of 3.5M! Exciting days are ahead and more announcements coming this week!






