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To a computer, words aren’t words. They’re coordinates. Vol. 2 of Liquid Hammer Presents - “What is Embedding?” Little films about big tech 📽️

Ever wonder how much energy it takes to run one ChatGPT query? Here’s the answer according to @sama

The future of communication is here. And it's silent. @alterego_io's headset lets two people “talk” without speaking a word. It picks up the faint electrical signals in your jaw and throat when you silently form words, then relays them as text or audio to the other person. Replies come back through bone conduction, so only you hear them. This demo shows human-to-human conversation. But the implications for AI are huge. Imagine subvocalizing a query, hands free, in a crowded room. Or silently asking an assistant to schedule a meeting, fetch a file, or summarize a doc, and hearing the response privately in real time. It’s like whispering to AI without opening your mouth. Credit to @notboringco for surfacing this one. Mind blown. youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_Ijq…

Don’t feed the AI. Let the AI feed you. @oboelabs just launched the world’s first AI-powered learning platform. With one prompt, it builds a full personalized course. We asked it to teach us Unity game dev → it gave us a curriculum, podcast, quizzes, FAQs. 🙌AI that makes us smarter🙌

Congrats to @nuance_ai on their $10M seed led by @Accel with @southpkcommons & @lightspeedvp! Nuance is building a foundation model for emotion in real time across speech, expression, and body language. We can’t wait to see where empathic AI can lead.

Y Combinator-backed AI productivity and agent platform @useMotion just announced a $38 million Series C round led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing their total raised to $75 million. Congratulations to the Motion team! Equally important? How cute is their mascot? #NailedIt

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Congrats to the @HappyRobot team on their $44M Series B led by @Base10Partners! Excited to see the future of the AI workforce for the real economy.

Arc, our bi-annual open call for pre-seed and seed stage founders, closes Sunday, August 17th at 11:59 pm PT. If you’re an early-stage founder with the ambition to build the next generational company, apply now: sequoiacap.com/arc/

Everything technology touches collapses in price. @pmarca says that’s why TVs, video games, basically anything with electronics in them, keep getting cheaper, while housing, healthcare, and education keep rising in price. "Technology hasn’t really touched them… Productivity growth hasn’t happened in them." The challenge now: bring technology where it’s needed most.

The last few years were about proving what AI can do. Now, it's about building with it. We've put together a new list of startup ideas we're especially excited about— ideas that treat AI not as a feature, but as a foundation. ycombinator.com/rfs

This week in startups: @radicalai just pulled the sword from the stone. A $55M Seed+ round led by @RTX_News Ventures, with support from @noavctech, @eni Next, @nvidia NVentures, @infinitexyz, @alley_corp, and others who see the future in forged materials. Learn more -> radical-ai.com/news/series-se… Congrats to the Radical AI team. #NailedIT #LiquidHammer #Startups

It’s been a STACKED week in venture cap. Some highlights: @VardaSpace Industries $187M Series C led by @NatCapCentral and @ShrugCap to bring drugs made in orbit to everyday care @halterHQ $100M (Series D) led by @Bondcap for advanced livestock monitoring @_MomentHQ $36M Series B led by @IndexVentures to bring automation to the $150T fixed income market @ZeroEntropy_AI $4.2M seed round led by @Initialized Capital for their AI-powered retrieval engine Huge congratulations! 🚀

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