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Kanishka Narayan MP
Kanishka Narayan MP@KanishkaNarayan·
Congratulations @goodwin_ml and team @fractile_ai! This $220m raise is proof of exceptional British AI bringing investment and jobs to the UK. Britain has a deep heritage in semiconductors - and we are now renewing it for the age of AI inference 🇬🇧 wsj.com/tech/ai/chips-…
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solbier@solbier1·
We’re thrilled to be backing @fractile_ai , solving inference at the edge of what’s possible. The current AI trend around infra and memory is deeply personal to me. A decade ago, I was part of a small team at Cruise pushing silicon to its limit. We were running perception and planning models on NVIDIA Titan with only 6GB of RAM & 2k CUDA cores. The chips were on-device, power-constrained, thermally limited. The car's air conditioning wasn't designed to dissipate that much heat so we had to engineer custom cooling. Everything was duct tape and ingenuity. It gave me a deep appreciation for doing more with less, and for founders like @goodwin_ml at Fractile who operate the same way. If you're the type who stares at the limits of physics and sees a challenge - reach out !
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ

Exclusive: The U.K. chip startup Fractile said it has raised a $220 million Series B funding round led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund on.wsj.com/4nseSGS

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factorialfunds@factorialfunds·
That change you’re feeling? Like the old way of pricing and modeling entire industries is being turned on its head? It’s been slowly compounding for a while now. When you look at the IGV/SMH ratio (tracking the relative performance of software against semiconductors) you see that this rotation out of software into chips isn’t new. It’s just accelerating.
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Hersh Desai
Hersh Desai@Hersh_Desai·
Ever since I started working with @natfriedman and @danielgross in 2022, we had a core belief that voice would be a massive unlock for the future of HCI. We were on the lookout for the team that would cross the uncanny valley and build a generational company in voice AI. Almost exactly 3 years ago, being chronically online finally paid off when I came across ElevenLab's public beta launch on Twitter. I reached out to @matiii and @dabkowski_piotr and we had the privilege of co-leading the @elevenlabs Series A & B with our friends at a16z. Mati and Piotr are world-class founders and have continuously blown me away with their ability to build a world-class team, ship industry-leading technology & models, and create a generational business. Cheers to this landmark multiple of 11 and many more to come!
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ElevenLabs@ElevenLabs

We raised $500M at an $11B valuation to transform how people interact with technology.

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solbier@solbier1·
@aaronburnett 🚀 SpaceX - solving the world hardest technical problems for two decades !
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Aaron Burnett
Aaron Burnett@aaronburnett·
Seems like the press has decided their framing for the acquisition is SpaceX “rescuing” xAI. Luckily, @solbier1 who is on both cap tables gets it right. If you know anything about engineering this the perfect vertical integration for AI. Photons —> Intelligence No editorializing required.
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solbier@solbier1·
Ethan (from Khosla, the true believers in AI before any VC would even take a meeting) posting some incredible insights: "Hyperscalers which were able to build out incrementally as internet penetration and cloud adoption grew ! " This AI capex cycle is happening much faster.
Ethan Choi@EthanChoi7

For anyone who finally want VCs called out on their BS, can I get enough likes and retweets on this for folks who would like @mmurph @deedydas @MenloVentures to be transparent and share the underlying N, firmographic data, and methodology that underpins this study?

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solbier@solbier1·
@jonchu Congrats @jonchu , pumped to have you alongside for the ride ! 🎉
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Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures
Jon Chu // Khosla Ventures@jonchu·
Today, the Bun team started at Anthropic! So I'm finally able to make public this announcement of our investment in Bun, where we led the Series A round! Why did we invest in Bun? The answer is simple: - Bun was the first time in history someone had the chance to replace nodejs as the de facto js runtime - If someone flips node, there's a valuable company there with plenty of opportunities to push the edge of js UX while capturing a large portion of the value. Is is an enterprise package manager? Enterprise packages? Runtime hosting? This isn't exactly clear, but there's enough analogies to companies like Vercel and Docker that we had confidence we could figure this out with the team. - Jarred is one of the most productive coders I've ever met. It's been a hell of a journey with the Bun team and I can't think of a better place for them to end up than Anthropic. And looking forward to you guys and Anthropic giving nodejs a serious run for its money.
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Aravind Srinivas
Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas·
What do you currently use for researching the major shareholders and their ownerships of a particular public company? And holdings of major institutional investors.
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nico
nico@nicochristie·
Need this printed out :)
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solbier@solbier1·
Congrats @AravSrinivas & the entire @perplexity_ai team on the Comet launch. This level of context with LLMs feels the iPhone moment for AI all over again 🚀
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Karina
Karina@karinanguyen·
We're excited to introduce Tasks! For the first time, ChatGPT can manage tasks asynchronously on your behalf—whether it's a one-time request or an ongoing routine. Here are my favorite use cases: 1/ ChatGPT checks stock price every morning!
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solbier@solbier1·
New evals are badly needed for next gen LLMs !
Karina@karinanguyen

New paper! SimpleQA is newly open-sourced factuality benchmark that contains 4,326 short, fact-seeking questions that are challenging for frontier models. Designing good evals is hard. But we used the following criteria: - High correctness via robust data quality verification / human agreement rates. - Good researcher UX. Easy to grade, easy to run. - Challenging for frontier models. GPT-4o and Claude both score less than 50% - Diversity. SimpleQA contains questions from a wide range of topics, including history, science & technology, art, geography, TV shows, etc.

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Raging Capital Ventures
Raging Capital Ventures@RagingVentures·
Excited to share excerpts from my chat with Sol Bier at our recent NYC Conference. Sol was an early engineer at Cruise & is the founding partner of Factorial Funds, an AI-focused VC fund. The full interview is available here: ragingcapitalventures.com/ai-venture/ A few highlights: 1/4
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Cluseau Investments
Cluseau Investments@blondesnmoney·
I mentioned it before, but what's really cool is Michael Gray, director of $IGIC, has his own insurance company, Gray Insurance, and Gray Insurance's largest holding is 1.8 Million IGI You won't find it on the 13F websites, but you can find it on the NAIC Schedule D
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