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Venture Capital

A collection of 29 issues

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, May 13, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Contributors' concerns over OpenAI and Stack Overflow partnership (link) TikTok automates labeling of AI Generated Content (TikTok) “AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of all of life’s molecules” (Google) AlphaFold Server - prediction tool for researchers to understand interaction of proteins and other molecules.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 22, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Llama 3 (Meta’s technical blog). It’s worth reading if you are technical. I like how aggressive Meta has become in launching new open source models and embedding (no pun intended) Llama 3 model to power its apps. I started testing Meta AI in Instagram this

Groupthink

The market is volatile, and people are "taking risks off the table." If you watch major financial news channels, you hear this a lot in the past few days. Today, I heard commentator say that a major correction is good, and they were expecting it. I have several

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, April 8, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Canada to invest $1.8m in AI (WSJ) Nvidia launched FoundationPose - “6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects” (Github) “Long-form factuality in large language models” (Google Deepmind) 👏 Deals Profluent, a Berkeley-based protein design company using AI, raised $35m in financing. Packback, a company focused on

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 25, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Evolving New Foundation Models: Unleashing the Power of Automating Model Development” (Sakana AI) Meta’s SceneScript, a model for 3D scene reconstruction (Meta) 01 Light - a precursor to a digital personal assistant. What do you think? (check it out, documentation) “Tennessee becomes first US state with

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 18, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Incorporating Ethics in AI (UC Berkeley) Apple’s multimodal model (link to technical paper) Cognition released Devin, an AI-based software engineer (link) Foundational model for robot development (link) 👏 Deals Vescent, a CO-based startup leasing quantum 2.0 technologies to enable commercialization, has raised $5m in seed financing.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 11, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings Highly anticipated Nvidia GTC Conference is on March 18-21. (Link) The European Union launched the European AI Office that will be responsible for implementing the AI Act. (Link) “Meta is building a giant AI model to power its ‘entire video ecosystem,’ exec says” (CNBC) Claude 3 launched.

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 4, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “Apple Is Playing an Expensive Game of AI Catch-Up” (WSJ) “New AI image generator is 8 times faster than OpenAI's best tool — and can run on cheap computers” (Link) “Here Come the AI Worms” (Wired) “DataDreamer: A Tool for Synthetic Data Generation and Reproducible LLM

Key considerations when making direct private investments in venture capital

I get this question a lot from friends who are considering making direct investments in startups. I also see this debate playing out in the public square. Having had the opportunity to invest in the private markets in the last 15+ years, my view is that direct investments by individuals

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 19, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings "CDAO Launches First DOD AI Bias Bounty Focused on Unknown Risks in LLMs" (U.S. Department of Defense) "Video generation models as world simulators" (OpenAI) "Diagnostic reasoning prompts reveal the potential for large language model interpretability in medicine" (Nature) 👏 Deals Rogo,