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Venture Capital

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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,

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 12, 2024

📌 Musings and Readings “How symmetry can come to the aid of machine learning” (MIT) “Bard becomes Gemini” (Google) “Acoustic Model Fusion for End-to-End Speech Recognition” (Apple) “Shaping the future of advanced robotics” (Deepmind) “Building geospatial foundation models via continual pretraining” (Amazon) 👏 Deals Nauticus Robotics, a Houston-based company developing subsea robots

Joyce’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, February 5, 2024

📌 Readings Amazon earnings press release with strategic initiative details (link) Meta earnings call transcript (link) Microsoft product announcement (link) Alphabet earnings call transcript (link) AMD earnings slides (link) 👏 Deals Carpl, a CA-based radiology AI tech startup, has raised $6m in financing. Cohere Health, a Boston-based startup which provides intelligent prior-authorization

Keep Going

Recently, a number of people in my network got more serious about entrepreneurship and they want to start their own startups. They have great ideas, are domain experts, and have access to engineers and data scientists. They have applied to a few well-known accelerators and got rejected without much of

Google's Gemini

Google launched Gemini today. Gemini 1.0 is a multimodal model that has been trained on image, audio, video and text data and is intended to be generalizable across different data modalities (e.g., you give an image, it can return text-based description of the image). Gemini comes in three

Giving Thanks

I love Thanksgiving for many reasons. One reason is that it gives me an extra opportunity to express gratitude. Indeed, I am very lucky to be able to do what I love. * I am grateful for the investors who back us. * I am grateful for the opportunity to work with

OpenAI Board Should Resign

What happened at OpenAI was crazy on many levels. While I am an outsider to OpenAI's inner workings, I will go out on a limb and say that the people who made the decision to oust Sam Altman probably do not have the right experience for making this

New Industrial Age

Where we are going in Generative AI will fundamentally change how knowledge work will be done, full stop. So we must ask ourselves, what is the future of knowledge work and knowledge workers? Customer services and marketing have already been disrupted. Research, innovation service, creative writing, paralegal, early career roles

What makes NYC a unique tech hub?

This week is NY Tech Week. While the events take place in various parts of NYC within one week, the tech hub that is NYC has been around for a long time. Many years ago, it used to be the case that startups go to the West Coast to raise