Brian Zhan (@brianzhan1) started following @ericsyuan on Oct 3, 2024

RT @Zoom: We are excited to welcome Michelle Chang as the new Chief Financial Officer of Zoom, effective October 7, 2024. Michelle brings m…

RT @Zoom: Check out the latest Zoom Workplace releases you don’t want to miss ✨➡️ https://t.co/0Pe98seLFN August and September were busy m…

A testament of big vision, relentless work, fast building & shipping! @sreeramkannan @eigenlayer

RT @LerrelPinto: Why do we needs 100-1000s of demos to train even simple robot tasks? The answer: Supervised Learning wastes rich observat…

Black Forest Labs releases Flux 1.1 Pro and an API https://t.co/nI0aczhGMk

Why Snowflake is backing embedding startup Voyage AI to improve enterprise RAG  https://t.co/e9UMJ3wQyg

RT @VoyageAI: Thrilled to share that we've closed $28M in funding, led by @CRV, with continued support from @wing_vc and @saranormous. Also…

RT @Kyle_L_Wiggers: Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less https://t.co/y4QLLWe7u6

RT @TechCrunch: Voyage AI is building RAG tools to make AI hallucinate less https://t.co/5ZfzQjM7nD

So proud to partner with @poolsideai team of @jasoncwarner & @eisokant !!! This is going to be an incredible journey - it’s a blast to work along with @ericabrescia & @EnriqueSalem

When we led the Ser A of @poolsideai , pre product, we felt, it is going to be one of the boldest investments we ever made at @felicis - partnering w @jasoncwarner & @eisokant is so special because they're so ambitious & assembled a stellar team more swiftly than we have ever

ok, let me be even clearer about this ... 1. at enterprise level there is value outside of product: services, 'customization', etc. 2. when user/buyer same, churn near-instant, when further removed, slower so you can be quicker to fix/adjust and ensure PMF with user 3. 'better'

this is still an under-discussed nuance about enterprise sales ... enterprise buyers are far more sensitive to sales process than product (obvious) you can get a way with far more than you think if, if you know how to thread the needle re: positioning, contracting, their buyer

wow @Pika_Labs 🐇 the rabbit hole looks so good

RT @joshua_xu_: So excited to announce @HeyGen_Official's new Avatar 3.0! Our avatars have evolved beyond lip-syncing to feature full-body…

We are looking for nominations for Early Career Keynote Talks at #CoRL2024. Consider nominating rising stars in robot learning. No self-nominations. Deadline: September 28, 2024 Form and Details: https://t.co/YHlmNynRtc

#MAPoDeL: Morphology-Aware Policy and Design Learning Workshop https://t.co/iJz5JROPwk

Apple had 25B$ CASH on hand and still got out of the funding round.. h/t @fleetwood___ for the insight https://t.co/THXcFUKRNS

RT @LysandreJik: Transformers v4.45 was just released, and it introduces a change I would not have expected: Modularity in Modeling Files.…

Following the recently hosted webinar, we hosted our Q3 FXN dinner with members of the Fusion Expert Network (FXN) where we continued the conversation on #deepfakes and the presidential election. Thanks to Sean Thompson and @cibc for co-hosting and supporting our community. 🙏 https://t.co/kXoFoPryjl

We recently hosted our Q3 CXO Network Webinar on "Deepfakes, Security, and the Upcoming Presidential Elections" - it brought together our CXO members to discuss strategies & innovations for addressing emerging security risks & organizational preparedness around deepfakes & AI. 🗣️ https://t.co/g0xvjKoWfs

Another dynamic behind this: VC firms have gotten SO BIG in the last five years. It's great for the investors, bigger funds = more fees. But the jury is still out on what it means for returns. It is very hard to make a 3x or higher return on a $1bn or bigger fund. I wrote a bit

One reason this isn't as simple as what happened after the dotcom boom is how strange the funding market is right now. Lots of startups that were funded in '21 are still limping along unprofitably and there are no exits in sight. Yet AI is booming, there's tons of dry powder, and

RT @raydistributed: Big news from today’s Daft-led lightning session at #RaySummit2024! During the lightning session, they demoed how to ru…

Exec Hiring Success Rates Are Lower Than You Think:  If I look at all of our executive hires over time, I’d guess that 18 months after that senior hire happens, around 60% of them have “stuck” and we end up churning about 40%.  This is similar across most of the CEOs of companies

Analytical skills are overrated. Taste is underrated. Almost everyone these days has pretty good analytical skills. Vanishingly few people have taste. Figure out who has it and give them power.

Loved the South Bay GenAI meetup last night at @databricks Mountain View office. Great community, great conversation! Thanks for the #DSPy presentations @lateinteraction @arnav_thebigman @dilarafsoylu @kristahopsalong! https://t.co/NffbZNjRqn https://t.co/bTmtoheSO8 https://t.co/JKbxbDORlW

OMGLOL Nothing more entertaining than having a Canadian 🇨🇦 translate conference booth placement into geopolitical analogies while visiting Austria 🇦🇹 -- your sense of humor is priceless. Have a great time in Vienna!