Brian Zhan (@brianzhan1) started following @eringriffith on Oct 2, 2024

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…

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!

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.

RT @JayChia5: @ChanChan_Mao just made some of the best Push vs Pull-based engine visualizations I've ever seen. Full talk coming on Tuesd…

RT @michkuts: my favorite part about being a cs major is telling people i’m a cs major bc they assume i’m really smart but alas🧚🏼🧚🏼✨ i’m a…

This is actually something to brag about

RT @gjbernat: One might say that uv is a fairly popular within the Python packaging space 👀👀👀🫢 here is an image demonstrating it via GitHub…

RT @LeptonAI: OpenAI has rolled out native voice mode support for GPT4, but what about your own llama models?We are excited to release our…

RT @paulg: When To Do What You Love: https://t.co/kMDf3RYhW9

RT @Forbes: Houston-based Bot Auto, founded by Xiaodi Hou, raised $20 million in its initial funding round and plans to begin commercial tr…

RT @tengyuma: Super excited to partner with @harvey__ai's team and @gabepereyra! TLDR: our legal embedding model, voyage-law-2, already i…

A little trip down memory lane: - 3.5 Sonnet launched 3 months ago - Artifacts launched 3 months ago - Our API became generally available 6 months ago - Claude 3 Opus launched 6 months ago - We started offering Claude Pro a year ago - Claude dot ai launched a year and 2 months

We've made a lot of cookbooks: Tool Use Calculator tool Customer service agent Extracting structured JSON Using the tool choice parameter Tool use with Pydantic Vision with Tool Use Misc Building evals Building a moderation filter Generating test cases for an eval How to enable

RT @AurickQ: We used Cerebras to train @llm360 models and throughout the process thinking how it would be a perfect fit for inference. Nice…

More info on the Arctic data recipe from @FilipGralinski ...

RT @VoyageAI: 📢 Announcing a new generation of Voyage embedding models: voyage-3 and voyage-3-lite! When compared with @OpenAI's v3 large:…

RT @minchoi: 2. Math Graph Animation https://t.co/oPwgtc4faN

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The news is out—catch up on the announcements we dropped yesterday https://t.co/I3Z9Ycthc6

https://t.co/dTaheCUSue We @cowboyvc continue to be excited about AI opps in “unsexy tech”. Find a deeper dive for some areas to modernize manufacturing written by our intern @LAMediorreal

Hats off to team @DrataHQ for another incredible Drataverse🤙

RT @naval: The real founder mode is not giving a damn.

Here is my doggo, when she was a puppy. Some non-toxic poasting. https://t.co/eJRxyDZc7a

Gas price on Ethereum is sub 3 gwei...I don't remember it being this low even in the last bear market. Pretty powerful signal of L2 adoption this cycle

RT @samczsun: In a war room, every second counts. But without having been in one, how could you know what to expect or how to respond? Blog…