Thrilled to start my internship @a16z crypto today under @janehk! I’m excited to be working on ZKPs and other privacy solutions, stables, and scalability research alongside some of the brightest minds in crypto @guywuolletjr @alive_
Anne Brandes
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Anne Brandes
@annembrandes
- Mercor is perhaps the best run company I’ve seen in Silicon Valley. They have steadily scaled a thesis on labor markets they were simply right about with a world class team that loves what they do — huge congratulations to @BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidhaMercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.
00:00 - The Sapling Protocol, a fully-shielded by design zkSNARK-based transaction solution created by Zcash, has influenced an incredible amount of privacy solutions. Zcash's Sapling paper is an approachable way to understand the origins of many leading privacy protocols:
- It’s an unconscionable error not to use Paradigm across your operational workflows (GTM, hiring, idea validation, etc). Paradigm is more performant, faster, and cheaper than anything else on the marketParadigm is the AI-native spreadsheet to eliminate menial work. Thousands of users have saved 10,000+ hours with Paradigm, and you can be next. Get your first month free today, then plans start at just $20/month.
00:00 - So excited to use DeepWiki, and kudos to @silasalberti for how he’s thinking about improving softwarewe built DeepWiki, a free encyclopedia of all GitHub repos some numbers: - 30k repos already indexed - processed 4 billion+ lines of code - the indexing alone cost $300k+ in compute spend
00:00 - Mercor is going to change how labor markets work — excited to see what @BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha do nextToday, we're announcing $3.6M in funding and the launch of our platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies. Our round is led by @generalcatalyst and includes participation from @ScottDSandell (CEO of NEA), @Soma_Capital, @Link_Ventures, and others.
00:00 - What if scale really is all you need? Just like the rise of ASICs for proof of work, Etched may very well be the silver bullet for the transformer. Congrats to the whole @Etched teamMeet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time. With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s. Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing,
- I’ve seen customer after customer fall in love with paradigm, check out the hard work of this exceptional team @annarmonaco @michaelalfan0 @June234Introducing Paradigm – a reimagined workspace with AI at its core. Centered around the primitive of a spreadsheet, Paradigm puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips. The real power of Paradigm comes with scale: imagine having tens of thousands of interns working for
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- Congrats to @DistSpectrum, one of the first teams to appreciate the stakes of electronic warfare, and kudos to first believers @pranavreddy @saranormousWe’re excited to announce Distributed Spectrum’s $25M Series A—an oversubscribed round led by @saranormous, @ShieldCapVC , and @natfriedman with participation from existing investors, @felicis and @xfund, along with angels including leaders in technology, defense, and AI
- It's much more likely that Figma or a Figma-like tool cannibalizes frontend software engineering tasks rather than designers open up an IDE-native code gen tool
- Replying to @annembrandesIf you’re working on something similar, I’d love to talk! DMs are open
- It’s been so cool watching @qamcintyre @robertwachen transform grainy images into full-fledged Minecraft this summer… congrats!!!Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game. We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research. Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!):
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