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8VC is a leading technology investment firm based in Austin, Texas.
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    Aug 24
    When we first backed @peteflorence and @GeneralistAI, our thesis was simple: robotics was ready to move beyond narrow, task-specific systems toward general-purpose intelligence. Our deepest conviction was in Pete and the team: world-class researchers with a rare focus on what
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    American Optimist
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    Aug 24
    EPISODE 161: The Robotics GPT-3 Moment @JTLonsdale sits down with @peteflorence Pete and @GeneralistAI are changing everything we know about robotics: -- robots trained on new tasks in seconds (seconds!) -- self-taught ambidexterity & other breakthroughs -- 10X more science
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    Sep 1
    “This is the first benchmark we know of that compares vertical AI to general-purpose AI on long-horizon supply chain work using real supply chain documents.” How Loop's new research program expands the supply chain intelligence layer to include model performance:
    @mattlmckinney
    Matt McKinney
    @mattlmckinney
    Sep 1
    Article
    Introducing the Long-Horizon AuditBench for Supply Chain AI
    Today we're launching Loop's Supply Chain AI Benchmark, a research program to measure and track how general-purpose AI models perform on real supply chain and logistics work compared to Loop's...
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    8VC
    @8vc
    Aug 31
    10k portfolio companies later, @jmelaskyriazi and @metrics_co are in many ways just getting started. Proud to build alongside them since the very beginning.
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    John Melas-Kyriazi
    @jmelaskyriazi
    Aug 31
    Last week, we announced that Standard Metrics raised a $20M Series B led by 8VC. I first met the team at 8VC back in early 2020 when I was still an investor, and we had immediate vision alignment around how software would transform the private markets in the decade to come. The
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    8VC
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    Aug 27
    From inception, @OutsetAI has been dedicated to maximizing and multiplying the human element of research. Their latest launch, Digital Twins, is the boldest and most elegant expression of their mission to date.
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    Aaron Cannon
    @AaronLCannon
    Aug 27
    2023: we invented the AI interviewer. 2026: we invented the AI user. Digital Twins by @OutsetAI is live today. Accurately simulating humans is now possible. But it has done by building one-to-one synthetic twins anchored on real humans, not just asking a foundation model to
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    Aug 25
    Proud to lead @LazarusEnergy's $16M seed, and accelerate supercritical CO₂ turbines for super critical industries: data centers & nuclear SMR. @AtomsNotBits breaks down how Lazarus is attacking the power supply constraints standing between the 🇺🇸 and AI dominance:
    @AtomsNotBits
    Atoms Not Bits
    @AtomsNotBits
    Aug 25
    EXCLUSIVE: 8VC leads $16M Lazarus round to build modular supercritical CO₂ turbines for America’s data center buildout. Today, @LazarusEnergy, the Hawthorne-based startup, has secured an oversubscribed $16M seed round led by @8vc, with additional investment from Marlinspike,
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