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Amplify Partners

@AmplifyPartners
The first investor for technical founders. Early backers of Datadog, Chainguard, dbt Labs, Temporal, Modal, Hightouch, Luma, Scribe, and more.
San Francisco & Menlo Park
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    Amplify Partners
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    Aug 15
    After a half day of incredible talks from AI researchers across academia and industry, we unfortunately still don't know the Weights. Will need to run it back next year and try again 😕
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    👩‍💻 Paige Bailey
    Google AI Studio
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    Aug 14
    🚀 Scaling, agents, and simulation are the primary topics at @AmplifyPartners' Weights Unknown conference this afternoon. @FeinbergVlad (@GoogleDeepMind) and @BenShi34 (Tau Bench, @princeton_nlp) kicking off the sessions. Still lots of alpha in pre-training and evaluation! 🥨
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    Amplify Partners
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    Aug 14
    A simple gut check if you’re thinking of joining any VC firm: can you name a company they’ve backed in the last 5-7 years that’s become a real business? If not, that tells you what you need to know. More ways to evaluate a VC firm to work at:
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    How to pick the right VC firm to work at — Amplify Partners
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    Amplify Partners
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    Aug 12
    AI cost went from a footnote to a primary driver this year: ~75% of AI engineers are adjusting their usage based on cost, and 40% say cost regularly shapes how ambitiously they build. More insights from our 2026 AI Engineering report: amplifypartners.com/blog-posts/the…
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    Amplify Partners
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    Aug 6
    The first post from the Amplify Writing Fellowship (auspicious, yes) is alive!!
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    sisyphus bar and grill
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    Aug 6
    Legibility was popularized by James C. Scott in “Seeing Like A State” in 1998 – it describes when states impose simplifying schemas on complex systems, e.g. Robert Moses destroying existing communities w/ roads. It's usually framed as a bad thing...but this is not always true.
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    Amplify Partners
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    Aug 5
    In the agent era, teams can build systems way faster than they can understand them. This creates a significant gap in tooling for code review (rather than code authorship). How the SDLC is evolving:
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    One(ish) year later: The Agent-First Developer Toolchain — Amplify Partners
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