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8VC is a leading technology investment firm based in Austin, Texas.

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@8vc
Aug 13
Before founding @ValsAI, @RayanKrishnan was a college radio host. We're thrilled to get him back in his element with @vvkgopalan, this time talking all things benchmarks and evals. As AI capabilities compound, measuring them is becoming both harder and more important. What
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8VC
@8vc
Aug 13
AI is getting more capable and harder to measure. Benchmarks test contrived tasks. Test sets leak. Leaderboards get optimized against. Labs grade their own exams. @ValsAI builds benchmarks the way work is actually done: evaluations authored alongside practitioners on real
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8VC
@8vc
Aug 7
.@Snowflake and our portco @bespokelabsai collaborated on this custom data engineering eval which mimics real-world workflows. You can try it yourself.
sridhar
@RamaswmySridhar
Aug 6
We created data-eng-bench with @bespokelabsai and we’re open-sourcing it. There are plenty of model performance benchmarks for code generation. But for data engineering, the harness matters just as much as the model. We built a benchmark that asks agents to build and fix
8VC
@8vc
Jul 23
One of the defining characteristics of human intelligence is the ability to use tools. Seeing that emerge with real generality in robot intelligence is a profound milestone. Congratulations to @peteflorence and the @GeneralistAI team! 🤖
Generalist
@GeneralistAI
Jul 23
Why create robot intelligence for just one hand, when we could have it learn from many? GEN-1, our latest embodied foundation model, now supports a broad range of end effectors from 5-finger hands, to specialized tools, and everything in between.
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8VC
@8vc
Jul 22
Medical billing shouldn't be an unsolved mystery, let alone a $280B one. Thanks to @candid_health, the tide is turning. Nick, Doug, and friends are bringing a new standard of financial infrastructure to healthcare, and stamping out inefficiency with every release and customer.