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8VC

@8vc

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

Austin, Texas

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Joined September 2010

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@8vc
Jul 6
Much of the AI narrative revolves around architecture research, compute scaling & buying human data. Very few understand the deep technical discipline of "data research," which has driven many of the gains in model capabilities. @vvkgopalan sits down with @madiator &
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Joe Lonsdale
@JTLonsdale
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Three weeks ago, the @Saronic Corsair brought two American aviators home. Last night, Corsairs hit Bandar Abbas in the first US sea drone combat strike. Look out for more news on Saronic soon; they aren’t resting on their laurels. Just getting going. Proud of this team 🇺🇲
U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM
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Yesterday, using multiple one-way attack surface drones, CENTCOM forces successfully struck a submarine and ship maintenance facility in Iran. Three Corsair unmanned surface vessels hit the port at Bandar Abbas Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed sea
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Jack Moshkovich
@jack_moshkovich
Jul 10
1/ Customer research is a $140B industry built on outdated tools. @AaronLCannon & @OutsetAI are a canonical example of the AI wave -- one of the fastest growing, AI-led primitives we've seen. What's their unlock? Why does it matter? And are they just replacing humans?
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Jul 2
EPISODE 159: How AI Is About to Upend the $140B Customer Research Industry @JTLonsdale sits down with @AaronLCannon, founder & CEO of @OutsetAI Learn how AI can outperform humans in customer surveys, the new possibilities with real-time customer feedback, how Outset grew
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Alex Kolicich
@AlexKolicich
Jul 9
Awesome to finally announce our involvement with @ollama since the seed round It’s the most important infrastructure project around the use of open models
ollama
@ollama
Jul 9
Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers. Our belief in open source has never wavered. With today's fundraising announcement and our 9M+ active builders, we’re ready to scale open models into
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Vivek Gopalan
@vvkgopalan
Jul 9
huge ollama day. few people care more about developers than Michael & Jeff. it’s been a delight for us @8vc (s/o @AlexKolicich) to have worked with them from the beginning. heres to the next gajillion tokens
ollama
@ollama
Jul 9
Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers. Our belief in open source has never wavered. With today's fundraising announcement and our 9M+ active builders, we’re ready to scale open models into
8VC
@8vc
Jul 6
Replying to @8vc @vvkgopalan and @madiator
We are very proud to partner with this team since the beginning!
Bespoke Labs Raises $40M to Build Environments that Enable Reliable Agents - My Framer Site
From bespokelabs.ai
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Bespoke Labs
@bespokelabsai
Jul 6
We’re thrilled to announce a $40M investment that will fuel our mission to make AI agents reliable. For the past two years, we've been heads-down doing world-class data curation research and shipping best-in-class reinforcement learning environments for training and optimizing
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Jul 2
EPISODE 159: How AI Is About to Upend the $140B Customer Research Industry @JTLonsdale sits down with @AaronLCannon, founder & CEO of @OutsetAI Learn how AI can outperform humans in customer surveys, the new possibilities with real-time customer feedback, how Outset grew
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Joe Lonsdale
@JTLonsdale
Jul 1
Today, the FDA approved @OrcaBio's TREGZI cell therapy for adults with hematological malignancies (eg, cancer). In Orca’s pivotal trial, TREGZI roughly doubled the rate of patients alive and free of serious chronic complications at one year. Congratulations to the Orca team!
8VC
@8vc
Jun 29
Thank you to everyone who spent part of your busy Config week with us at Pixel Eight Cafe. It was great to see designers, artists, builders, and friends all in one place!
8VC
@8vc
Jun 29
Replying to @8vc @denykhoung and 2 others
Find the artists/vendors on IG: studio.763, studio.trieu, 10thfloor.studio, nowplacesf, yumishowroom, pmaccay, djpatrick, tacossinceros, caffeine depot
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8VC
@8vc
Jun 29
We’re already thinking about the next one. Stay tuned!
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Alex Kolicich
@AlexKolicich
Jun 19
Had a very fun chat with the @TradedVC team Shared some current thoughts on building 8VC as a craft firm in an era of mega funds, stewardship over ownership, and why none of the bottlenecks left are technological
How 8VC’s Alex Kolicich Is Building a Craft Firm in an Era of Mega Funds
From traded.co
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American Optimist
@AmOptimistShow
Jun 18
EPISODE 158: Nima Ghamsari on the Power of AI Agents & Infinite Workforce @JTLonsdale sits down with @NGhamsari to cover some favorite stories from Palantir, why he's all-in on AI agents, @blendlabsinc's comeback story, and more. (00:00) Episode intro (01:45) Making millions
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8VC
@8vc
Jun 18
Congratulations to the entire team at @DeepFission on today's IPO. We’re proud to have backed Liz, Rich, and friends since their seed, and to support them in bringing proven nuclear tech to new frontiers. 🇺🇸⚡️
8VC
@8vc
Jun 15
We’re co-hosting two events for Config Week: ✦ Design × Research with @cognition — Tues 6/23, 6–9pm ✦ Pixel Eight Café with @indent — Thurs 6/25, 2–5pm Matcha, zines, local artists, vintage pop-ups, and a vinyl DJ for a mini creative market. More on our microsite below:
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8VC
@8vc
Jun 15
Come check out what's going on during config on our muni-inspired microsite here:
PixelEight
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