Today we're announcing over $9B in capital for a new family of funds — our largest raise in 25 years.
AI is rewriting the rules. We're backing the founders building what comes next.
We may look back on colds the way we now look back on cholera.
@clairejyz and @Machiz discuss why airborne disease could become a problem we actually solve:
"For hundreds of years, society just accepted that water had diseases."
"We've done the same thing with airborne
Getting seen by a clinician shouldn't take days.
We're building with the aim to deliver quality care in seconds, and connect patients to physicians in minutes.
@lightspeedvp partner @f_fatemi21 mapped out the entire patient journey and how Doctronic is working to shape access
More than 80% of US physicians are already leveraging AI. The question now is how consumer adoption of health AI is going to drive real patient outcomes, with companies like @doctronic & @Neko helping lead the charge to deliver both access *and* accuracy.
I had a chance to
NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink@lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
Do models have something like a subconscious?
@clairejyz on Anthropic’s research into J-Space and the hidden processing behind model behavior:
"For many years, people have been trying to understand how a model's brain works."
"Could a model have a divide the way humans do
NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink@lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
HEALTHCARE x AI: THE PATIENT JOURNEY
@GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 broke down all 7 stages, from "get covered" to "get paid," and companies building in each one
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NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink@lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
NEW: $500M is being poured to end respiratory diseases.
This week, @clairejyz and @Machiz unpack why some big names in tech are backing Intercept, a new initiative focused on making illnesses like the common cold, flu, and COVID far less common.
Lightspeed Partners
NEW EPISODE: @AnthropicAI looks inside AI's mind with the “J-Space,” the $500M fund to end the common cold, and @amazon’s Project Leo challenges @Starlink@lightspeedvp Partners @GalymImanbayev and @f_fatemi21 map the AI-native patient journey, and the companies we see
Europe's defense infrastructure is being rebuilt.
The New York Times @dealbook covered @HelsingAI’s drone factory in Germany.
When @torstenreil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr. Gundbert Scherf started the company in 2021, democracies were looking to future-proof their defenses.
Today,
We’re proud to participate in @HelsingAI’s $1.8B Series E, bringing the company to a total valuation of about $18B.
As software develops further, so too must the technology that defends our infrastructure.
We first backed co-founders @torstenreil, Niklas Köhler, and Dr.
The best thing happening in healthcare AI right now is how much the industry is choosing to build together.
Proud to co-host our first @AbridgeHQ hackathon with @AnthropicAI , @lightspeedvp , and @cerebral_valley . This is what positive-sum looks like.
Arena started as “a side project of another project.”
In spring 2023, after Meta released Llama, Berkeley students spent a weekend fine-tuning it on shared GPT conversations. The result was Vicuna.
They put it on the web and believed it was better than base Llama. But then came
NEW EPISODE: @Meta reads your brain with Brain2Qwerty. @AnthropicAI releases Claude Science, and Co-founder and Chairman of @arena Ion Stoica joins us.
@istoica05 is the Berkeley professor behind an absurd run of systems that basically run modern AI: @ApacheSpark (the standard