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.
$1B ARR. More than 43 trillion tokens per day.
Companies deserve to "own" their intelligence and are turning to Fireworks to build, serve, and scale the models that matter most to their business.
Congratulations @lqiao and team @FireworksAI_HQ on yet another milestone!
Enterprises are looking to control their AI destiny with their own data. @FireworksAI_HQ is helping to make that possible.
We are excited to continue backing Fireworks for their $1.5B Series D raise, bringing the company’s total valuation to $17.5B.
We first backed the team for
Congrats @thinkymachines on the release of their first open-weights model!
Inkling: 975B parameters, 41B active, supporting a context window of up to 1M tokens.
Inkling’s controllable thinking lets developers dial performance with token efficiency, which we believe is a
Today, we are introducing Inkling.
Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.
thinkingmachines.ai/news/introduci…
Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Inkling Playground. 🧵
“What if AI could make a real clinical decision?”
Last month, Lightspeed had the privilege of co-hosting Humans in the Loop alongside friends at @ForerunnerVC.
On stage at HITL, @doctronic co-founder Dr. Adam Oskowitz unveiled their master plan to build the best AI doctor:
Most healthcare starts with a symptom. @Neko starts much earlier.
We’re excited to deepen our partnership with Neko Health and lead the company’s $700M Series C.
The company brings together two dynamic founders who entered healthcare from two very different directions. Hjalmar
Today we're announcing that @Neko has raised a $700M Series C.
@eldsjal and I started the company with the belief that the solution to the trickiest problems in healthcare won't come from scaling the existing system.
Medicine has spent centuries getting good at treating
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,