VC Cafe
JUNE 26, 2023
While web search requires huge resources, I believe that smaller LLMs and open source technology will play a big role in creating specialised vertical search engines for topics like health, legal tech, travel, education, etc and there lies the opportunity for startups.
Software By Rob
AUGUST 11, 2009
At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? Are there exceptions in the open source world? The UI could kill small animals.
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David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category. For example, Munch , providing automated vertical video clips from long form content or KwaKwa , the latest product by Piggy, powering communities.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.
Austin Startup
MARCH 7, 2018
Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers.
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