Hemant Mohapatra’s Post

Had a fantastic time hosting the GenAI research mixer in Mountain View a few days ago, connecting with folks from Google/Gemini, xAI, DeepMind, Meta/FAIR, Apple, Tesla, X/Twitter, and many other researchers and operators! Exciting to see several future founders emerging from this group -- including some of our portfolio founders Tom Hamer 🦛 of Marqo & Vivek Raghavan of Sarvam AI! cc: Lightspeed India

*FOLKS IN SFBA*. We told GenAI to make a banner about hosting a GenAI event, and this is what we got 😆 If you can decode this, you are invite to a fabulous GenAI mixer hosted by me and Baris Aksoy at The Graduate Hotel, Palo Alto on May24th 6-9PM PST. We are prioritizing AI engineers, Researchers and founders! Come hang with a super high quality curated set of folks + maybe a few other VCs if we let them in 😉! RSVP here to get your seat! https://shorturl.at/gtquX

Now that Google is finally starting to impress on their product, their distribution advantage will kick in shortly. A good reminder: when distribution is proprietary, distribution wins (Comcast vs Netflix), when distribution is commoditized, best product wins (chrome vs IE), when product is commoditized, best service wins (Amazon vs others), when service is commoditized, best network wins.

if your business is relying on search of any kind -- internal or external facing -- and you haven't tried marqo.ai, you are missing out! Reach out to Brett Umberg and Tom Hamer 🦛 for a demo!