Eric Vishria
@ericvishria
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GP @Benchmark. Director: @ConfluentInc @CerebrasSystems @Contentful @Benchling @CommerceLayer @acuitymd @FireworksAI_HQ @quilterai @pomerium_io @DeepCogito
Joined June 2008
This is the definition of VC that we aspire to.
And I have a different definition of “venture capitalist” than the world has recently adopted. To me, it’s someone whose personal involvement and efforts can materially impact your chance of success. The work not the $$. Others are investors. There are few true VCs in the world.
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Insane execution
Legora's path from our seed round in March 2024 to launching the product in Oct 2024 to being one of the fastest growing AI software companies in the world is truly remarkable. This is an exceptional team delivering sensational products and innovation to their customers.
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FTMO Verified prop traders walk their path. Rise now and start your FTMO Challenge!
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I just wrote a piece on Google $GOOG as the full stack AI company. I actually wrote it in 2017 at @ARKInvest . Every argument @sundarpichai made on the call was in this piece from 8 years ago. https://t.co/3X8COIj9Ma
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Applied Compute has assembled an incredible team to solve some of the hardest problems that companies are facing when building with AI. We're thrilled to have led their seed round! Onward!
Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's
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Generalists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's
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We all know that organic and SEO traffic to our sites is dropping rapidly. And a huge part of user research on which products to use, justification for mgmt, etc. is done inside ChatGPT or the like. One tidbit from one of our companies - if people ask the LLM how different
We just made Amplitude's first free product. Introducing AI Visibility: SEO for LLMs. Customers are using search engines less and AI more for finding what companies they should work with. AI Visibility queries @ChatGPTapp, @claudeai, and @GeminiApp, and scores how your company
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The AI Cloud is up for grabs. The business will far surpass the CPU Clouds we have so far (which are huge). AWS started with object storage, what will the AI Cloud start with? There are many shots on goal - starting with DC space, starting with GPUs, starting with
I'm very excited to share that @FireworksAI_HQ has raised $250M in Series C funding co-led by @lightspeedvp and @IndexVentures , and participation from @sequoia Capital and @EvanticCapital, bringing up valuation to $4 billion. In total, we raised $327M from prior rounds led by
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My boss and big Satya 👀
We launched Amplitude inside of GitHub today. Insights from analytics can generate new features automatically by having Copilot code on its behalf. This is just the first step towards the future of building software. https://t.co/aMaCoBfxXl
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Meta layoffs suck: lots of world class people got impacted after working nights and weekends. If you are affected and want to push LLM post training research, model-system co-design, audio models and build the best RL&inference platform used by the coolest AI companies -
Several of my team members + myself are impacted by this layoff today. Welcome to connect :)
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This one stood the test of time.
@systematicls @ScottPh77711570 @speedrun @ericvishria @bhorowitz You can read Eric's full talk here: https://t.co/jhmGct4M8u
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It is intuitively easy to understand why self play *can* work for LLMs, if we are able to provide a value function at intermediate steps (although not as clearly guaranteed as in two-player zero-sum games). In chess / go / poker, we have a reward associated with every next
Self play works so well in chess, go, and poker because those games are two-player zero-sum. That simplifies a lot of problems. The real world is messier, which is why we haven’t seen many successes from self play in LLMs yet. Btw @karpathy did great and I mostly agree with him!
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We often talk about ‘n of 1’ companies, but rarely ‘n of 1’ people. Ev is one of them. World-class in every way. Love you dude ❤️
Honored to share that I’ve joined @Benchmark as a General Partner.
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Today, @everettrandle joins Benchmark as our newest General Partner. Benchmark was founded in 1995 by venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in their 30s. It has been re-founded by the same phenotype many times in the last 30 years. Benchmark has held fast to a simple truth:
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The State of AI in SaaS: SaaS is Dead, Long Live SaaS This started as an analysis of Andrej Karpathy's excellent overview of AI's capabilities. Those who deeply understand this will make all the returns and everyone else will lose a lot of money. "Ghosts" is a brilliant
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Reducto continues to lead the world with their document processing models. They've made remarkable progress since we led the Series A with 1B pages processed! Excited to be joined by a16z at the Series B.
I’m thrilled to announce @reductoai’s $75M Series B led by @a16z, which brings our total funding to $108M. Just five months after our Series A, we've surpassed 1 billion pages processed and grown our monthly volume 6x. We now process hundreds of millions of pages every month for
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Takeaways from the #Broncos' Week 6 win: • Sean Payton owes his game check to Vance Joseph for saving his hide in this one. If it weren't for Denver's dominant defense, they likely would've suffered one of the worst losses in recent memory. • This was the most BAFFLING game
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This is when you know your customer. The value of the "AI Code Review" category is almost exclusively from generated code. Yes there are bugs in hand written code, but the guard rails are way more important in this context. Thus, copy pasting is the workflow I want.
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