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David Gerster

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Investing in enterprise AI startups

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David Gerster
8 months
Excited to announce Fusion Fund's $190M Fund IV! We invest in seed stage startups across Enterprise AI, Healthcare and Industrial Technology. My main focus is Enterprise AI, and I'm very fortunate to sit on the Fusion Fund investment committee. https://t.co/mJJF9aUGVU
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Led by Lu Zhang, Fusion Fund secures $190M for its oversubscribed Fund IV, backing innovation in healthcare, enterprise AI, and industrial automation.
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@RichardSocher
Richard Socher
2 months
You . com offers to buy perplexity. Money is totally in the bank and ready to go. Also, Google, we offer to buy them also. TikTok? Certainly, for good measure.
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@nexa_ai
NEXA AI
3 months
Since we launched Hyperlink a little over a week ago, we’ve received tons of support and valuable feedback. After some quick iteration, we’re releasing v0.2.8: 🚀 3× indexing speed (1k-page PDF < 30s on M4 Max, under 3 mins on Intel Core Ultra with iGPU) 🌐 Full Chinese doc
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@nexa_ai
NEXA AI
3 months
AI PCs are here - yet we still lose 500+hrs/yr chasing scattered files and buried insights. Cloud AI risks your sensitive data. On device AI doesn't. Meet Hyperlink - the fully offline AI agent that instantly searches local folders and unlocks missed ideas with in-text
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@shawnshenjx
Shawn Shen
3 months
I’m Shawn, founder of https://t.co/6SYcxgwroZ, former researcher at Meta and CS PhD at University of Cambridge. Today we’re launching https://t.co/6SYcxgwroZ: we built the world’s first Large Visual Memory Model - to give AI human-like visual memories. Why visual memory? AI to
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@vectara
Vectara
3 months
What an exciting week for our friends at @playai! A massive congratulations on their acquisition by @Meta. This is truly a landmark moment for them and a huge validation for the innovative technologies they've embraced. We're thrilled to share that Vectara is the
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@youdotcom
You.com
3 months
Grok 4 🤝 YDC You know the drill: ask and you shall receive. @xAI’s flagship model is the latest addition in the you(dot)com toolbox. It’s ready for all your complex research questions, agentic workflows, and everything in between.
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@gerster
David Gerster
4 months
I said “walk and chew gum at the same time” in a meeting today, and the youngsters on the team thought it was hilarious—first time they’d heard that colorful idiom.
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@youdotcom
You.com
5 months
Just dropped: Claude Sonnet 4 & Claude Opus 4 now on @youdotcom. Anthropic’s most advanced models, ready to go in our expansive tool chest. As usual, we ship fast.
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@vectara
Vectara
5 months
Vectara has been selected by @anywhere_re to revolutionize their title creation workflow with Enterprise AI. As the real estate industry embraces AI, RAG sprawl—the explosion of disconnected, hard-to-govern AI projects—has become a growing threat to efficiency, accuracy, and
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@RichardSocher
Richard Socher
6 months
There are so many models that it can get confusing so today we launched an auto-router - you get the best answers from any of the top models. At the same time, we have AI experts and model enthusiasts who will enjoy access to 10 new models we just added including: ✅ GPT-4.1 ✅
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David Gerster
7 months
Applications are now open for the 2025 Fusion Fund Venture Fellowship! This three-month program offers a practical introduction to early-stage investing from Fusion Fund's senior investment team. Apply here: https://t.co/wm65y5n8hx #FusionFund #venturecapital #VC
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@youdotcom
You.com
8 months
Pop quiz! Guess who integrated Google Drive? The answer wont “perplex” you... 🙃 @youdotcom now allows you to upload files directly from @googledrive Plus our PDF reader just got a big upgrade. Hard-to-read PDFs can now be analyzed with an accuracy our competitors can't match
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@RichardSocher
Richard Socher
9 months
Now that openai has caught up to our old research agent from over a year ago we will soon launch our advanced research and intelligence agent which will be 10x better than what we have had and openai just launched. Give us another week or so. We're cooking 🔥🤘
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@FusionFundVC
Fusion Fund
9 months
“Tech Pioneers - Collaboration for the Intelligent Age” hosted by AI House Davos 📅 Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 5:30pm - 6:25pm CET 📍 Promenade 68, 7270 Davos Platz If you are attending, please feel free to join Lu and say hi! #WEF2025 #Davos2025 #AI
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@gerster
David Gerster
1 year
Bills-themed stickers on my iPhone. What else belongs in this collection?
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@gerster
David Gerster
1 year
GO BILLS!
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@FusionFundVC
Fusion Fund
1 year
Congratulations to @vectara CEO & Co-founder Amr Awadallah on reaching 2M downloads of the Hughes Hallucination Detection Model (HHEM) on @huggingface!🚀 Excited to see what's next as @vectara leads the charge in combatting LLM hallucinations. Read more: https://t.co/OgmbxuSpGc
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@awadallah
Amr Awadallah 🤖
1 year
🎉 Big milestone alert! 📷Our Hughes Hallucination Detection Model (HHEM) just hit 2 MILLION downloads on @huggingface! Launched last Nov, we hit 1M downloads 3 weeks ago, and now we hit 2M downloads. This recent acceleration is a clear leading indicator that the #RAG AI
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@gerster
David Gerster
1 year
Congrats again to the 2024 Fusion Fellowship class, and huge thanks to everyone who helped bring it together!
@FusionFundVC
Fusion Fund
1 year
Excited to announce the graduation of our @FusionFundVC 2024 Venture Fellowship Cohort! From 400+ applications, this cohort stood out representing diverse backgrounds. Kudos, Fusion Fellows! https://t.co/U5xR1oP7JB  #VentureCapital #NextGenInvestors
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