Matt Riley
@matthewriley
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Visiting Partner @ YC. Previously @elastic, co-founder @swiftype.
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2009
Had a coffee chat with @matthewriley the other week when he and a @ycombinator panel came over. We talked about the differences between the startup scene in San Francisco and Austin, and more importantly, the value of being a technical founder.
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Congrats to @useMotion on their $60M fundraise at $550m! I still remember early in the batch when @harryqi666 told me he gave up his seven-figure quant job at 23 to start Motion. It wasn't a tough decision for him, he was just betting on himself.
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nobody tells you this... but a reason we don't have cool new technology is because hardware compliance sucks cue @normalfactoryco. we're automating testing and certification for hardware teams
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April (@AprilAssistant) is a voice AI Executive Assistant that manages email and calendar hands-free. It's built for busy individuals who need an EA but don't have one. Congrats on the launch, @Neha_Suresh_M and @vedhsaka! https://t.co/lQqK1DuUUe
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Designers! If you’ve ever thought about starting a company, now is the moment. RSVP to come to the YC office in SF to hear @zoink’s story of starting @figma, and how you can do it too.
Join us for a fireside with @Figma's Dylan Field (@zoink) and YC's @aaron_epstein as they explore the intersection of design & startups! If you’re a designer thinking about starting a company or a founder looking to build a culture of design at your startup, this event's for
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Today I'm proud to announce @confident_ai 's oversubscribed $2.2m seed round with participation from @ycombinator , @flexcapital, @vermilionfund, @January_Capital, and @RebelFund_VC . @KritinV78426 and I couldn't be more grateful for our investor's trust in our open-source
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We released a new, built in, rerank model in Elasticsearch, and it’s pretty awesome
cRank it up — Introducing Elastic Rerank Model to power up semantic search! Amplify your search experiences through semantic boosting with no required reindexing. Learn more:
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day 5 of what's new in @elastic 8.14: faster vector search *every.single.release* — a quick thread 🧵 1. scalar quanitzation enabled by default 2. up to 6x faster binary comparisons 3. faster python JSON library 4. optimized instances on azure + GCP for vector search
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We’re thrilled to release support for @cohere Rerank 3 directly in Elasticsearch. Rerankers are exciting in general: improved relevance without a heavy lift, and Rerank 3 demonstrates this remarkably. Congrats @aidangomez and team!
We are excited to announce that Rerank 3 is supported natively in @elastic’s Inference API starting today. To start building enterprise search systems with Cohere and Elastic, check out the latest guide:
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Progress on dense retrievers is saturating. The best retrievers in 2024 will apply new forms of late interaction, i.e. scalable attention-like scoring for multi-vector embeddings. A🧵on late interaction, how it works efficiently, and why/where it's been shown to improve quality
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I'll go on the record with perhaps another contrarian opinion: Lucene HNSW is the future and (pure) vector DB vendors are in trouble. Why?
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🕵️Privacy-first AI search🕵️ Data privacy is paramount when deploying applications in an enterprise setting Excited to share a blog post from David Erickson at @elastic showing how to achieve a privacy-first AI search with @LangChainAI and Elastic https://t.co/6glLxLhN8n
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The world of search is changing very quickly. ChatGPT has cemented generative AI's place in making finding data faster. We'll use Elasticsearch and LangChain to build a private trivia bot on fun Star...
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Elastic is a new entrant and has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2021 @Gartner_inc Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. Our enterprise search solution helps customers innovate as they scale. Get the report to find out why → https://t.co/q9nJkpzPga
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Elastic is a new entrant and has been recognized as a Challenger in the 2021 @Gartner_inc Magic Quadrant for Insight Engines. Our enterprise search solution helps customers innovate as they scale. Get the report to find out why → https://t.co/q9nJkpzPga
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The journey to searchable S3 begins! Elastic 7.10 introduces the beta of searchable snapshots on low-cost object stores, a new User Experience app to monitor web performance, GA of #Kibana Lens, and more. See full release notes → https://t.co/Fx26RZlJSj
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This is a once in a lifetime chance, and not in the empty statements kind of way. We're looking a new technical lead for the Elastic Stack #elasticserach #kibana #beats #logstash
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Workplace Search is now generally available with #ElasticEnterpriseSearch 7.7! Equip your teams with a unified experience for searching across @GoogleDrive, @GitHub, @Salesforce + more cloud (and custom) sources. Welcome to the new state of find 🔎 → https://t.co/qwUIzIdwbD
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