Sophia Luo
@sophia_luo_
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investing in AI-native apps and infra @GreylockVC | prev eng & product @character_ai, @scale_AI | @MIT CS
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2022
“ All of a sudden, the text box that was in the SMS channel that was pretty much worthless 4 years ago is now one of the most important interfaces that a consumer has with a brand.” @asturnerr joins @mduboe & @rishabhmjain on a recent episode of The Intelligent Marketer pod to
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recently co-hosted an afore x greylock founder dinner with @sophia_luo_ - thanks to rho for making it happen an an amazing house in haight-ashbury one attendee mentioned they’re in a “typewriting club” where they meet on weekends to write with actual typewriters - so cool
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Voice has emerged as a widely adopted modality in applied AI—and is deceptively difficult to get right. Greylock partner @sophia_luo_ deep dives into the technical architecture of building voice agents. Key learnings in 🧵👇 https://t.co/gWwXNGmXcy
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When it comes to ads, what does @eric_seufert think a new AI-native unit should look like? 1/Full screen, non-skippable & interstitial for the free tier 2/Real-time display insertions 3/Tower unit on the side of the results cc: @mduboe @rishabhmjain
https://t.co/BpxapKYkph
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The next user research platform will be fully reimagined end-to-end by AI. Greylock partner @sophia_luo_ deep dives into this topic, covering: - Why now - Incumbents & startups in the market - Buyers' POV - What the next gen AI platform will look like https://t.co/PWUEcnbH26
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Eng students: are you looking for an internship or full-time role at a top startup? @GreylockVC's Techfair is happening this July in SF. The deadline to apply is July 13. Don't miss your chance to connect directly w/ founders & hiring teams. https://t.co/zUMlMdBC27
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After it took days to book an HVAC appointment in the sweltering heat, I built @Netic_AI: the AI revenue engine for businesses that keep America running. Silicon Valley ignored essential services for too long, so we raised $20m from @foundersfund, @greylock, @mavolpi to fix it.
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Excited to announce @GreylockVC Change Agents, a new speaker series exploring the cutting edge of Agentic AI. Our kickoff event is an agentic apps CEO panel with: -@_mohansolo from @codeiumdev -@thejessezhang from @DecagonAI -@spirosx from @resolveai
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Happy Pi Day to everyone but particularly to @sophia_luo_ @sherwinwu and @SarahChieng who are organizing @GreylockVC's Pi Day MIT Happy Hour tonight! Excited to be the only Uchicago plant in a room of 200+ MITers.
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Sometimes we forget that we can play games that aren't poker too -- hosted the inaugural @GreylockVC chess night where the funnest chess variants were played like bughouse, hand & brain, and more! 🥳🥳🥳 And of course we had one-of-a-kind Greylock chess totes 🙌 It's been
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reading these code editor war comments in my feed 🍿throwback to when they duked it out irl @cursor_ai @codeiumdev
Don't ever let your memes be dreams 😤 Last week, we hosted our ⛵️Battle of the Cs🌊 bubble soccer event where we brought together people from @cognition_labs @codeiumdev @cursor_ai @cartesia_ai @character_ai and one @GreylockVC AI company in stealth that also starts with C.
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Blessed to have a new cafe in your building Cursed to have it be the hottest cafe in SF
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Join Netic’s pit crew. We are engineering the Formula 1 car for our customers, bringing them forward a half a century just like the video below. As a small and mighty team, we’re building the AI revenue engine for essential services industries that keep America running. More to
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Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at
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From seed to Series C, it’s been incredible to watch Baseten build the best infra for AI teams. Huge congrats to the team!
2025 is the year of inference. We're thrilled to announce our $75m Series C co-led by @IVP and @sparkcapital with participation from @GreylockVC, @conviction, @basecasevc, @southpkcommons and @lachy. We're also excited to add Dick Costolo and Adam Bain from @01Advisors as
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Calling all MIT alum in tech! @sherwinwu (MIT 2014), @SarahChieng (MIT 2023), and I are hosting a MIT Pi Day reunion -- RSVP for an evening of celebration with drinks, light bites, and of course pie!
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We invite you to join us for an evening of connection, celebration, and of course pie! Sherwin (MIT 2014, OpenAI), Sarah (MIT 2023, Cerebras), and Sophia (MIT…
It's true that MIT is indeed...very nerdy. MIT admissions are announced March 14 and alumni reunion is 3.14 years after graduation. To celebrate, @sherwinwu (MIT 2014), @sophia_luo_ (MIT 2020), and I (MIT 2023) are excited to host this year's MIT Pi Day reunion. All alumni,
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Hosted a @GreylockVC x @harkerschool Alumni happy hour in SF last Thursday. As a Harker alum myself, I'm proud to be part of such a talent-dense and tight-knit community. Many of us hadn't seen each other since high school graduation -- it was truly inspiring to reconnect.
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The number of founders I see that are "ex @scale_AI " and end up just being RLHF contributors is.... well it's more than one or two, including some recent YC folks 👀 Kids are actively trying to farm the tailwinds and convince VC's they're the next @alexandr_wang
> founder (from a well known accelerator xd) [will remain unnamed bc ppl say i'm too much of a hater] posting cringe on linkedin > swe @ scale ai > "oh cool, lemme see what team they were on" > bruh they were a labeler > stolen valor??? does anyone actually backchannel anymore??
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