Category: Business
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If you want to know what the AI labs are building, look at their job postings. Here are three of the most unusual, from robotics engineers to Khmer language experts… OpenAI is Building a Consumer Device OpenAI is building out an entire Consumer Devices team. They’re hiring engineers with experience…
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I just made a powerful new tool to help my startups raise money. Here’s how it works… Building a Tool to Connect My Startups With Investors I’ve been having the same problem over and over lately. An awesome startup of mine is raising a round. I want to get them…
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We’ve reached artificial superintelligence in coding and math. Physics is next. AI Is Revolutionizing Coding and Math OpenAI recently solved 377 open math problems. That’s after cracking the Navier-Stokes equation just last month. Earlier this year, Claude found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in common software. One was a 27-year-old bug…
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Jensen just dropped his most powerful open source model ever: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL. It’s as powerful as the frontier models for 10-50x the price. This morning, I ran the new Nemotron through a three round test. From text summarization to coding, Nemotron blew me away. Round #1: Summarizing an…
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The Pyramids of Giza cost around 1% of Egypt’s GDP*. The AI buildout is over 3% of GDP. AI is bigger than the pyramids. The AI buildout also dwarfs the Manhattan Project, the Three Gorges Dam, and Chinese high-speed rail. All were under 1% of their country’s GDP. The only…
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14 companies founded in the 2020’s have hit $500M ARR. 13/14 have a technical founder. This is why I back builders. Analyzing the Top Startups of the 2020’s Here is a list of every company founded in the 2020’s that has hit $500M ARR, along with the founder and CEO’s…
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28 founders asked me for a meeting — on a single Sunday! I can’t meet 28 people a day. Here’s how I decide who gets a meeting… How I Decide Which Founders to Meet To pick which founders I should meet, I look for the most viable startups. Here’s how…
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Some investors commit to a startup, then take forever to send the money. I wrapped up my biggest investment ever in just 3 hours and 14 minutes: 11:14am: SAFE and wiring instructions received 2:28pm: SAFE signed, wire sent Too Many Investors Leave Founders Hanging I’ve seen investors take weeks or…
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Two of my best startups are raising right now. I’m probably their smallest investor. I earn my keep by introducing them to multibillion dollar funds. Let’s take a look inside these two funding rounds… The Hot AI Infra Startup One of my recent investments is growing faster than anything I’ve…
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Grok just pulled my median email response time this week: 8.3 hours. Some VC’s take 3 weeks. When I see that, I think, “Not gonna make it.” I can’t compete with huge VC’s on check size. So I’m developing a different edge: customer service. 8 hours is solid, but I’d…
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