Tag: Finance
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Grok Connectors: Elon’s New Agentic System Excels on Simple Tasks, Falls Short on Complex Operations
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Elon recently dropped Grok Connectors, a new tool to manage your email, calendar and more. Grok excels at basic tasks like email summarization. But for more complex operations, it falls short. This morning, I ran Grok Connectors through a three round test. I had it do everything from inbox management…
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+ Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital, Writing+
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I’ve spent 10 days meeting amazing founders here in Tokyo. I keep seeing the same strengths, and the same challenges. And I have a solution: The US-Japan Hybrid Startup. Move the founders to the United States. Keep the rest of the team in Japan. This gives a startup the best…
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+ Asia, Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Investing, Japan, Startups, Tech, Technology, Tokyo, VC, Venture Capital+
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The best engineers won’t apply to your company. They already have jobs. But now,you can use AI to find them and bring them onboard. Perfectly messages ideal candidates using AI. It learns about their skills, then setsup interviews for you with the best engineers. Within 24 hours, you have 5-10…
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+ Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Finance, HR, Investing, Recruiting, SF, Startups, Tech, Venture Capital, YC+
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Every investor is throwing money at AI. But if you’re building in an unsexy area, is raising money even possible? A frustrated consumer hardware founder recently posed this question to Reddit. He’s seeing VC’s rip huge checks into AI while he’s struggling to raise any money at all. But there’s…
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+ Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Business, Consumer, Engineering, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Founders, Hardware, Investing, Silicon Valley, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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The window for Europe to catch up in AI isn’t just closing — it’s slamming shut. Europe doesn’t have any of the fundamental inputs for AI: Let’s zoom in on two critical factors: money and talent. Here how Europe is falling behind on both… The Capital Drought The largest company…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Austria, EU, Europe, European Union, Finance, Investing, OpenAI, Politics, Silicon Valley, Startups, Stocks, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Moonshot just dropped a new, more powerful Kimi: K2.6. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best open source model I’ve used yet. Moonshot claims that Kimi outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on some benchmarks. Better yet, Kimi is dirt cheap to run, making it a popular choice…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, China, Developers, Finance, Investing, K2.6, Kimi, LLM, Moonshot AI, Open source, Silicon Valley, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Elon has quietly released Grok 4.3 Beta, xAI’s most powerful model yet. I tested it this morning, and it’s the best model I’ve ever used. I put 4.3 Beta through a grueling series of tests this morning. I had it analyze 5,000 venture deals, predict the future of the real…
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+ AI, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude, Elon, Elon Musk, Finance, Grok, Investing, LLM, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital, xAI+
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Demis Hassabis pitched countless investors when he started DeepMind. Almost everyone said no. Why did these VC’s miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime? “Finding initial funding for this was very hard,” Demis later recalled. Demis and DeepMind are leading the race to AGI. They won the 2024 Nobel…
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+ AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, ChatGPT, DeepMind, Finance, Google, Investing, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital+
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“I just use ChatGPT, it’s really good.” I was chatting with a lawyer we’ll call Mary. She’s the assistant general counsel of a late stage fintech. Mary knows all about Harvey and Legora, but she’s not interested. ChatGPT already does everything she needs. Lately, I’m hearing from more and more…
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+ AI, Anthropic, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude, Finance, Investing, Law, Legaltech, OpenAI, Silicon Valley, Startups, Technology, Venture Capital+
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A venture studio is promising you a huge check. But there’s one catch: $20,000 a month in “service fees”. A founder on Reddit is facing this situation right now. “Service fees” are one of several scams that so-called “investors” run on startups. Startupland is the Wild West of capitalism. You…
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Tremendous 