Tag: Venture Capital
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Chinese AI startup MiniMax is going public this week at a $7 billion valuation. But its model flopped in my testing. I ran MiniMax through three tests with real world questions. These are harder to game than benchmarks. Let me show you where MiniMax does well and where it struggles……
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China is about to launch its first AI model IPO, Zhipu AI. Investors may be excited, but Zhipu’s product is weak. China’s first IPO of an LLM startup, Zhipu AI, will start trading Thursday. The IPO is expected to value Zhipu at nearly USD $7 billion. This morning, I ran…
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“A whole new world is opening up to you.” That’s what my great grandma said when I learned how to read. I read 34 books in 2025, the most since college. Here are my favorites… Book of the Year: On Writing by Stephen King On Writing is King’s account of…
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I was laying on the couch, eyemask on, earplugs in, trying to imagine the next great startup. “What about collecting data from factories to train robots?” Well, I found it… It’s called Cortex AI. Cortex AI: Training Industrial Robots Cortex AI gathers video from factories and workshops. It sells that…
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Here’s how a typical angel investor loses $250,000: This is what happens for most angels. They only invest in one company. The founders are not technical, and the product never launches. Their money goes up in smoke. Here’s how we can do better… Focus on Launched Products I never invest…
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The Allen Institute for AI recently released its most powerful model ever: Olmo 3. Olmo is cheap to train, making it perfect for anyone training their own model. Olmo 3 is 2.5 times more efficient to train than Llama 3.1 based on GPU-hours per token. Olmo is also much more…
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Foreign founders raising money in America make the same mistakes over and over. Here are 5 things you need to get right to raise in the US… Humility Doesn’t Play in America “We’ll see how it goes.” I was at a demo day in NYC a while back, listening to…
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I tried to sell software to an AI simulator. I wound up crushing my quota and getting promoted! My biggest lesson: you can’t sell to every buyer the same way. Every day, I’m evaluating founders’ sales skills. The founder is the first salesman for the startup. If they’re good at…
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I ran OpenAI’s new GPT 5.2 through a three round test. It still scores below Grok and Gemini. Some of GPT-5.2’s responses are excellent. But the quality of its answers are inconsistent. Let me show you where this model excels and where it falls short… Round #1: Learning About Needle…
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Venture capital can feel like a secret club with its own language. How do you actually get money? Here are three great ways to get up to speed on how fundraising works… Founder University “Where did he learn to pitch like that?” Founder University, that’s where. I was at a…
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