The pace of progress in artificial intelligence right now is incredibly exciting. Large, pre-trained foundation models like GPT4, Claude, LLaMA, Stable Diffusion, and similar are disrupting everything from search to protein folding to all categories of design. …

Our investment in Earthly Write code, build it, and test it — this is the most foundational feedback loop within software engineering, and the speed at which one can iterate through this process is arguably the single largest factor contributing to developer productivity. …

Applied large language model startups have exploded in the past year. …

Our investment in Continual — By: Harpinder Singh and Davis Treybig It is hard to quantify the magnitude of impact that machine learning has had on the world over the past decade. Domains like translation, image processing, search, natural language understanding, robotics, and signal processing have been completely transformed as…

Announcing our investment in CipherMode Labs Over the past decade, data infrastructure and data science tooling have improved massively, driven by an increasing acknowledgment that data-driven organizations will vastly outcompete those incapable of incorporating data into the way they make decisions. Yet increasing scrutiny around data privacy and data security…

How statistical decision making has evolved, yet most companies haven’t kept up — Over the past two decades, online, controlled experiments have become an increasingly core part of the way that many of the most successful tech companies develop products. Companies like Airbnb, Booking.com, Microsoft, Google, Netflix, Doordash, and Stitch Fix run tens of thousands of experiments per year, and as a result…

Opportunities and challenges in building “data apps” — Over the last few years, data infrastructure has evolved tremendously. Much has been written about the “modern data stack”, and at this point there are an immense number of startups covering areas like data quality, data monitoring, reverse ETL, and similar. However, one area where less attention has been paid…

Back in the 70s, professional basketball in the United States was bifurcated. You had the NBA we all know and love today, but you also had the “American Basketball Association”. These two leagues had competed for a while, and finally it was looking like the NBA was going to win…

Interns make mistakes sometimes. We’ve all seen reddit threads like this, this, and this explaining funny, embarrassing, and sometimes downright disastrous things interns have done. That said, some things are worse than others, and this story may very well be one of the craziest intern stories of all time. Thad Roberts — The Ringleader Meet…