🧵 1) Today launched Seed Fund V to support the next generation of early-stage founders in the US & Europe, and opened applications for the 1st of 3 new Arc cohorts for 2023. 👇
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Are diffusion models the best at text-to-image generation?
NVIDIA's new StyleGAN-T shows that GANs are still in the game, with faster image generation and more control over outputs than diffusion.
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2301.09515
⚙️ sites.google.com/view/stylegan-t
🛠️ github.com/autonomousvisi
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AI will revolutionize how we work, resulting in a new hybrid workforce with humans in deep collaboration with software.
Disruption is inevitable. 👇
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11/ If you’re building a new AI-powered product we’re excited to see what you’re hard at work on. Consider applying to Arc, our seed stage catalyst, or contact me directly:
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10/ The result of all this innovation in AI will be very different than office software on a PC. It will be an extension of ourselves; part assistant, part machine. But we won’t get there without a leap of imagination akin to the PC itself. In the meantime, there’s work to do.
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9/ What does an enduring AI-native company look like?
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8/ Big tech companies with massive investments in AI are not going to let their advantage slip away easily. Yet their business models and scale place them in an innovator’s dilemma that impedes their embrace of the new products and services that could undermine them.
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7/ Contemporary AI promises something new: from working on software, to working with it.
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6/ The great monolithic office software suites from Microsoft and Google have felt like furniture. These are applications we work on rather than with.
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5/ Each of the pillars of the office suite is a potential vector of disruption. But could the office suite itself, based on the paradigm of human readable documents and messages, be disrupted?
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4/ And equally important from our perspective at , where are the opportunities for disruption in this new way of working?
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3/ How will human workers adapt? Will you feel like you have new, trusted digital colleagues, or a bunch of untrained interns to worry about?
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2/ This mix of humans and intelligent agents will increase individual productivity and enable leaner teams to do more, but will also be a lot to manage.
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1/ AI will deliver the biggest changes to the way we work since the PC and the internet. What does an enduring AI-native company look like? Will it follow the playbook of the PC era, or something quite different? Here's my take. 🧵👇
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It's very unfortunate but not surprising that so many of 's Russian users will be blocked by their gov't from freely communicating on our platform.
A few decades ago my own family escaped the Soviet Bloc via secure comm networks – its no wonder they're seen a threat
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Today, we learned that Skiff has been banned in Russia.
There is an urgent need for more privacy-respecting communication tools.
In 7 months since we launched Skiff Mail, we're lucky to count over half a million users 
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Today, we learned that Skiff has been banned in Russia.
There is an urgent need for more privacy-respecting communication tools.
In 7 months since we launched Skiff Mail, we're lucky to count over half a million users 💌
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So cool. Generating code from statutory law and finding actual bugs in the legalese.
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For folks working on AI & law:
"Catala: a Programming Language for the Law"
arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03198
"A straightforward and systematic translation of statutory law into an executable implementation"
Gen AI enables generation of Catala from legal text; many implications
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🧵 1/ We're proud to partner with and to highlight 50 of the top AI companies in the world 🌎 in the 6th Annual Forbes AI50 List 🎉"
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Arc will expand from 2 cohorts to 3 for 2023. The Arc America Spring session will kick off in March, and applications are now open until February 5th. Admitted companies will receive $500K-1M in funding at the start of the program.
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Nominations for our fifth annual #ForbesAI50 are now open globally.
While most spaces have slowed down, AI is rapidly gaining steam. Think your startup is at the forefront of this exciting tipping point in tech? Submit your app by February 10:
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While most of startup world is feeling the squeeze, one sector has been booming: artificial intelligence. Submissions for the fifth annual #ForbesAI50, a definitive list of the world’s most promising AI startups (global for the first time), are now open: trib.al/aUADCyD
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“The proliferation of AI into everyday office software has the potential to create a new kind of hybrid workforce that will increase individual productivity and enable leaner teams to do more.”
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7) Applications for Arc America are open now until February 5th. Learn more about Sequoia Seed Fund V and Arc here: 👇
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6) We continue to be interested in enterprise FinTech and it's broad potential to accelerate commercial progress through faster and more efficient movement of money.
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5) The "oldie but goodie" remains enterprise SaaS - the cloud revolution isn't over, though the bar is raised for smarter, broader, more generalizable software.
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4) The proliferation of AI into everyday office software has the potential to create a new kind of hybrid workforce that will increase individual productivity and enable leaner teams to do more.
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3) Enterprise AI and the data stack are promising areas for the next decade, because the virtuous data cycle is the new network effect and the sky’s the limit.
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2) There are so many areas I’m interested in, but few are as exciting to me as the transformative potential of AI in the workplace.
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Big launch coming Monday 📧🔗🖱️
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"Low Code/No Code" has a whole new meaning in 2023
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Stop complaining, says billionaire investor Charlie Munger: "Everybody's five times better off than they used to be." (via )
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Fusion and Cancer Vaccine Progress! Today is a good day!
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Team is at #slush2022. Join and I for the opening session on tomorrow, Thurs Nov 17, as Doug distills decades of experience for founders building enduring companies in uncertain times.
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A map of over 7000 attendees from all over the world to the the Stanford Graph Learning workshop. Thank you all the speakers and attendees who made this event successful! snap.stanford.edu/graphlearning- Video: youtu.be/GYW286H3SKw
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We're thrilled to lead Kumo’s Series B as the team continues to build their next-generation AI tool to tackle predictive problems in business.
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Two exciting announcements this morning -- at Kumo.AI we've just closed our Series B round (led by Sequoia) and we are rolling out our enterprise AI platform on October 16!
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Gmail can read your email in plain text. We need the alternative of truly end-to-end encrypted email. And now we might finally have it.
Here’s how to use your ENS name to send and receive end-to-end encrypted email with Skiff.
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For the first time, every @ethereum user can now use their @ensdomains or @MetaMask to communicate with the domain @ethereum.email.
All verified, private, and end-to-end encrypted. Read more in our blog
skiff.com/blog/ethereum-
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It’s an honor to lead Kumo’s Series B as they continue their journey to bring predictive AI to business.
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