Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Partner @ Sequoia

Palo Alto, CAJoined August 2017

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 17

Introducing the

@sequoia

Gen AI Market Map!🌎 We’ve decided to map out this emerging frontier, thanks to all the contributions and feedback we’ve received. This space is moving quickly – this map is a living document, so keep the suggestions coming! Who else should we include?

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Gen AI Picture Day 🎥 Had way too much fun playing around in

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Gen AI is unleashing a creativity explosion ⚡️

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Nitrosocke

@Nitrosocke

Oct 27

New Model out now! Check it out on @huggingface Link in the description

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 24

I’m also on cloud nine from a week of conversations with incredible AI founders!

and I are holding

AI Office Hours as a way to meet more founders & builders: please sign up here!

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Sequoia AI Office Hours

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Again, this is a living document, so please keep sending tips and edits over :)

This map is still far from complete & far from perfect. We had the difficult task of filtering through a long list of amazing companies and narrowing it down to this set. I'm sure I made mistakes along the way. If there's something I overlooked, please DM me!

We've tried to keep this map high signal:noise and only included apps where generative AI (defined as LLMs or other unsupervised learning + generative) is core to the product experience. We also couldn't fit every single image or copy generation app.

As promised: here is our

@sequoia

Gen AI market map V2! Very thankful for the hundreds of folks who wrote in additions and edits. AI people are amazing 🥹

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🥹🥹🥹 It was an absolute joy talking to

@bizcarson

@protocol

about how we co-wrote our

@sequoia

Gen AI thesis with GPT-3 (and how I am bad at Twitter, among other things). Thank you, Biz!! PS: hard at work updating the market map, ready monday :)

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Sequoia’s Sonya Huang: Generative AI hype is 'absolutely justified'

She’s bullish on generative AI given the “superpowers” it gives humans who work with it.

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not sure if we’ll call it “infinite text effects” or “Neural Fonts” or “generative-font treatments” or…- but that’s the easy part. here’s a glimpse of Generative-AI to transform any font you’re using…into rose petals, sake bottles, whatever - coming to

@AdobeExpress

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Replying to

We’ve long partnered with outlier founders in the cheese and bread space.

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 19

so cute... can't wait for gen ai emojis to replace the current set 🥹

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proxima centauri b

@proximasan

Oct 19

I trained a #stablediffusion model with dreambooth to make some cute icons! you can find the whole set and the model here: proximacentaurib.notion.site/bonus-material

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 18

when our beautiful data infra diagram gets superimposed with a duck 🦆 #quack

@duckdb

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@josh_wills

Oct 18

The Mallard Data Stack

Look forward to game universes created by supercomputers using generative AI #StabilityAI

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 17

Update: grateful & overwhelmed by the sheer volume of additions, corrections, and support on this map! Getting to work organizing this all into an updated map. Will be back soon. Keep the suggestions coming :)

Who did we miss? Let us know! DMs open. 🦾

These apps provide an interesting glimpse into what the future may hold. Once you see a machine produce complex functioning code or brilliant images, it’s hard to imagine a future where machines don’t play a fundamental role in how we work and create.

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Sep 19

We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play.

Excited to share our musings on the space here: sequoiacap.com/article/genera

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 17

Speech Gen allows us to immerse ourselves in experiences that bring out the emotional and expressive qualities of human speech.

@play_ht

podcast.ai is bringing some of these legends to life in podcast form. We're deep in the uncanny valley with this one.

Video - one of the richest but hardest-to-master mediums of communication - is getting democratized.

@runwayml

is making it possible for anybody to create Hollywood quality movies with text-to-video, text-based colorization and more.

runwayml.com

Runway - Next-generation creation suite | Everything you need to make content, fast.

Discover advanced video editing capabilities to take your creations to the next level.

Design - from interiors/architecture to software to physical products - is up for reinvention. Moodboarding, inspiration, iteration should become drastically faster and better. Less time wasted pushing pixels or organizing artifacts manually.

@diagram

is a nice example here.

Gaming experiences may be generated by users or machines on the fly – with AAA level quality.

@AiDungeon

was one of the first projects to imagine the experience using text-based models, and image and 3D should be ready soon. Here is “Raccoon Heist” from

It’s exciting to think about how AI can help rapidly concept fantastic new worlds in film, television, and more.

@SALT_VERSE

is creating a 70s style scifi multi-plot film, built entirely with generative models.

Text-to-image models make us feel like the next Picasso or Studio Ghibli.

each allow us to create images with a different mood or timbre. Up next: more sophisticated editors, social experiences, search engines, and more.

Coding is the highest leverage form of language, so generative coding may just be the holy grail of Gen AI. The early results from

@github

and

@replit

suggest a future where anybody with product sensibility can generate a fully functioning app.

replit.com

Replit: the collaborative browser based IDE

Run code live in your browser. Write and run code in 50+ languages online with Replit, a powerful IDE, compiler, & interpreter.

Now that machines can read, they can auto populate companies' knowledge bases with semantic understanding. This means Gen AI can answer questions and file and retrieve documents - a smart, self organizing workspace.

Glean is the work assistant and enterprise search solution for today’s teams. Search across all your company's apps to find what you need and discover what you should know.

Marketers can’t have all the fun – the rest of us get writer’s block too. What about a new text editor with generation at its core? Think Google Docs that can generate entire paragraphs for you.

@Get_Writer

#Moonbeam #Lex are exploring this space.

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Home

Discover Writer, the AI writing platform for teams. Craft clear, consistent, and on-brand content everywhere. Try it free today.

Copywriting tools like

make it easy to generate blog posts, product descriptions, landing pages, Tweets, and more. Who needs a $200K ghostwriter when you have copy.ai? 👀

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Copy.ai: Write better marketing copy and content with AI

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Here are some of the projects that get us excited:

Prediction: As AI changes many professions, the human craft will be become more highly valued. As the cost of essentials go down, we'll pay a premium for the story behind a well-crafted object, the human touch, the love that went into it.

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Oct 7

We've updated the timeline to reflect more recent conversations with very smart people. In all likelihood, this Gen AI future is coming faster than we originally wrote. Keep the feedback coming! 🦾

went on a huge dreamstudio bender yesterday, re-running nearly every prompt i've ever done in disco. Here's a thread of some awesome pics and some thoughts 🧵

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Wow this was fast and looks *really* good!!! DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion openreview.net/pdf?id=FjNys5c

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Sep 29

The rate of technological progress in AI is mind bending. Need to update our landscape already to move the timeline up 🙈 what else did we miss??

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Meta AI

@MetaAI

Sep 29

We’re pleased to introduce Make-A-Video, our latest in #GenerativeAI research! With just a few words, this state-of-the-art AI system generates high-quality videos from text prompts. Have an idea you want to see? Reply w/ your prompt using #MetaAI and we’ll share more results.

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Sonya Huang

@sonyatweetybird

Sep 28

Can't wait to chat data apps with

@SnowflakeDB

@ttunguz

. Let it SNOW! ☃️❄️

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Snowflake

@SnowflakeDB

Sep 28

We're excited to have @sonyatweetybird, General Partner @sequoia, speak at #SnowflakeBUILD! Save your seat today: okt.to/QmwGTH

It’s selfish not to go for broke—if you’re planning on giving it all away in the end, anyway.

@FTX_Official

founder and CEO

@SBF_FTX

is on a mission to maximize the total happiness of the future

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Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old… a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.

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We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play. 👽🤠 Excited to share our musings on the space here:

sequoiacap.com

Generative AI: A Creative New World

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legendary! thank you for the greatest inspiration,

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A new collaboration. @zoink @figma @adobe @andrew__reed

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🚨 Applications for

Arc Americas are now open!!! Would love to see some incredible LATAM founders in this cohort. Apply at arc.sequoiacap.com and send promising founders my way over DM. 🌈🪅

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Jess Lee

@jesskah

Jun 27

Arc Americas is 9/12-10/28, with Weeks 1 & 7 in Sequoia’s Menlo office, a field trip in Week 4, the rest remote. You receive $1M funding and learn topics like Customers, Product, GTM, Culture, Business. We blend lectures, case studies, hands-on practice and a group field trip.

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This year we unveiled Arc, Sequoia’s seed-stage catalyst that helps outlier founders build enduring, category-defining companies. Today, we’re thrilled to open applications for the first Arc Americas cohort. Apply here through July 13

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Arc Americas: Build for the Next Decade

Applications are now open for the first Americas cohort of Arc, our seed-sage catalyst for outlier founders.