Our car window was smashed and my backpack stolen. Men rolled up in a car wearing ski masks and jumped out. Us and our four kids a few feet away. Laptop, phone, etc all gone. The city is suffering. This is not normal and we should demand better.
fraser
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fraser
@Fraser
vc at @sparkcapital past: head of product at @openai; co-founder/ceo of an AI startup that was acquired by Airbnb
Joined December 2006
- After leading product at OpenAI for two and a half years I’ve made the decision to move on. I’ll be telling the story of modern AI and investing in OpenAI alumni and other remarkable founders. More in the thread below and at:
- text-davinci-003 ChatGPT Whisper v2 Busy week.
- In March 2021 I contemplated leaving @OpenAI to start a company around the ideas that open source and open research were going to win. I decided it was too early but obviously that's no longer the case. Here was my thinking at the time. Who is building this? I Want to help them.
- On the one hand, I feel for @ylecun and Meta/Google researchers. Not seeing your research released in usable products due to big tech bureaucratic bs would be hard to stomach. Yet what they have released has been so fumbled it suggests a profound ignorance about shipping product
- Where do AI optimists hang out?
- If you're an eng or researcher who wants to work on the forefront of AI, I want to help. I know everyone at @OpenAI, Spark has invested in @AnthropicAI, @adeptailabs and others. I am an angel in @trychroma, @perplexity_ai, @dust4ai, @ContextualAI, etc. DM me
- Empire of AI by @_KarenHao is by far the most accurate telling of the era when I was at OpenAI, which was an important few years – from the first commercial step to shortly after the launch of ChatGPT. There is one important piece that is incorrect: the portrayal of @sama He’s
- The Financial Times wrote that "OpenAI ranks as one of the most unusual organizations on the planet". I’ve been here just over a year and I must agree! Here’s a thread.
- I believe strongly that: 1) The best products that will emerge from this moment are “full stack”, with teams training their own models, and the models & UI informing one another. 2) This requires researchers who care deeply about what’s best for the product, including data
- I’m thrilled to share that Spark Capital is co-leading a $22m investment in @elicitorg Today, Elicit’s AI Research Assistant automates the ability to understand what is known. We are excited for a world where Elicit automates the scientific method More in the thread below
- I joined Spark two weeks ago and wired my first investment today. I love entrepreneurship and technology. I love that a small team can ship and change the world. As a former founder, I’m excited to support founders building remarkable productsSpark Capital hires OpenAI’s former head of product in AI push: theinformation.com/articles/forme…
