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Rachel Park
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Rachel Park
@rachelsupark
I joined @benchmark to work deeply with the most extraordinary entrepreneurs, those with the rare curiosity, conviction, and execution to will the future into existence. @ypatil125 @rhythmrg @lindensli embody this completely. We @benchmark are thrilled to have ledGeneralists are useful, but it’s not enough to be smart. Advances come from specialists, whether human or machine. To have an edge, agents need specific expertise, within specific companies, built on models trained on specific data. We call this Specific Intelligence. It's
- What if you could click and fill anything in a photo, using a text prompt? Meet Anything AI🪄📸 It uses SAM to predict the object you want to replace, and Stable Diffusion to fill it with anything you want. AI-powered photo editing, for everyone: anything-ai.com
00:00 - true rocketship growthWe’ve raised our $350M Series C at a $10B valuation from @felicis, @benchmark, and @generalcatalyst. Just 2 years after starting, Mercor is paying $1.5 million per day to experts in our marketplace. We’re creating a new category of work in the AI economy, where software
- what big game actually means for @Stanford @UCBerkeley cs students: reuniting with friends from your summer internship
- I was really bullish on execution environments for AI when we first built Sandboxes more than 2 years ago. Still had no idea how quickly companies like @lovable would take off. This is just the beginning.
- Other than ChatGPT, there have been few—if any—breakout consumer AI apps. Suno isn't a breakout yet, but it's likely the closest: the music AI app nearly quadrupled its ARR to $150M over the last year and also has software-like margins. theinformation.com/articles/music…
- giant milestone after years of quietly building some of the best AI infra out there. this is just the beginning!!!!! 💚It's true – @modal has raised a $87M Series B at a $1.1B valuation to advance the future of AI infrastructure. Thank you to @Lux_Capital, @Redpoint, @AmplifyPartners, and others. Now more than ever, AI demands a complete reinvention of traditional compute infrastructure
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- first @modal_labs meetup in the books! great discussion with @bernhardsson and @thesephist on paradigm shifts in tech, what makes great FOSS, and what the next few years of AI might look like (+ a couple tales from early spotify) thanks to everyone who joined us!
- New Modal example: BoomBot, a Discord bot for fast music generation. Try it out by joining our Discord community: discord.gg/pyxmnxbr Or fork the repo and build your own bot: modal.com/docs/guide/dis… 100% serverless on Modal. Whistle-2-orchestra is here
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