We @a16z just launched the third batch of Open Source AI Grants (cc @mbornstein) 🎉
This round includes projects focused on LLM evaluation, novel reasoning tests, infrastructure, and experimental research at the edge of capability and cognition:
• SGLang: High-performance LLM
Rajko Radovanović
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On a sabbatical - alt @rajko_alt
- Just tried @perplexity_ai vs chatgpt for planning an excursion in Joshua tree tomorrow and honestly with pplx pro it’s not even a close comparison… long @AravSrinivas
- I'm back !! After a 10 day stint climbing, fly fishing, and generally sleeping in a car around California, very happy to share that I have joined the infra team at @a16z, partnering with teams pushing the boundaries of AI products and research !!
- Replying to @simonwExcel… as would 99% of the world, don’t think This thread is super representative 😅 Once you hit 1M, I’d usually use pandas, but less technical folks I’ve seen use Microsoft Access… also if I wanted to plot things locally I would go to tools like Tableau public version…
- Really excited that my first new investment announcement at @a16z is a partnership with the incredible @arthurmensch, @GuillaumeLample, @tlacroix6 and @MistralAI team! @AnjneyMidha, @BornsteinMatt and I wrote up why we invested, and why open source AI matters!AI should be open. We are so excited to lead @MistralAI's Series A, and partner with @arthurmensch @GuillaumeLample @tlacroix6 and team on their mission of delivering the best open models to the developer community a16z.com/announcement/i…
- 0/9🚨We worked with @replicatehq to make @metaai‘s LLaMa-v2 immediately available to play with and embed in your apps🎁 We also took LLaMa-v2 for a spin, found examples where 13B outperforms chatGPT 3.5 (175B), and not! More context, links and examples below 👇🧵
- 1/ New blog post - Open Source Challengers: ▶️ Brief recap of trends, funding & deals ▶️ Why OSS wins and why that is good for the 🌏 ▶️ OSS expands into the application layer ▶️ The end of closed source software categories? OSS Challengers Below 👇🧵
- 1/ Incredibly excited to announce @BornsteinMatt and we @a16z have partnered w. the amazing @udiomusic team: @charlietcnash, @conormdurkan, @DavidDing, @yaroslav_ganin, and @avincentsanchez 🔥 Even more excited for their beta - see link! x.com/udiomusic/stat… Samples 🧵👇Introducing Udio, an app for music creation and sharing that allows you to generate amazing music in your favorite styles with intuitive and powerful text-prompting. 1/11
00:00 - 𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀? 𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 A sonic weapon was used against peaceful protesters in Belgrade on March 15th. I am assisting a forensic analysis by
- Thanks to everyone who came out to the NeurIPS 2024 "Researchers in the Arena" @a16z happy hour on Friday! Here's the builders that joined us and are pushing forward the field daily (@MistralAI, @bfl_ml, @cursor_ai, @LumaLabsAI, @udiomusic, @fal, @theworldlabs, @WaveFormsAI,
- Speaking of NeurIPS and awesome colleagues…. a personal highlight of the week was @lukemelas from @cursor_ai and I literally **getting flown** back from Vancouver to SF by our very own @appenz 🛫🛬👨✈️ Absolute legend! p.s. I have to disclaim this was not @a16z sponsored or🧵1/5 NeurIPS was a blast. Looking back, my top three take-aways are: 1. Pre-training has topped out (at least for LLMs) 2. Inference-time compute and workflow are the new frontier 3. Auto-regressive vs. diffusion is still open Detailed thoughts below. [photo @venturetwins]






















