Rajko Radovanović (@rajko

Rajko Radovanović

2,592 posts

Rajko Radovanović

@rajko_rad

On a sabbatical - alt @rajko_alt

San Francisco, California

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Joined October 2011

Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Jun 27, 2025
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
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Nov 2, 2024
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
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Jan 14, 2022
Replying to @retttx @hdjirdeh and 2 others
I’ve been collecting a landscape, so many great cos, publishing a blog post about this in next couple days… Hadn’t heard of Jitsu and Baserow, let me know if anything else comes to mind, thanks :)
Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
May 18, 2023
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 !!
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Sep 20, 2022
Replying to @simonw
Excel… 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…
Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Dec 11, 2023
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!
Anjney Midha
@AnjneyMidha
Dec 11, 2023
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…
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Jul 18, 2023
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 👇🧵
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Jan 24, 2022
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 👇🧵
The Rise of Open Source Challengers
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
May 22, 2025
. @cursor_ai is 2/2 getting first citation in major model releases by CEOs this week 😎
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Apr 10, 2024
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 🧵👇
udio
@udiomusic
Apr 10, 2024
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
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Mar 25, 2025
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
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Dec 17, 2024
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,
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Dec 17, 2024
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
Guido Appenzeller
@appenz
Dec 17, 2024
🧵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]
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Rajko Radovanović
@rajko_rad
Mar 18, 2024
Courtesy of @ideogram_ai
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