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I co-wrote this RL environment FAQ with @datagenproc from @EpochAIResearch:
Frontier labs are investing massively in RL environments, yet most of what happens in this space stays behind closed doors.
@chrisbarber and @js_denain interviewed 18 people from RL environment startups, neolabs, and frontier labs. Here's what they found:
I asked 36 people in AI who to talk to if you're selling a private dataset, like a shut-down startup's data:
19 votes: micro1 (@aliansarinik)
9 votes: Mercor (@BrendanFoody, @adarsh_exe, @suryamidha)
5 votes each:
- Handshake (@GarrettLord, @benmchristensen, @scottringwelski)
- SF Data (@brandonguo, @faizsiddiqii)
4 votes: Surge (@echen)
3 votes each:
- AfterQuery (@CarlosGeorgescu, @spencermateega)
- Ooak Data (@PLouisV, @ThomAub, @adeRL_g)
2 votes each:
- DataVendor (@seeklis, @parth220, @jayendra_ram)
- Grepped (@eriknewsha)
- Nyne (@michaelfanous1, Emad Fanous)
- Standard Data
36 people voted. People couldn't pick a company they work at or founded. Grepped received one negative vote as well. Disclosure: on this list, I'm a small investor in AfterQuery, Fleet, Ionic, Nyne, Ooak Data, Patronus, and SF Data. I didn't vote.
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Chris Barber retweeted
Over the past 2 weeks, we’ve onboarded a few thousand businesses and developers from our waitlist per capacity to try Ultramarine 1 Flash. We were thrilled to see the variety of use cases and grateful for rich feedback to support future generations of the model.
We’re excited to share that we’re releasing the weights and launching the model with early partners, including @FireworksAI_HQ and @baseten, to broaden access.
I asked founders which startup lawyers they've loved working with:
3 votes: Kevin Cergol-Plotkin (@kcp_esq) at Mission Law
2 votes each:
- Damien Weiss (@DamienWeissSF) at Wilson Sonsini
- Jordan McDonnel at Offshoot Legal
- Rob Broderick (@RobxBroderick) at Wilson Sonsini
- Sean Mahsoul at Presidio Legal
1 vote each:
- Alex Kassai at Latham & Watkins
- Andrew Harper at Goodwin
- Andrew Hecht at Strix Law (for M&A)
- Becky Mancero at SPZ Legal
- Ben Potter at Latham & Watkins
- Bochner Law (for IP)
- Carlos Cruz-Abrams at CAS Law
- Chirayu Biyani at Inventus Law
- Cindy Lee at Latham & Watkins
- Craig Schmitz at Goodwin
- Crosby
- Damon Zhangchai at Gunderson
- Darin See at Goodwin
- David Ambler at Paul Hastings
- David Cappillo at Goodwin
- David Hubb at Silicon Counsel
- Harley Brown at Goodwin
- Jade Ruscev at Stamina Law
- Jake Wyrick at Orrick
- Jessica Hubley (@jessicalhubley) at Story LLP
- John Bautista (@JohnBautista) at Orrick
- John Harrison (@john22harrison) at Orrick
- Lang Liu at Wilson Sonsini
- Lester Ang at Wilson Sonsini
- Lianna Whittleton at Wilson Sonsini
- Liz Paisner at General Legal
- Luke Neveu at Goodwin
- Maggie White at Gunderson
- Nick Harley at Gunderson
- Nicole Cadman at Freshfields
- Paul Navarro at Ashurst Perkins Coie
- Peter Werner (@phwerner) at Cooley
- Rajvinder Kaur at Inventus Law
- Roger Royse (@rroyse00) at Haynes Boone
- Seth Gottlieb at Latham & Watkins
- Steve James at Offshoot Legal
- Tim Hance at Hance Fractional Counsel
Co-founders who named the same lawyer count as one vote.
39 people voted. I didn't vote.
The list of 42 startup lawyers picked by founders: frontierlist.com/startup-law…
Chris Barber retweeted
Today, we’re excited to announce Mobasi: digital forensics agents to investigate incidents across endpoints, cloud, and SaaS, and help teams respond to threats quickly.
Introducing Mobasi:
mobasi.ai/blog/introducing-m…
Chris Barber retweeted
I'm excited to launch Relational Capital, a $50m solo GP fund.
I spent the last 8 years as a founder, building @usekojo into the largest US construction procurement platform.
Now I'm backing founders at the earliest stages with $1m-$5m checks.
An abundant future lies ahead 🇺🇸
Chris Barber retweeted
We are releasing Ultramarine 1 Flash, a frontier-class model built for knowledge work. It is open-source and achieves similar performance to Fable 5, while being 60x cheaper.
It was post-trained by a team of 5 for ~$300k all-in. Available on API now, with weights releasing in 2 weeks.
I asked people: "who has hosted great events in SF?"
2 votes each:
- Alicia (@sharedalbums)
- Ben Lang (@benln)
- Dave Fontenot (@davefontenot)
- Ankit Gupta (@AnkitGuptaAI)
- Harbor (@alexgshaw, @ryan_marten)
- Joanne Shang (@JoanneShang)
- Midjourney (@DavidSHolz, @aalleexx)
- Ricardo de Arruda (@notawizard)
- Sarah Chieng (@MilksandMatcha)
- Sukone Hong (@sukonehong)
- Umesh Khanna (@forwarddeploy)
- Vivian Shen (@vivianmshen)
40 people voted. People couldn't pick themselves. I didn't vote.
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