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2.5 year old Long Lake buys the iconic 111-year old Amex GBT. Alex has clearly established Long Lake as the leader in the AI roll up category.
More from our Creation team:
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UK finance teams have waited long enough.
Ramp is now live in the UK.
Sorry we’re late.
ramp.com/uk
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@generalcatalyst is tripling down on @cognition and thrilled to continue to back @ScottWu46, @russelljkaplan, @walden_yan, @stevenkplus1 and the team in the important pursuit of enterprise sovereignty.
Devin is a critical piece of the AI stack with real commitment to help enterprises adopt AI with real ROI
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meet @mostik_ai!
what happens when you put 12 PhDs in one room for four months? first place on the ARC-AGI leaderboard, which I can't say much about while the competition is still running. and this, which I can.
everyone's arguing about whether open models will catch up to frontier models. we think it's the wrong question. here's the one we pose: why does a frontier model have to generate your answer at all, when the only thing you need from it is the reasoning?
we do this by enabling models to communicate in latent space. through our protocol, hidden states pass straight from a frontier model into a small one running on your infrastructure -- no text between them, and neither model is fine-tuned. two models from different families, sharing reasoning, both left untouched.
how do we know it works? we tested it on a setup where a 753B model reads the problem, and a 4B edge-class model writes the answer. with this approach, we get results 80% as accurate as the frontier model, but at 20x faster performance.
we're committed to preventing frontier model lock-in and are already partnering with inference providers to accelerate open-weight adoption. we've done this between 15 of us, in four months, 12 PhDs and a Fields medalist, backed by @generalcatalyst
WIRED has the first external account of the company and the work: wired.com/story/russian-star…
full writeup, the setup, and all the numbers: mostik.ai/read-more
General Catalyst retweeted
I didn’t think autonomy would get nationwide-scale this fast... but here we are 📷!
Our work with @HUMAIN and @TareqAmin_ will bring thousands of trucks to KSA. But this is just the start – followed by robotaxis, ports, mining, construction, and more.
The size, scale and scope is unprecedented! Letssss go! 🚀🚀🚀
General Catalyst retweeted
How can venture better serve founders in an era of extremely concentrated outcomes? This question runs through my Q2 review and my conversation with @packyM:
The Great Concentration
Fixing the K-shaped Economy
Buying a Hospital
What a VC Is Actually For (and capital entrepreneurship)
The Stack as the Antidote
My answer, across all of it: innovate on capital so more companies can thrive, and transform legacy institutions so the benefits of intelligence reach everyone.
read here: hemant-taneja.com
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(1/3) America spends ~$5.3T a year on healthcare and ranks last among peer countries on life expectancy. AI hasn't fixed it, because the wins are isolated tools on a broken whole.
We're trying something different at Summa Health, in partnership with @generalcatalyst.
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Today we're announcing our $320M Series A at a $2.3B valuation, led by @khoslaventures , with @generalcatalyst, @JeffBezos , @ericschmidt, @NicoRosberg, alongside leading researchers from frontier labs and academia.
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Today, Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation.
Last time we grew this fast, we were 1/20th the size.
For 2000 years, business was built on two pillars. Today, a third: intelligence.
It’s your least governed cost. It’s also your single greatest opportunity.
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Martin Scorsese is an advisor to Black Forest Labs.
He's spent six decades shaping how the world sees stories. Now he's helping us shape visual intelligence with human taste and craft at the center.
We sat down with him for a working storyboarding session using FLUX.
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1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc.
Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M.
We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since then, cloud agents have gone from niche to mainstream, and today they are the fastest growing way to create software.
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BREAKING: General Catalyst Releases First-Ever Quarterly Review
Hemant Taneja (@htaneja), CEO of @generalcatalyst
Is GC going public??
We cover:
- GC’s $43B ecosystem
- Why the software buyout model is broken
- Anthropic’s Series G at $380B
- $5B India commitment
- Buying Summa Health, hospital in Akron
- Anthropic–DoW controversy, Mythos & Project Glasswing
- @nikesharora joining the GC board
- “Tech Lash 2.0.”
HUGE thank you to @deel Co-Founder & CRO @shuooo Wang for the introduction to Reggie & the GC team, I am SO happy we were able to make this happen so quickly! What a treat.
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Hemant Taneja, CEO at General Catalyst
(01:21) Present state of General Catalyst
(05:08) Seed, Creation & the Customer Value Fund
(06:54) The purpose behind GC’s quarterly review
(12:26) The biggest AI themes right now
(15:06) How AI is changing investing decisions
(19:25) Why seed & Series G require the same conviction
(22:55) Why does he holds two titles at once?
(25:17) Why Silicon Valley glorifies the wrong founders
(27:52) Building an AI-native hospital
(30:20) Managing funds through bubbles & hype cycles
(33:13) How funds sell ownership stakes
(34:59) Why the software buyout model is broken
(38:44) Vista's new software buyout debt fund
(39:20) Global Resilience vs. American Dynamism
(41:49) GC’s $5B bet on India
(45:48) What global investing teaches you
(47:09) The four forces of tech lash
(50:12) Anthropic, Mythos & the Pentagon
(54:06) Is GC going public?
(55:26) The Puka shell necklace era
I've been posting less and writing more. I've found it helpful to slow everything down and take the time for proper reflection.
Today I'm putting out a review of the last quarter:
Growing AI Anxiety
Turning LLMs into Computers
Anthropic and the Department of War
Iranian Conflict
The Incoming Techlash
It's easy to feel like the response to this is for tech to "get tough"
But I want to encourage the next generation to do something simple: keep your soul
General Catalyst retweeted
I've been posting less and writing more. I've found it helpful to slow everything down and take the time for proper reflection.
Today I'm putting out a review of the last quarter:
Growing AI Anxiety
Turning LLMs into Computers
Anthropic and the Department of War
Iranian Conflict
The Incoming Techlash
It's easy to feel like the response to this is for tech to "get tough"
But I want to encourage the next generation to do something simple: keep your soul
General Catalyst retweeted
1/4 LLMs solve research grade math problems but struggle with basic calculations. We bridge this gap by turning them to computers.
We built a computer INSIDE a transformer that can run programs for millions of steps in seconds solving even the hardest Sudokus with 100% accuracy
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This is not politics as usual. As investors, innovators, leaders, and citizens, we need to come together to preserve our democracy, the rights set forth in our country's Constitution, and our shared humanity. All of these serve as the foundation for our modern society, human progress, and innovation.
What we are seeing in Minnesota is a threat to those core tenets and to the promise of America. Without confidence in the fundamentals -- human rights, the legal process, and the privilege and responsibility of our government and its leaders to protect all people -- the future is at stake. That impacts all of us here in the U.S., and globally.
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"You ask what was the supercharge over the last couple of years, well it was @GeneralCatalyst that changed the game for us, and their Customer Value Fund.
We realized the capital markets aren't funding CAC ... and General Catalyst solved that."
(at 51m)
youtube.com/watch?v=DcLy_VJH…
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1/6 Palantir sued 3 of Percepta's employees (including me) last week. They're trying to bully us. We should all be concerned when a $400B+ giant is attacking a 35-person start-up over baseless allegations.
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Percepta is hiring for research (RL, modeling, OR), engineering, and product roles in Europe and on the US East Coast. A few of us are at NeurIPS this week. Reach out to me, @EugeneVinitsky, @ChristosTzamos, @justintchiu, or @zzzzgq to learn more!
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.@generalcatalyst's @__kvm on growth:
"We help putting fuel to the fire. We cannot create the fire ourselves. The best people to create that fire, to figure out how to grow are the founders."
"Most companies are massively under spending. What I mean by that is they need to run more experiments."
Full episode: thein.fo/48o0s4v