I work for Microsoft. Previously I was a partner at Eagle River, a private equity firm established by Craig McCaw. I am on the board of directors of Kymeta.
"~3,200 private venture-backed U.S. companies have gone out of business this year, according to data compiled by PitchBook. Those companies had raised $27.2 billion in venture funding. PitchBook said the data was not comprehensive and probably undercounts" @eringriffith story
This podcast with NVIDIA's Jensen Huang is worth listening too. I liked the part where he talks about about how hard a startup is and how doing it twice is even harder. He's always pitching the GPU vs the CPU. Anyone can program now in any language he says.
An important paper among the 1540 AI papers published the week of Feb 2-Feb 10. "LMs can use external tools [eg, a calculator] via API to teach themselves. Toolformer is a model to decide which APIs to call, when to call them and incorporate the results."
