AI’s usefulness in a wide variety of applications creates many opportunities for entrepreneurship. Here, I’d like to share what might be a counter-intuitive best practice that I’ve learned from leading AI Fund, a venture studio that has built dozens of startups with extraordinary

Learn how embedding models are built, trained, and used in semantic search systems in this new short course, Embedding Models: From Architecture to Implementation, created with Vectara and taught by Ofer Mendelevitch. Many LLM apps use a single embedding model for both questions and

I wrote last week about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user — lets you go faster. In this letter, I’d like to share some best practices for identifying promising

There is an chorus of voices across academia, business and even government concerned about California's proposed anti-open source, anti-innovation bill SB 1047. martin_casado has a nice thread summarizing some of these. Thank you Russell Wald, Vishal Misra, Ion Stoica, many

I’m speaking on a panel this Thursday (3pm PT) about Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI). SAI is a potential approach to reducing global warming, and AI climate modeling has an important role to play in understanding its impact. I look forward to discussing the atmospheric

It is very rare for the U.S. Federal government to chime in on state-level legislation. I'm glad that Congressman Ro Khanna is speaking out about why California's proposed SB 1047 is a bad idea. He writes that he is "concerned that the bill as currently written would be

Learn a development pattern to systematically improve the accuracy and reliability of LLM applications in our new short course, Improving Accuracy of LLM Applications, built in partnership with Lamini and Meta, and taught by Lamini’s CEO Sharon Zhou, and Meta’s Senior

When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well. I was recently in Thailand, where I was delighted to see tremendous momentum building in AI (and sip the best

Thank you Rep. Zoe Lofgren for speaking out against the anti-open source, anti-innovation bill SB-1047. She is the ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Her staff concludes: "the problematic core concerns remain: there is little evidentiary basis

Build and customize complex AI applications with a flexible framework in this new short course, Building AI Applications with Haystack. Created in collaboration with deepset, and taught by Tuana, who is the developer relations lead for Haystack at deepset. Generative

I’m encouraged at the progress of the U.S. government at moving to stem harmful AI applications. Two examples are the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ban on fake product reviews and the DEFIANCE Act, which imposes punishments for creating and disseminating non-consensual

I am thrilled to announce that Dan Maloney is becoming the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LandingAI, and I will step into the company’s Executive Chairman role, where I will continue to focus on Visual AI deep tech with our team, including agentic vision. Since Dan joined two

I've been playing with SambaNova Systems's API serving fast Llama 3.1 405B tokens. Really cool to see leading model running at speed. Congrats to Samba Nova for hitting a 114 tokens/sec speed record (and also thanks Kunle Olukotun for getting me an API key!) sambanova.ai/blog/speed-rec…

Really fun hackathon, and it was great to see 30 creative Agentic AI projects, all built in a day. Well done to all the hackathon participants, and thank you Henry Yin , Alex Reibman 🖇️ and AGI House for having me! ·

Explore state-of-the-art multimodal prompting in our new short course Large Multimodal Model Prompting with Gemini, taught by Erwin Huizenga in collaboration with Google Cloud. One interesting insight from this course: with multimodal models, prompt structure matters

After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens). GPT-4 cost $36 per million tokens at its initial release in March 2023. This price reduction over 17 months corresponds to

There’s still time to stop California’s SB 1047 from becoming law. For TIME, I wrote about why this bill would hinder developers and actually make AI less safe. We should be regulating harmful applications of AI, not general-purpose AI models. time.com/collection/tim…

We just released the final two courses of AI Python for Beginners! The complete set of four courses is now available and remains free for a limited time. They teach how to write code (a) Using AI-assistance, which is where the field is going, and (b) to take advantage of

Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub. When he asked me if I would advise South Korea as a member of