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Why you’re more likely to find something worth building in a group than alone.
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If you're looking to work on an incredibly ambitious product with a super talented team full of people you'll actually like, you couldn't do better than @nuance_ai.
We're hiring across the board at @nuance_ai!
Beyond technical roles, we’re looking for a growth and marketing unicorn 🦄 ahead of our big launch!
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“Every great advancement in medicine has come from seeing something that was once invisible.”
@Helmy_L2K, CEO of @GuardantHealth, joined me at @spc to talk about the journey from liquid biopsy to early cancer detection, what makes diagnostics such a difficult business, and how AI could help unlock new applications far beyond cancer.
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Safety and alignment of "models" is the raging topic today.
But the original "safety" debate for AI/MachineLearning was actually in autonomous vehicles!
My first Waymo ride truly felt like a religious experience. It was mind-boggling that we could build technology that actually worked on real roads with all the challenges that entails.
I thought the most interesting part of the talk yesterday was the extensive eval/testing infrastructure that Waymo has built out in order to build the confidence to release 2-ton robots traveling at 30mph through urban environments.
It was awesome to host @dmitri_dolgov @spc yesterday.
I learnt a lot myself and I am excited to release the full video soon.
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More frontier-focused events coming up at SPC include talks with leaders at @anduriltech, @sundayrobotics, @physical_int & more: luma.com/southparkcommons-ev…
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Safety and alignment of "models" is the raging topic today.
But the original "safety" debate for AI/MachineLearning was actually in autonomous vehicles!
My first Waymo ride truly felt like a religious experience. It was mind-boggling that we could build technology that actually worked on real roads with all the challenges that entails.
I thought the most interesting part of the talk yesterday was the extensive eval/testing infrastructure that Waymo has built out in order to build the confidence to release 2-ton robots traveling at 30mph through urban environments.
It was awesome to host @dmitri_dolgov @spc yesterday.
I learnt a lot myself and I am excited to release the full video soon.
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We’re announcing Sentience out of closed beta today.
Your Sentience is your digital twin. It looks, sounds, and writes like you, and it operates autonomously.
This is our first milestone in our quest towards uploaded consciousness.
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Much has been said about cybersecurity, alignment and responsible building. As the technology moves underneath us, more will be said!
None of us have clairvoyant certainty about the future.
What we do know, is that it'll be like nothing we've seen before. That's why we need people like @snsf sharing their beliefs, and view of what is critical!
Really enjoyed having him at @spc_india to talk about all this, and why building the right thing, matters now more than ever!
Full Minus One episode is out now, shared below.
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Important work from @GoodfireAI ⬇
Models know when they’re reward hacking. But they still do it a ton - in 50-96% of rollouts we studied!
We built activation monitors that detect the behavior behind the Hugging Face hack in real time. This can help us stop hacks now - and train future models that don’t cheat. 🧵
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Goodfire's Chief Scientist @banburismus_ talked about reward hacking with @JPBrebner last month at SPC: piped.video/watch?v=YoRuuz2Z…
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The @CarnegieMellon research community showed up for @SPC panel with three leading professor turned founder on turning breakthrough robotics research into IPO-scale companies, if this physical AI boom is real & more
@CMU_Robotics @CMUSwartzCenter
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“I joined @SPC, blocked off three months to see if I could make progress, and made a plan to teach myself machine learning. Starting down a new path is hard. For me, SPC provided an environment where I felt comfortable putting aside my armor of expertise. It gave me a community where I could be a novice again.”
@NotTomBrown, cofounder of Anthropic
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It’s been a packed week so far with @qasar and @BrendanFoody joining us!
Over the last two days, we’ve had Qasar from Applied Intuition and Brendan from Mercor at @spc.
Both were invited and hosted by SPC members—Abe Ankumah and @nickmecklenburg. This is SPC at its best.
The magic of SPC is—and always has been—its members.
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We believe openness to be an advantage for AI safety. Openness provides more visibility into the behavior of models and, most importantly, greater means of turning safety research into actionable and transparent controls than closed-source.
This is why Baseten and Base Labs are building a stronger safety and security standard for open models, with the launch of our safety infrastructure. Base Labs will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models, and Baseten will integrate that work into its deployment infrastructure, live at runtime, and offer this work as a managed service. This will be a standard that is transparent and built into how our models are trained and deployed.
We invite the open-source community to contribute, and are proud to partner with @huggingface and @GoodfireAI to bring this vision to fruition.
Together, we are building an ecosystem of open models that are safe and accessible to all.
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In the right magnetic fields, you can feel a thrumming in the background because peers are primed for the productive entropy that surrounds them. Each day at @spc may bring something completely new.
We, as a community, exist to inspire, sustain, and celebrate experimentation and learning.
See below for some thoughts on why I believe so deeply in talent density...
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People ask what we saw in @profound before there was a Profound to see.
It's now worth $1.8B. One third of the Fortune 100 runs on it.
We didn't find the company. We watched it form.
@thejamescad and @dbabbs met at @spc. Opposite worlds: an Uber maps engineer and a founder with no college degree who willed businesses into existence.
Neither arrived with the idea. The partnership formed first.
Profound has now evolved to become the fastest-growing AI marketing platform.
We've invested in every round since the beginning and are proud to congratulate the team on their $180M Series D, co-led by @sequoia and @kleinerperkins with participation from @lightspeedvp, @khoslaventures, @Saga_Ventures, @EvanticCapital, and SPC.
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Profound started at @spc.
We're proud to be a part of the journey.
Onwards.
Excited to share @profound has raised a $180M Series D, co-led by @sequoia and @kleinerperkins.
Winning in AI Search requires an inhuman amount of work. That is why we are building the AI platform for marketers, underpinned by two things:
1/ Your AI Marketer, a marketing expert that proactively investigates your data, identifies opportunities, and then does the work while you stay in the loop.
2/ Context Manager, a living synthesis of your meetings, email threads, and brand data powering this new teammate. As your brand evolves, so does your AI Marketer.
AI labs are pushing the frontier in fields like engineering, law, and finance. But marketing, one of the economy's most complex and consequential applications, has received far less attention.
That’s why we’re expanding our applied AI research team. We’re bringing together research scientists, engineers, and IOI medalists to advance AI for marketing. Their focus: post-training models for marketing workflows, and building the world's first AI benchmark for real-world tasks in the field.
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