VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New details about the real costs of training the model (much higher) and the source of the data (distilled from OpenAI against the T&Cs) are slowly surfacing, but it’s clear that Chinese AI startups are here to stay. The company claims its AI models rival those of top U.S. Let’s dig in to the main players.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

In November 2022 I published a post titled “ generative AI will go mainstream when it goes from playful to useful “, and I think you will agree that this transition is in full swing. 2023 was the year generative AI went mainstream The pace of advancement in generative AI has been astounding.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It’s only been a bit over a month since the start of 2025 past year has witnessed seismic shifts in technology, from breakthroughs in generative AI to emerging solutions in climate tech and healthcare.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. AI Attack Surfaces.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Last year there were a lot of voices about the need to ‘slow down’ development of ‘G’d like’ AI (or basically, the pursuit of AGI). The Chip Wars between the US and China is an example of AI inequality, but so is the prevalent use of English as the main language to access LLM technology these days.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek AI sparked a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments. A new foundation model called Magma , claims to be the first for multimodal AI agents. Microsoft unveiled the 3.8B-parameter parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Ron DeSantis have already used fake AI images of each other and we are still 16 months out from the vote. This is an election where the capabilities of Generative AI will quite simply have a massive influence. This week Sir Bob Geldof interviewed me about AI. In this context, politics is exceptionally vulnerable.

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