eladgil

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   by eladgil 1y ago

   Hmm, which verticals did I do this in?
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   by eladgil 1y ago

   The majority of companies listed I did not invest in, as well as in some cases areas I have not invested in at all I am actively involved in AI and have been for a few years, so this both gives me insights and obviously conflicts. My hope i
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   Move your company out of Delaware to Nevada or Texas(blog.eladgil.com)

   11 points by eladgil 2y ago|4 comments
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   by eladgil 3y ago

   I agree this is a potential outcome. One big question is generalizability versus niche models. For example, is the best legal model a frontier model + a giant context window + RAG? Or is it a niche model trained or fine tuned for law? Right
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   by eladgil 3y ago

   I think this is already true for things based on diffusion models - e.g. Midjourney, Pika etc For LLMs, Character and ChatGPT are arguably two vertically integrated consumer apps (with some B2B applications for ChatGPT as well)
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   by eladgil 3y ago

   Would love to get any views / counterpoints on these topics. Eg which AI infra approach thrives relative to the big clouds? What new architectures are needed for agents vs transformers? Etc... Lots of stuff to figure out....
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   by eladgil 3y ago

   I forgot to list Bitcoin as another one that launched with no VC money :) It is remarkable how many of the tech companies that have lasted the longest and got the biggest started off so lean... (although BTC of course is not a company)
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   Apoorva Metha on starting Instacart [video](youtube.com)

   1 points by eladgil 3y ago|0 comments
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   by eladgil 3y ago

   Braintrust also provides eval, so nice tie in across both...
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    by eladgil 3y ago

    Agreed on ML being in production in a lot of places and has been quite valuable, particularly for large incumbents. I write about this a bit here: https://blog.eladgil.com/p/ai-startup-vs-incumbent-value I think the di
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    by eladgil 3y ago

    100% agree the theory on AI is old and actually dates back to the early days of "cybernetics". But the real difference is at what point do we considered it sufficiently reduced to practice? I chose GPT-3 but undoubtedly people can
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    by eladgil 3y ago

    The bar for what is "AI" keeps moving. For example plane autopilots would be "AI" in the 1980s, the ability for a machine to win at chess, go, and other games etc.
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    by eladgil 3y ago

    Definitely not my intention to forgot or denigrate the past. Obviously all this exists due to deep learning and prior architectures. What I have been running into is many people and companies are interpreting this as "just more of the
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    Startup Decoupling and Reckoning(blog.eladgil.com)

    81 points by eladgil 4y ago|6 comments
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    by eladgil 4y ago

    I agree that most startups fail. Only a small handful of companies at a given moment are the "breakouts" that are clearly working, and those are the most derisked to join (although not risk free for certain). I think the entire in
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    by eladgil 4y ago

    I definitely agree motivations for starting a company are mixed, and vary a lot from person to person. For the most successful companies I have seen, the motivations have largely collapsed to the ones I listed - with different mix of motiva
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    It depends on who gets vaccinated. For example, Israel focused first on the 20% of the population (largely elderly) who drive 95% of deaths.
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Thanks for the fix! I also changed the title of my blog to remove "VR". Too bad Twitter still doesnt have editable tweets :/
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. We will move away from calling it VR in the future and more about "spatial reality" or "spatial video" most likely
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Yeah we changed names a week or two ago and the logo has not caught up yet :)
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Hmm, I did not mean to abuse the term "VR". The original usage is much broader than just "put on a headset" immersive VR. For example, text-only MUDs & MUSHes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtua
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Yorb was definitely one of the inspirations! Aidan is awesome and he attended one of the events we had.
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Just looking for something space related :)
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    No headset needed. It works best on a laptop or desktop with keyboard right now versus mobile
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Thanks! We view awkwardness as a good sign - it means we are hopefully capturing a part of real social interactions :)
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Thanks! Let me know if any new requested spaces
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Thanks! Let me know if you have any feedback.
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    Show HN: Pluto – In-browser spatial video chat(pluto.video)

    129 points by eladgil 6y ago|64 comments
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    Excited to share a side project I have been working on with my friends at Fluxon (Erad and AJ (@lasersox)) and Katsuya Noguchi (@katsuyan). We got sick of all the Zoom happy hours, birthday parties, and company get togethers. In parallel, s
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    by eladgil 6y ago

    There are large amounts of the vaccine sitting on the sidelines right now. See for example (scroll down and table shows % of doses used by state) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-19-vaccine...