Who has the best list of AI startups-- especially pre-seed, seed, Series-A stage AI startups?

Hi folks, Just wrote a piece about contextual optimization. As LLMs turn data processing into semantic processing, we believe ETL processes will turn into “ECL” (“Extract-Contextualize-Load”) processes. We explore what “ECL” could mean in the context of LLM information retrieval / RAG processes look like, and what the history of ETL can teach us about the development of the ECL industry, and the supporting tooling that would likely emerge. https://medium.com/enterprise-rag/improving-llm-information-retrieval-etl-to-ecl-extract-contextualize-load-12a4ac259faa

👋 Hi everyone! Looking forward to the channel and offering value. I'm an edtech founder, NSF grantee, research is on researchgate on closing the skills gap.

Hey folks, I know we're all GPU poor but I'm looking for a used RTX 3090 if you're GPU rich and trying to sell one :)

Hey everyone- I wrote a piece about the economic viability of generative AI models, ethical and regulatory considerations that fuel them, and how we can rationalize their respective valuation multiples. I explore how in the long-term, for these startups to justify their lofty valuations, they will need to show not just improved performance in their response to user-generated prompts, but demonstrate new and innovative ways to regulate safety levels. Thoughts and comments welcome!

Has anyone looked into AI resistant captchas? Looking for anything to read on it, research papers etc.

What do you guys think of the GPU aggregation space? I've seen a number of startups that aggregate unused/underutilized GPUs with their own unified software API/SDK layer. Given Nvidia's no end in sight demand, this seems to be a good space to be in. Any thoughts? 🤔

Hi everyone! Has anyone adopted referral programs in their digital products? I am looking into alternatives and would really appreciate a heads-up from someone who has already launched a referral program.

My friend Jessica is seeking a technical co-founder for a pre-seed startup. After raising VC capital in 2023 and launching a prototype, she pivoted from the initial idea, now exploring new opportunities in legal tech and fashion tech, with a focus on AI solutions. With a background in law, fashion, sales, fundraising, and strategy, Jessica offers co-founder equity and a salary. Ideal candidates should be AI engineers with a passion for technology, product-minded, experienced (3+ years), and ready to embrace a founder's journey in a VC-backed startup. She emphasizes a scrappy attitude and the willingness to ship fast. Jessica invites interested parties to contact her and encourages sharing her search within their network. if you are interested contact her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-sydney-cohen/

Hi friends! A couple of great founders I know Carin & Hazim (ex-Meta/Wharton/MIT) are building CoffeeSpace, a Tinder/Hinge-like app that matches folks looking for cofounders or just exploring ideas in the tech space and beyond. If you’re currently looking/exploring, check them out at https://coffeespace.com/ or you can download the app directly through the link(s) below: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coffeespace-find-a-cofounder/id6474048489 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coffeespace.cofoundermatch

Do any of you know good designers for slide decks? Looking to pay someone for a few hours to take a deck, give feedback and make it look snazzy

Stanford CS 25 Transformers Course (Open to Everybody | Starts Today) Tl;dr: One of Stanford's hottest seminar courses. We are opening the course through Zoom to the public. Lectures start today (Thursdays), 430 550pm PDT, at Zoom link. Talks will be recorded and released ~2 weeks after each lecture. Course website: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/ Interested in Transformers, the deep learning model that has taken the world by storm? Want to have intimate discussions with researchers? If so, this course is for you! It's not every day that you get to personally hear from and chat with the authors of the papers you read! Each week, we invite folks at the forefront of Transformers research to discuss the latest breakthroughs, from LLM architectures like GPT and Gemini to creative use cases in generating art (e.g. DALL-E and Sora), biology and neuroscience applications, robotics, and so forth! CS25 has become one of Stanford's hottest and most exciting seminar courses. We invite the coolest speakers such as Andrej Karpathy, Geoffrey Hinton, Jim Fan, Ashish Vaswani, and folks from OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, etc. Our class has an incredibly popular reception within and outside Stanford, and around 1 million total views on YouTube. Our class with Andrej Karpathy was the second most popular uploaded by Stanford in 2023 with over 500k views! We have significant improvements for Spring 2024, including a large lecture hall, professional recording and livestreaming (to the public), social events, and potential 1-on-1 networking! The only homework for students is weekly attendance to the talks/lectures. Also, livestreaming and auditing are available to all. Feel free to audit in-person or by joining the Zoom livestream. We also have a Discord server (over 1500 members) used for Transformers discussion. We open it to the public as more of a "Transformers community". Feel free to join and chat with hundreds of others about Transformers!

Hey all - Im with Pinecone and will be in LONDON on the week of April 23rd! I would just love to meet folks and chat, anyone up for connecting? Im eager to make contacts outside of the SF bubble (I know Cerebral Valley has a directory for the UK, so figured I would throw my hat in the ring)

Hi folks, does anyone have an idea how to implement role-based access control on RAG? Is there any library or product that anyone can share?

Hey all, a few friends and I are doing discovery and it would be very appreciated if you could fill out a short anonymous survey! https://forms.gle/krHJzUcQZN2wjxdK8

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Does anyone here use Notion for their company? If so, I have two questions: 1. How many teamspaces do you have? Sales, Eng/Prod, General? (I think I created too many and now it's hard to find what I'm looking for) 2. Do you link Github to your Notion? (Just deeplinks to repos, or pull requests? Do you have a way to link to Milestones?) Our renewal is coming up, and I think I can switch to a 6-month free startup trial and consolidate all my teamspaces in one fell swoop. But I don't want to have any regrets!

Does anyone know the right person at AMD to talk about for startup/VC partnerships? We have relationships with many of the others but this one is missing for us and we have a current opportunity with a portco. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Hey @Laura Buhler, I'll broker an intro in separate thread ...

Hey, all!! Asking one quick ask and some resource below 🙂 Ask • Know anyone who is sharp, affordable, and can help early-stage founders with PR? Ideally looking for a solo PR consultant, or a small group of folks (not a big agency). I'm looking for someone smart and responsive — I care much less about experience and existing PR rolodex. Looking for someone to help a number of my portfolio founders Resources • HR / bookkeeping / ops consultant who gets in the weeds: I recently started working with Natalie of OpsFox as an HR consultant. She's currently helping me set up a new S-Corp, find a bookkeeper, and figure out healthcare, dental insurance, and 401Ks. We only recently started working together, but I've been deeply impressed by her responsiveness, kindness, and ability to get stuff done. Ping me if you'd like an intro. https://www.linkedin.com/in/landofdeke/ • Media production for podcasts and in-person events. I have loved working with Justin via his agency EyesUp. I use him for all my in-person events and any podcast I record — he enables us to livestream across multiple channels, brings in additional lighting and multiple cameras so we look incredible, and then does all the editing of the resulting video, and multiple cameras so we can get different angles (eg with our event a few weeks ago: ). He helped me start to put out cute little YouTube "shorts" as well (eg this one has 3K+ views: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YBBmbAFXPP4). Ping me if you'd like an intro. • Referral code for Kindred, private home-swapping network: Kindred is a members-only home exchange network, where you earn credits by making your own home available for others to stay in, and then use those credits to stay in vetted homes all over the world, for a fraction of the cost. To join the network, apply here and use my code ALI.ROH to get priority review. • Incredible hairdresser in SF for regular cuts and events (men and women). My incredible friend/hairdresser Amy is open to a few new clients, and I couldn’t recommend her highly enough. I get haircuts with her quarterly, and she also gives me blowouts for before big events (see her salon's Instagram). Ping me if you'd like an intro.

Anyone want to test AI for recruiting? https://www.loom.com/share/03b296b4601c4f7f9c8808b09e6bf9af?sid=470cecbe-a806-4c92-abf5-f33e460a6d4b

Hey guys, David here - We are trying to take a stab at writing a weekly newsletter about AI founders who are building lean, mean and kick ass companies. In short we want to help readers discover the AI unicorns of tomorrow, today along with the hottest trends in AI. Sam Altman is preaching that there will be solo founder unicorns that will start popping up in the near future. We want to be the publication that finds them for you first. Newsletter with consist of: • Weekly Founder Story / deep dive • 3 burning X's (Tweets) that everyone is talking about • Weekly AI Headline Recap • New Emerging AI Trends • Top 5 AI Companies Launched This Week • 5 Highest-Valued Companies - With the Lowest Headcount Let me know what you think or how we can make it better? homebase.so

Hi there! Are any of you running a VC scout program or scouting for a VC firm? I would like to set up a scout program for my firm, but I don’t know where to start. I would love to pick your brain!

Anyone have experience filing a patent? Would love a quick chat regarding referrals for lawyers, agents etc. Much appreciated.

The first lecture of our Stanford CS25 V4 Transformers course is now released! Check it out

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. We gave a brief intro and overview of the history of NLP, Transformers and how they work, and their impact. We also discussed recent trends, breakthroughs, applications, and remaining challenges/weaknesses of Transformers. Lastly, Div talked about AI agents. This is a super useful lecture for those who want a more broad overview of Transformers and the field right now! Slides are here. We had a full room (approx. 200 folks in the audience) and over 300+ on Zoom! P.S. Lectures are on Thursdays at 430 550pm PDT at Gates B01 and through Zoom, open to all. Talks will be recorded and released ~2 weeks after each lecture to the same YouTube playlist. We also have a “Transformers community” Discord server (over 4000 members). Check out our course website for more info!

Hi everyone! I'm sharing on behalf of a friend I think highly of who is helping technical founders get off the ground by driving revenue growth through scaling outbound/inbound sales engines. The deck attached details his team's services and backgrounds across building/scaling early-stage businesses as founders/investors. Shoot me a note at John@investiture.ai or Mikal at mikal@tenpointlabs.com for more information. (Heads up that I'm not very active here.)

Hello all, is anyone here building in the mental health space? Would love to chat about privacy and on device data storage. Please feel free to DM.

Hey all — I’m investigating how much of a pain export controls are across a variety of industries as part of my time at Entrepreneur First. I was wondering if this channel could be a good place to ask for intros. More specifically, I’d hope to speak to: • heads of compliance • production managers • compliance officer/associate/analyst

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