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Ashu Garg reposted thisAshu Garg reposted thisIMPORTANT UPDATE: Cohesity is honored to join NVIDIA (one of our strategic investors & partners), as one of the founding members of their important initiative that CEO Jensen Huang is driving - OPEN SECURE AI ALLIANCE FOR AI SAFETY & SECURITY - with 50+ key cybersecurity & tech leaders in the industry. We are the first data protection and data security company to join and fully support this initiative. More here: https://lnkd.in/gRDHF9cq
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Ashu Garg reposted thisIs AI too dangerous to distribute, or too dangerous to concentrate? I weigh in on Jensen’s letter, the rise of Chinese open models, and why the U.S. should compete by building - not by banning.The case for open models and against a closed AI futureThe case for open models and against a closed AI future
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Ashu Garg reposted thisAshu Garg reposted thisOver the years, folks keep reaching out to me for questions, guidance on startups, entrepreneurship, HR tech, AI and all kind of things. While I want to be able to talk to them, it has been very hard to answer to everyone. Everytime I say no, I feel bad. Well now, with AskSila, I don't have to worry about that. Anyone can ask any question to my twin - https://lnkd.in/eyCXNg2S . It is my digital extension. There times it is worse then me, more often, it is better. Not just that, if you want to talk to real me :) you can also book a meeting with me through this. Yes, I have setup a nominal fee just to ensure that only serious folks are booking the meeting. https://lnkd.in/eyCXNg2S Viven AskSila #digitaltwins
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Ashu Garg reposted thisIs AI too dangerous to distribute, or too dangerous to concentrate? I weigh in on Jensen’s letter, the rise of Chinese open models, and why the U.S. should compete by building - not by banning.The case for open models and against a closed AI futureThe case for open models and against a closed AI future
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Ashu Garg shared thisIs AI too dangerous to distribute, or too dangerous to concentrate? I weigh in on Jensen’s letter, the rise of Chinese open models, and why the U.S. should compete by building - not by banning.The case for open models and against a closed AI futureThe case for open models and against a closed AI future
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Ashu Garg shared thisAnyscale was just acquired by Nscale. Congratulations to Robert Nishihara and the team. In 2016, it was just Robert and a few PhD students at Berkeley, working in their professor Ion Stoica's lab. Back then, Robert and his labmates were doing AI research into new machine learning algorithms. Every algorithm they created had to be tested but the tests were too big for a single computer. So they ran them across many GPUs in the cloud. But making many GPUs work together was brutally hard. They have to share data, coordinate and handle crashes. That meant building a distributed system - and no good off-the-shelf tool existed. Before Anyscale, every researcher built their own from scratch. Some of the smartest people in AI were spending their time on plumbing instead of research. Robert and his labmates built the fix and open-sourced it. They called it Ray. You write normal Python on your laptop. Ray handles the 100s of machines behind the scenes. Starting a company was never their goal. They just wanted to make distributed computing easier. But by 2019, Ray had taken on a life of its own. Companies were adopting it and asking for support no research lab could provide. And with graduation approaching, they faced a choice: let Ray plateau, or go all in. So they founded Anyscale to commercialize Ray. The same playbook Ion and the early Databricks team had run with Spark and Databricks. I invested in Databricks' seed round. I'd watched Ion's lab produce Spark. When the same lab produced Ray, it was impossible not to back them. Foundation invested in Anyscale at the Series B and again at the C. When Anyscale started, Ray had one real production user. Today it runs inside OpenAI, Instacart, Spotify, DoorDash, Airbnb, Uber, and Adobe. Now onto it’s next phase as part of Nscale. Congratulations Robert, Philipp, Ion, and the whole Anyscale team.
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Ashu Garg posted thisMIT founders, Less than 3 weeks to apply for Foundation Capital's next FC Build cohort. We've worked alongside exceptional MIT founders through FC Build, and we're now looking for our next group of 8 builders. The program is completely free, and founders receive $1M+ in startup credits to get started. → What is FC Build? FC Build is Foundation Capital's free accelerator for technical founders at the earliest stages. → Who should apply? MIT alumni and students who've recently started a company, or are seriously thinking about starting one this year. → What do founders get? $1 million in startup credits, A small cohort of exceptional founders, hands-on support from our investment team, office hours, workshops, SF office space, and more. → What's the catch? There isn't one. The program is completely free. No fees. No equity. Apply by August 14th: https://lnkd.in/gzY4JAvQ
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Ashu Garg posted thisFrontier labs are moving up the stack. Founders could easily conclude that the opportunity for building AI applications is disappearing. I think the opposite is true. The labs will build powerful horizontal products. But they cannot deeply understand every industry, workflow, customer environment, and consequential business decision. That leaves a huge surface area for startups that know: - Which problem is important enough to solve? - Which customer needs it most urgently? - What proprietary context is required? - How the product fits into the actual workflow? - How to deliver a measurable business outcome? Startups should expect the labs to move into some of their markets. The strongest defense will be building domain expertise, customer understanding, and workflow depth that broad platforms struggle to replicate. The application opportunity is becoming more specific. The winners will turn broadly available intelligence into deep, hard-to-replace value for a particular customer.
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Ashu Garg posted thisApplications are now open for Foundation Capital's next FC Build cohort. We started FC Build by working closely with IIT Founders, a community of founders we know well. We've had hundreds of founders ask if we'd ever open up the program more broadly. After working with Build founders who've gone on to raise $100s of millions of dollars, we're excited to share, FC Build is now open to exceptional technical founders from every school and background. Everything else stays the same: it's completely free, founders receive $1M+ in startup credits, and we intentionally keep cohorts small and the bar high (<2% acceptance rate). Applications close August 14. We're already meeting founders, so if you're interested, I'd encourage you to apply early: https://lnkd.in/gsH5UEH7
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Ashu Garg liked thisAshu Garg liked thisIMPORTANT UPDATE: Cohesity is honored to join NVIDIA (one of our strategic investors & partners), as one of the founding members of their important initiative that CEO Jensen Huang is driving - OPEN SECURE AI ALLIANCE FOR AI SAFETY & SECURITY - with 50+ key cybersecurity & tech leaders in the industry. We are the first data protection and data security company to join and fully support this initiative. More here: https://lnkd.in/gRDHF9cq
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