Great name ! 😎
Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work.
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Congratulations @goodwin_ml and team @fractile_ai!
This $220m raise is proof of exceptional British AI bringing investment and jobs to the UK.
Britain has a deep heritage in semiconductors - and we are now renewing it for the age of AI inference 🇬🇧
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We’re thrilled to be backing @fractile_ai , solving inference at the edge of what’s possible.
The current AI trend around infra and memory is deeply personal to me. A decade ago, I was part of a small team at Cruise pushing silicon to its limit. We were running perception and planning models on NVIDIA Titan with only 6GB of RAM & 2k CUDA cores.
The chips were on-device, power-constrained, thermally limited. The car's air conditioning wasn't designed to dissipate that much heat so we had to engineer custom cooling. Everything was duct tape and ingenuity. It gave me a deep appreciation for doing more with less, and for founders like @goodwin_ml at Fractile who operate the same way.
If you're the type who stares at the limits of physics and sees a challenge - reach out !
Exclusive: The U.K. chip startup Fractile said it has raised a $220 million Series B funding round led by Factorial Funds, Accel and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund on.wsj.com/4nseSGS
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That change you’re feeling? Like the old way of pricing and modeling entire industries is being turned on its head? It’s been slowly compounding for a while now. When you look at the IGV/SMH ratio (tracking the relative performance of software against semiconductors) you see that this rotation out of software into chips isn’t new. It’s just accelerating.
Incredible work @karinanguyen . We can't manage what we can't measure - PostTrainBench is a huge win for the frontier !
Ethan (from Khosla, the true believers in AI before any VC would even take a meeting) posting some incredible insights:
"Hyperscalers which were able to build out incrementally as internet penetration and cloud adoption grew ! " This AI capex cycle is happening much faster.
For anyone who finally want VCs called out on their BS, can I get enough likes and retweets on this for folks who would like @mmurph @deedydas @MenloVentures to be transparent and share the underlying N, firmographic data, and methodology that underpins this study?
Congrats on the launch @nicochristie & team. Time to get your team more GPUs 🫡
When your own portfolio company turns the VC industry into a commodity. How the tables have turned. Great job @perplexity_ai team !
New evals are badly needed for next gen LLMs !
New paper! SimpleQA is newly open-sourced factuality benchmark that contains 4,326 short, fact-seeking questions that are challenging for frontier models.
Designing good evals is hard. But we used the following criteria:
- High correctness via robust data quality verification / human agreement rates.
- Good researcher UX. Easy to grade, easy to run.
- Challenging for frontier models. GPT-4o and Claude both score less than 50%
- Diversity. SimpleQA contains questions from a wide range of topics, including history, science & technology, art, geography, TV shows, etc.
Thanks for having us @RagingVentures , all the panels at the event were great !
Excited to share excerpts from my chat with Sol Bier at our recent NYC Conference. Sol was an early engineer at Cruise & is the founding partner of Factorial Funds, an AI-focused VC fund. The full interview is available here: ragingcapitalventures.com/ai…
A few highlights: 1/4
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Excited to share excerpts from my chat with Sol Bier at our recent NYC Conference. Sol was an early engineer at Cruise & is the founding partner of Factorial Funds, an AI-focused VC fund. The full interview is available here: ragingcapitalventures.com/ai…
A few highlights: 1/4
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I can’t wait to discuss the latest and greatest in AI and venture with Factorial Fund’s Sol Bier @solbier1 at our upcoming Ideas & Networking Conference in NYC on Thurs Sept 19th. Sol was an early founding engineer at Cruise as well as an early investor in Perplexity and Anthropic. He is also an investor in SpaceX. Click here for a full list of speakers and to register: ragingcapitalventures.regfox…
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🤩 We had a great time joining forces with @factorialfunds to bring together a stellar group of our portfolio founders for ‘Founder Day’ at @AnthropicAI.
Founders were treated to an inside look at Anthropic’s product roadmap, best practices for builders using the company’s API and other #AI products—and even a Boba tea bar! 🧋
🙌🏼 Thanks to the Factorial and Anthropic teams for being awesome partners! #AI #GenAI #founders #startups
Huge thank you to @joandthezhus @jneuwirth4 & the entire Anthropic startup team
@factorialfunds and @NEA co-hosted an incredible Founder Day at @AnthropicAI, where portfolio companies joined to hear from co-founder @DanielaAmodei and CPO @mikeyk. @AnthropicAI presented some incredible insights into their product roadmap.
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Founders have been busy cooking this summer in SF
Thank you @AnthropicAI for bringing our founders along with your exciting roadmap and mastering PMF with your boba bar :)
@DanielaAmodei @mikeyk @joandthezhus @solbier1 @factorialfunds @jamesekaplan @NEA @btp4z7 @james_elicit @shravan2x @tiimparis @angli_ai
