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The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
The fact that larger models keep impriving when trained repeatedly on the same data with the right recipe means more compute can make existing data go further.
Great read from @industriaalist and the Qlabs team.
Humans are ~1,000,000x more sample efficient than LLMs, and there are no good explanations.
We’ve found that a big part of the answer is that LLMs are *massively* underparameterized by many orders of magnitude. The brain has 100T synapses learning from ~200M tokens of language. Chinchilla prescribes a 1T-parameter model on 20T tokens. That’s 7 OOMs apart in parameters per token.
After a lot of painstaking work, we present new data-constrained scaling laws and learning algorithms to scale to (extrapolated) quadrillion-parameter transformers.
w/ @akshayvegesna, @EthanBaron78553, @asatheesh6561
Full paper led by @EthanBaron78553, with @ShmuelBerman, @andrewgwils
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Love hosting events like this @thegp office in SF. Vibecheck formally verifies the value of eng. community in The Bay (and beyond) cc @bencmejla
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
The first public workshop on Lanyon at the Vibecheck Hackathon in SF.
So many interesting projects! From using Lanyon to model articulation constraints in robots, to producing a full flight simulator, to modeling integrable systems, to solving the Klein-Gordon equation!
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
130K one-person businesses did $1M+ in revenue last year, up 11% (via Forbes). AI is making the solo company a real thing, and it still needs a finance department. Proud to back @CollectiveFin and @hoomanradfar as they build it. Congrats on the new round and massive growth!
Collective has raised $100M to build the future of solo business.
We’re building the AI-native financial OS that gives every Business-of-One the back office of a much bigger company.
Thank you to our members, our team and our investors.
Read the full announcement: collective.com/blog/collecti…
As well as our CEO Hooman Radfar's blog post: collective.com/blog/100m-to-…
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
It's been awesome building with @hoomanradfar and the entire @CollectiveFin team over the last few years.
To the people who worry AI will destroy jobs - here is an example of a AI making it easier and more approachable to be an entrepreneur and earn a living based on your unique skills and creativity (instead of the ability to organize a back office finance function and manage compliance and tax). (cc @thegp)
Collective has raised $100M to build the future of solo business.
We’re building the AI-native financial OS that gives every Business-of-One the back office of a much bigger company.
Thank you to our members, our team and our investors.
Read the full announcement: collective.com/blog/collecti…
As well as our CEO Hooman Radfar's blog post: collective.com/blog/100m-to-…
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Wonder if you're vertical AI business is durable? If you're RoTo is high and rising - you're good.
Got RoTo? open.substack.com/pub/phinba…
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
When the ‘P’ in partnership truly matters, it manifests in meaningful outcomes like this
@thegp
Founder email to @theGP team today about what it's like to build with us:
"I wanted to send a quick note as we wrap up our talent engagement. We ironed out the last details with ___, and she starts Wednesday. With that, you have supported the hiring of four candidates, half our FTEs, all PhDs. You helped me attract people with specific technical experience where my network was limited, and get me where I needed to be."
When people say they "help" with recruiting, ask if this is what they mean.
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Founder email to @theGP team today about what it's like to build with us:
"I wanted to send a quick note as we wrap up our talent engagement. We ironed out the last details with ___, and she starts Wednesday. With that, you have supported the hiring of four candidates, half our FTEs, all PhDs. You helped me attract people with specific technical experience where my network was limited, and get me where I needed to be."
When people say they "help" with recruiting, ask if this is what they mean.
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
It’s been awesome building with @capitaltruist and the whole @falconer_ai team.
Don’t burn tokens making up new shit everytime there’s a question— the best answers are inside your company already — @falconer_ai brings you the answers you need when you need them.
Trillions are pouring into the race to build the first general superintelligence, but leveraging your own specialized know-it-all is now possible as of today.
I built the knowledge systems at @stripe and @uber. Then I helped Anthropic, Metronome, and Graphite build a killer developer experience. Everyone wants Stripe-level quality, but that bar is too low.
Falconer gives you and your customers complete, specialized intelligence: an internal knowledge base and external documentation in one beautiful package. Falconer is the ultimate trust engine to manage your context: self-driving, observable, and agent-friendly.
I co-founded @falconer_ai with @mbenedetto212 and assembled a team of know-it-all builders. We're backed by fellow know-it-alls @thegp, @BoxGroup, @svangel, @karimatiyeh, @benln, @zachlloydtweets, @CeciStalls, @MerrillLutsky, @scottmac, @malthe, and @adamjstevenson, with angels from Anthropic, Stripe, Meta, Cursor, Replit, and more.
Frontier intelligence companies like @FireworksAI_HQ and @⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛; fintech companies like @payabli and @vori; and healthtech companies like @thatch_ai use @falconer_ai because they all share the same vision as us: the knowledge you earn should belong to you.
Now you can know everything, so you can build anything.
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Every company is about to have more AI agents than employees, and both are useless without knowledge they can trust. Dave built that layer at Stripe and Uber. Falconer brings it to everyone including Fireworks Thatch, Payabli and many more. Proud to be backing this team
Trillions are pouring into the race to build the first general superintelligence, but leveraging your own specialized know-it-all is now possible as of today.
I built the knowledge systems at @stripe and @uber. Then I helped Anthropic, Metronome, and Graphite build a killer developer experience. Everyone wants Stripe-level quality, but that bar is too low.
Falconer gives you and your customers complete, specialized intelligence: an internal knowledge base and external documentation in one beautiful package. Falconer is the ultimate trust engine to manage your context: self-driving, observable, and agent-friendly.
I co-founded @falconer_ai with @mbenedetto212 and assembled a team of know-it-all builders. We're backed by fellow know-it-alls @thegp, @BoxGroup, @svangel, @karimatiyeh, @benln, @zachlloydtweets, @CeciStalls, @MerrillLutsky, @scottmac, @malthe, and @adamjstevenson, with angels from Anthropic, Stripe, Meta, Cursor, Replit, and more.
Frontier intelligence companies like @FireworksAI_HQ and @⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛; fintech companies like @payabli and @vori; and healthtech companies like @thatch_ai use @falconer_ai because they all share the same vision as us: the knowledge you earn should belong to you.
Now you can know everything, so you can build anything.
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
@joshhhua is one of the best Talent Leaders in venture
He built Robinhood from 30 through IPO, and is giving out free game on the timeline
Oh, and one of the favorite people to work alongside at @thegp
NEW: The Executive Search Operating System.
We spent weeks putting pen to paper to capture what matters most in executive recruiting. Written by @joshhhua, our Head of Talent who previously led recruiting at @RobinhoodApp as it grew from 30 to 4,000, this guide lays out a 4-phase framework for running an executive search.
The core idea is that search is a loop. Every conversation should sharpen your understanding of who you need and strengthen your candidate pool.
The guide gives you concrete tools to answer one question every week: Is this search actually working?
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Many VCs will give you tactical advice on how to run your hiring process without ever hiring anyone at any scale.
We operate a little different and have folks on the team who've led recruiting for critical roles at top companies - in this case written by our Head of Talent who previously led recruiting at @RobinhoodApp as it grew from 30 to 4,000.
This guide lays out a 4-phase framework for running an executive search - the entire loop from mandate definition to close.
Worth a read as you build your exec team: thegeneralpartnership.substa…
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Our team says they took weeks to capture what matters but it's really decades of aggregate work across the top companies in tech. startups are bad at hiring and despite capital amounts, it remains the largest bottleneck.
NEW: The Executive Search Operating System.
We spent weeks putting pen to paper to capture what matters most in executive recruiting. Written by @joshhhua, our Head of Talent who previously led recruiting at @RobinhoodApp as it grew from 30 to 4,000, this guide lays out a 4-phase framework for running an executive search.
The core idea is that search is a loop. Every conversation should sharpen your understanding of who you need and strengthen your candidate pool.
The guide gives you concrete tools to answer one question every week: Is this search actually working?
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Minerva MCP is now live in ChatGPT, Claude and Muse.
Ask your agent who your best customers are, why they buy, and where to find more. Then send that audience to Meta, HubSpot or Klaviyo without leaving the thread.
Plus Personas, shipping today:
minerva.io/blog/launching-mc…
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Proud to share that @TurbineOneTech is now the subject of a @HarvardHBS case study. 🎓
"TurbineOne: Navigating Growth on the Front Lines," written by @bussgang and James Barnett, is being taught in Launching Technology Ventures, the HBS elective that has trained more than 2,500 founders and startup operators over fifteen years.
The case goes back to one of our earliest and hardest decisions. In 2022, we had our first major Defense contract within reach, but not the facility clearance to do the work directly. Take the fast path as a subcontractor under a prime, or hold out to own the customer relationship and risk the deal entirely?
It's a question every defense tech founder eventually faces, and one where the traditional startup playbook doesn't always hold up.
Thank you for telling our story and for having me. It's an honor to see TurbineOne's journey become part of how the next generation of founders learns to build.
#HarvardBusinessSchool
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Today marks @thatch_ai's 5 year anniversary. 5 years in, here are the 5 lessons I keep coming back to:
1. The right team matters infinitely more than the right idea.
2. Separate your ego from your hypothesis, and you’ll value “getting it right” over “being right.”
3. A great culture is simultaneously intense, reasonable, and kind.
4. A powerful mission changes you before it changes the world.
5. Integrity is always the correct business decision in the fullness of time.
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
Excited to have @thegp be part of bringing all these builders together in San Francisco for a formal methods hackathon - @bencmejla @dpup will be there along with others from our team - will be great.
Signup Now: fmxai.org/vibecheck/
We’re organizing Vibecheck, a formal methods hackathon with some of the best folks in the space - @maxvonhippel, @qd_forall, @nolanlwin, @jessemhan, @emiyazono, and @workersio.
You’ll get a weekend to build real production software, and formally verify it.
We’ll have people who really know their stuff around to help, and you can come with a team, find one there, or just hack on something yourself.
We are glad to have a phenomenal group of sponsors, including @harmonicmath, @mathematics_inc, @theoremlabs, @thegp, @omnicom, @primeintellect, @astriolabs, @buildwithparty, @wearerandomlabs, and @lanyon_ai, as well as some more we will announce in the coming days!
If you’re a hacker, a formal methods person, or just someone who thinks “how do we know it works?” is an interesting question, we’d love to have you.
Signup Now: fmxai.org/vibecheck/
The General Partnership ("TheGP") retweeted
@maxvonhippel was my entrée into FM — excited for @thegp to co-host Vibecheck with him and this crew.
We’re organizing Vibecheck, a formal methods hackathon with some of the best folks in the space - @maxvonhippel, @qd_forall, @nolanlwin, @jessemhan, @emiyazono, and @workersio.
You’ll get a weekend to build real production software, and formally verify it.
We’ll have people who really know their stuff around to help, and you can come with a team, find one there, or just hack on something yourself.
We are glad to have a phenomenal group of sponsors, including @harmonicmath, @mathematics_inc, @theoremlabs, @thegp, @omnicom, @primeintellect, @astriolabs, @buildwithparty, @wearerandomlabs, and @lanyon_ai, as well as some more we will announce in the coming days!
If you’re a hacker, a formal methods person, or just someone who thinks “how do we know it works?” is an interesting question, we’d love to have you.
Signup Now: fmxai.org/vibecheck/