Bloom
company on 10 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes · said 27 times in 13 episodes since 2019
Latent Space 8 
TBPN 7 
the MAD Podcast 5 
No Priors 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 1 
How I Built This 1 
Big Technology 1 
20VC 1 
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2025 12 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
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- AI’s Drawbacks: Environmental Damage, Bad Benchmarks, Outsourcing Thinking
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2024 8 mentions in 3 episodes 3 per episode
2023 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
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Eliahu-Ontiveros: Deploying Bloom fuel cells means being islanded for life
“And if you do bloom, you're basically islanded for life. Either that, or maybe you get good at some point, and then you move your fuel cells to some other location but you can't use them as backup. It's not a very efficient solution for backup purposes.”
Ahluwalia: 90% of capital in top Indian VC funds is foreign-sourced
“Most of, even if you see the larger funds in India, like Bloom, Solaris or Axel of the world, 90% of their money comes from outside India, mostly US, right?”
Scialom: Multilinguality in LLMs emerges naturally with very little data
“Multilinguality almost emerged naturally with very, very few data, which was really surprising and not expected at all for us at the time.”
Rayapati: Blume's largest check was over $1M into Minjar
“Bloom put in all their largest checks. So, so Bloom's largest check was in Minja. Which is a more than a million. They have never done such checks.”
Rayapati: Minjar rejected an $18M buyout before raising at $11M valuation
“Before Bloom decided to put money, we had an opportunity to sell the company for eighteen million. But we took money from Bloom for, like, less than 12,000,011 million.”
BigScience is the largest ML collaboration to date, says Delangue
“Big science was like the largest collaboration in, in machine learning to date with like a thousand researchers from 200 organizations, kind of like coming together in order to build and train a large language model completely in the open.”