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Hebbia aims to scale to 300-400 employees by the end of 2025
“And so we were opening SF and we've already opened a London office which is incredibly exciting with goals to end the year at 300 to 400 employees.”
Palmer: Sutter Hill Ventures incubates all its portfolio companies in-house
“And where Sutter Hill's a little bit unique is that Sutter Hill doesn't invest in pre-existing companies. All the companies are incubated directly out of Sutter Hill.”
Fireworks AI was first to enable function calling for DeepSeek models
“We have been working on function for calling for a long time, and we are the first one to enable function calling for deep seek models.”
Kiela: FAIR was the first team to build a generative RAG model
“Why RAG became the way you name these things is because it's generative, right? So we were the first ones to have a generative model there.”
Misra: Existing text-to-video AI models produce only silent B-roll
“If you look at all the video generation models today that are doing text to video, they're all silent videos, right? There's never anybody talking. It's all B-roll, right?”
Replit built Ghostwriter, the first GitHub Copilot alternative
“So we built the first sort of co-pilot alternative, essentially.”
Hitchcock: No existing database was designed for historical temporal querying
“There's not a single, really a single database out there designed in that specific way to be able to do that”
Kahn: Fortune prohibits journalists from using AI to write articles
“Again, in, at Fortune, we don't, we're not actually allowed to use them to write articles for us.”
Dines: Earlybird Digital East accepted common shares in UiPath seed round
“They ended up signing common shares in the end.”
~35 US states will enact data privacy regulations by late 2025
“I think by the end of 20, 25, something like 35 states in the US will have their own privacy regulation.”
VAST Data enables native SQL querying directly on Parquet objects
“You can write a parquet object and then query it using SQL natively off of our platform without needing any higher layers on top.”
McGuire: Roblox is the only platform allowing instant, unapproved 3D publishing
“And so it's the only platform where you can do for three D what today you can do for micro blogging, like text or images, which is one person without some sort of app store approval, without becoming a publisher, or that's, you can go and create something that…”
Sapoznik: Call center agents face an annual turnover rate near 100%
“And then agents have an average attrition rate of about a hundred percent per year, depending on the year.”
Moonhub AI will likely handle all five recruiting stages by mid-2024
“Today, you know, the AI can't do all five stages of the process I mentioned to you. It might do stage one, stage two, We'll probably get to stage five by mid next year, but in the interim, you have a human who's actually helping you with all those other stages…”
Shah: Not interrupting patients is the primary driver of perceived doctor empathy
“The number one driver of whether you thought you had an empathetic doctor was did they not cut you off when you started telling your story?”
Liu: Uber and Instabase use LlamaIndex for enterprise data applications
“We've seen people build these workflows at different settings from, for instance, like hacks on projects at startups building, for instance, like track GPT, like, plugin over, like, your Slack or your Notion all the way to kind of, like, bigger companies, for …”
Wiggins: Early US computing was funded by intelligence for data processing
“That story had its own mirror on the other side of the Atlantic in Bell Labs, and how Bell Labs played a crucial role in scaling up code breaking as a computational problem that pairs Bell Labs with the nascent intelligence community, which goes on to fund IBM…”
Mann: GitHub Copilot is likely the most widely deployed LLM application
“So far the most widely deployed application of the large language models is probably Copilot.”
Apache Kafka was built on prior engineering work at Yahoo
“Things like Kafka eventually came out of LinkedIn that was based on work that we had been doing at Yahoo”
Anthony: Pedestrians physically punched Cruise autonomous cars in 2017
“So, in particular I think it was in 2017, the incident reports from crews, there were two or three times where somebody punched the car.”
Companies with automated sales pipelines grow 2.2x faster than competitors
“Your average organization that builds automated sales pipelines grows 2.2 x faster than any other competitor.”
Chia: Google Spanner eliminates operational differences between and within shards
“And in Spanner, it's a little bit nicer in that every shard behaves the same, and because we have technologies like, ah, two-phase commit, We are, you don't really have any difference between operating within a shard or across shards, but it's not always true …”
Oudghiri: SMB corporate registration addresses do not match physical locations
“None of their addresses and their corporate registrations are actually the addresses that the locations are in.”
Dixon: High-end VR headset prices fell 80% over three years
“The price of a high-end VR headset has gone down, I think, like, 80% over the last three years”
Shah: Central Bank of Brazil manages $1 trillion assets using Julia
“The Brazilian National Bank uses Julia to manage all of its trillion dollars in assets.”
Skonnard expects Pluralsight's enterprise pricing to hold while individual pricing drops
“And so over time, I would see the enterprise price point staying where it's at, and the individual price point coming way down.”
Achin: Non-data scientist advisor placed 5th in Kaggle competition using DataRobot
“One of our advisors, who's not a data scientist, knows nothing about insurance he came in fifth place. And this is out of six hundred-something people including thirty-something Liberty Mutual employees that have competed.”
Bonobos was the largest U.S. retail company founded online in 2015
“And now we're the largest U.S. Retail company that was founded online.”
DonorsChoose uses its classroom resource data to actively lobby US lawmakers.
“DonorsChoose is now taking these findings, and they're actually becoming an advocacy group. So they are lobbying lawmakers and decision makers to say, hey, did you know this is going on in your school systems? We have this data that once we analyze, we're able…”
Brute-forcing a 10-word sentence requires one billion permutations
“For a machine to create a sentence out of 10 words, it has to go through one billion permutations.”
Crouch: D.C. is largest city with female-led police department
“D.C. Is the largest city in the world whose police department is run by a woman”
US oncology EHR adoption will reach 100% by 2017
“And in oncology that's about 90% or so, and growing. It'll be a hundred percent within the next two years.”
Wallach: Research shows diverse teams best facilitate rapid breakthrough innovation
“In fact, there's even substantial research in social psychology and sociology indicating that rapid breakthrough innovations are best facilitated by bringing together people with really diverse backgrounds.”
Most data growth to 40 zettabytes by 2020 will originate from sensors
“If you look at the, you know, the forecasts that are going from the 2.8 zettabytes to 40 zettabytes in 2020 that's, most of that data is gonna be coming from sensors, right?”
Knaup: Chronos distributed system requires zero network programming due to Mesos
“It's a distributed system and it never opens a single socket. There's no network programming whatsoever in Kronos because Mesos takes care of all of that.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics spends $250M annually collecting price data
“Two hundred fifty million dollars a year, it takes the BLS to collect this data”
Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US
“So today, four years later, five million teachers, seventy million students are using it in the K through 12 system here in the United States.”
Mike Flowers says every major US city police department uses CompStat
“I don't know of a single police department in a large city in the United States that isn't going a ComStat model.”
New McDonald's drive-thrus require FCC licenses, creating trackable alternative data
“Whenever a new McDonald's store opens, they have to file an FCC license for the drive-thru, ah, in order to order.”
Moody: Boulder, Colorado, has the highest PhDs per capita in America
“They're actually, per capita, have more PhDs than any other city in the United States.”
Walsher: Global software developer population grew 7x since 2006
“Over that time, so from, call it, 2006 all the way to now estimated about seven x growth in the number of global software developers”
Top three cloud providers spend $60B to $70B quarterly on CapEx
“Yeah, 60 to seventy billion per quarter now. From the top three clouds, which it's and it just keeps going up”
OpenAI inference pricing drops 160x between model generations
“If you look at the pricing page for, like, OpenAI, and you look at the 4.5 turbo, and the cost per inference, and compare it to the next most recent model, there's a 160 X difference in pricing.”
XtremIO reached $3 billion in sales two years after EMC acquisition
“We hit three billion dollars in two years as part of EMC, of course.”
McGuire: Roblox releases a new AI feature every couple of weeks
“Every, every couple of weeks we're releasing a new AI powered feature.”