FoundersX Ventures

Early-stage VC firm based in Silicon Valley. Investing in the next wave of unicorns building GenAI infrastructure.

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Truly inspired by everyone at the @agihouse_org Hackathon "Think Slow and Think Deep w o1". Shoutout to @HelenSandHill for sharing the necessity of breaking the compute wall, the model wall, and the data wall to reduce hallucinations and enhance data accuracy!
#tech #Hackathon

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Proud of @TurionSpace for landing a spot on the Top 50 Dynamism List! Congrats on pushing boundaries and Unleashing the Potential of Earth Orbit

#FoundersX #DynamismUnleashed @HelenSandHill

[TURION @TurionSpace]

BOOM! Turion just landed on the Top 50 Dynamism List – proof we’re shaking up the game! Join the revolution, follow us, and let's Unleash the Dynamism and Accelerate our Galactic Destiny! #DynamismUnleashed

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Our new website is now available at https://t.co/jXq2G5xlGf

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Grok3 drops: https://t.co/HCFDNOeQYh.

DeepSearch + deep thinking tech—set to disrupt research & multiply productivity.

#AI #Grok #LLM #FoundersX

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

💡 Key Insight:
Reasoning can emerge without massive supervised #CoT data, making training cheaper & more efficient.
✔️ Lower data requirements → More cost-effective #AI development
✔️ Data-driven models (O-series) may still outperform RL-based reasoning in unstructured tasks

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

🚀 The Evolution of AI Reasoning: Are we approaching #AGI?

The frontier of #AI isn’t just about making models bigger—it’s about making them think better.

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

DeepSeek R1 proved reasoning can emerge purely through reinforcement learning (RL)—no supervised fine-tuning. The model teaches itself how to think by being rewarded strictly for correctness.

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

💡 Why This Matters
✅ High-performance reasoning with smaller compute budgets
✅ Open-source AI—accessible to all
✅ Software-driven efficiency—optimized for existing hardware

#AI #DeepSeek #MachineLearning #LLM #OpenSource #FoundersX @HelenSandHill

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

DeepSeek-R1 is redefining AI economics, proving that reasoning models don’t need billion-dollar compute budgets. By optimizing efficiency instead of brute-force scaling, this open-source breakthrough offers a new blueprint for high-performance AI with lower resource constraints.

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

🔥 Performance vs. OpenAI o1
📌 Math (AIME 2024): 79.8% pass@1 (vs. OpenAI-o1’s 79.2%)
📌 Coding (Codeforces Elo): 2029 Elo (96.3% percentile, comparable to OpenAI-o1)
📌 MATH-500: 97.3% pass@1 (vs. 96.4%)

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Read more here: https://t.co/V950FjgOs1

#AITechnology #Semiconductors #TechInnovation #FoundersX @HelenSandHill

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

MIT’s 3D Chip Breakthrough: A Game-Changer for AI

Engineers have cracked the code for multilayered chips, overcoming traditional limitations of horizontal design. Using a “growth-based method” and nucleation techniques, this innovation could revolutionize computing power for AI

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Small reasoning models can be powerful too: DeepSeek-R1-Zero is trained with large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT), showcasing impressive reasoning capabilities

#VCinsights #AIModels #Technology #DeepLearning

[DeepSeek @deepseek_ai]

🚀 DeepSeek-R1 is here!

⚡ Performance on par with OpenAI-o1
📖 Fully open-source model & technical report
🏆 MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely!

🌐 Website & API are live now! Try DeepThink at https://t.co/v1TFy7LHNy today!

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[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

🎉 Incredible night at the pre-#JPM25 dinner in SF with the visionary founders of Omniscope & 1910 Genetics!

🚀 We loved the cutting-edge #BioTech advancements & the amazing progress from these #startups

Good luck to all founders at #JPM25

#FoundersX #Startups @HelenSandHill

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Incredible storytelling meets cutting-edge creativity! 🎥✨

DreamFlare AI’s latest collaboration, The First Artist, with Emmy-winning producer @ericrharcher, is a journey through time—exploring the origins of creativity 35,000 years ago.

#FoundersX #Entertainment #GenAI

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Happy New Years from the team at FoundersX Venture!

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Highlights from #NeurIPS:

1️⃣ Scaling Together: AI and systems must co-evolve.

2️⃣ End of Pre-Training: the next frontier—#Superintelligence

3️⃣ Do All Models Converge?: As AI scales, do all models eventually represent the same “world”?

#AI #SystemsAI #NeurIPS2024

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Key Takeaways from #IEDM:
1️⃣ Scaling below 5nm is hitting limits as silicon struggles with electron scattering.

2️⃣ The future lies in 2D materials: New growth methods are enabling single-crystalline, low-temp, high-yield integration with CMOS.

#Semiconductors #TechInnovation

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

Day 11: OpenAI now integrates seamlessly with coding apps like PyCharm and popular note-taking tools like Notion and Apple Notes.

Harness the power of o1 models directly within the apps you use every day.

#OpenAI #ProductivityTools #TechInnovation

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Day 11: A new way to work with ChatGPT

https://t.co/pFmaglSoNr

[FoundersX Ventures @FoundersXVC]

@TurionSpace secures a $32.6M contract with the US Space Force to develop multi-payload satellites and real-time command/control systems:

• High-res satellite-to-satellite imagery
• Rendezvous proximity capabilities
• Rapid satellite builds

#SpaceTech #Innovation #FoundersX

[TURION @TurionSpace]

Today @TurionSpace was awarded a $32,600,000 firm-fixed-price contract for multi-payload satellites and real-time command and control with the US Space Force. This contract provides for the demonstrations of a rapid build of three satellites with rendezvous proximity operations high-resolution satellite-to-satellite imagery collection capabilities. Although we have many more satellites to launch, join STARFIRE now to get a screaming deal - we're fully operational and can integrate our API into any existing platform rapidly. Official DoD press release here: https://t.co/ZYlXVvmWXj