Bela Becerra

@8VC

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@Nim_Ravid1 @sequoia @8vc @NotionHQ @DecagonAI Big congratulations to this incredible team!!! ☁️🚀

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@JTLonsdale No cloud hat for you??

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

RT @JTLonsdale: One of the biggest constraints on growth has always been the ability to scale human judgment.

At Palantir, we saw firsthan…

[Nim Ravid @Nim_Ravid1]

Introducing Aidan, your newest AI employee

Aidan is the first computer-using AI built for realtime conversation

We’ve raised $45M from @sequoia and @8VC to bring Aidan to the world

@NotionHQ and @DecagonAI already use Aidan to run customer interactions. This is how @withsableai works:

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Three weeks ago, the @Saronic Corsair brought two American aviators home.

Last night, Corsairs hit Bandar Abbas in the first US sea drone combat strike.

Look out for more news on Saronic soon; they aren’t resting on their laurels. Just getting going.

Proud of this team 🇺🇲

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@mualphaxi majestic

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@AlexKolicich you lose the opportunity to wear sick furs...

[Alex Kolicich @AlexKolicich]

Awesome to finally announce our involvement with @Ollama since the seed round

It’s the most important infrastructure project around the use of open models

[Cognition @cognition]

Introducing SWE-1.7, the most capable model we’ve trained yet.

It scores within a few points of the strongest frontier models at a fraction of the cost, and is now available at 1000 tok/s.

RL is not hitting its limit: after refining our recipe, we keep seeing gains as we scale

[8VC @8vc]

Much of the AI narrative revolves around architecture research, compute scaling & buying human data. Very few understand the deep technical discipline of "data research," which has driven many of the gains in model capabilities.

@vvkgopalan sits down with @madiator & @AlexGDimakis, founders of @bespokelabsai, a company defining the category of data research.

(00:00) Introducing Mahesh and Alex

(03:40) Teaching a 1000 person ML class at Berkeley / changes in CS education in the age of AI

(06:10) Open source data for frontier model training, OpenThoughts & training models for data curation

(12:00) Why multiple-answer yields more performant models, benefits of keeping unverifiable examples in datasets

(17:20) RL scaling laws / introduction to Bespoke

(19:45) "Environment-driven Development"

(28:35) New capabilities in frontier models & coding agents

(34:30) Market outlook for RL environments

(42:30) Exciting recent research and how we arrived at today's state of RL

(50:00) Bespoke's Series A

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@sebgoddijn 🤯

[Alex Kolicich @AlexKolicich]

Had a very fun chat with the @TradedVC team

Shared some current thoughts on building 8VC as a craft firm in an era of mega funds, stewardship over ownership, and why none of the bottlenecks left are technological

https://t.co/TE6UOfYiEV

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@Nicobot01 congrats legend!!!

[Arena Magazine @arenamagdotcom]

Yesterday, @Saronic was in the news because in a first-of-its-kind operation, a Saronic Corsair ASV rescued two US soldiers from the Strait of Hormuz.

Today, we're thrilled to share the first feature from Arena 008: At Sea. @juliasteinberg goes to Austin to visit the startup building autonomous boats and ships.

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@arenamagdotcom @Saronic @juliasteinberg Amazing!! Can't wait to read

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@TheRealDanSaedi congrats gents!!!

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Two US aviators went down near the Strait of Hormuz. DoW used an autonomous @Saronic Corsair to find and bring them home - the 1st drone rescue at sea in military history.

This is why we build: to keep our troops safe. This was science fiction. American builders made it real 🇺🇸.

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@bugmango @MavrookasD @8vc @Saronic legendary

[Bela Becerra @bela_becerra]

@JTLonsdale @Saronic 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[8VC @8vc]

Robotics is going to get its Claude Code moment long before its ChatGPT moment.

Everyone keeps waiting on the big general-purpose humanoid demo, the one that's supposed to make the whole thing click. But that's not how LLMs broke through. Coding got there first. It was narrow, hard, and mostly ignored. But it was the first place models got good enough to pay for, and that usage and data loop compounded into everything people point to now.

Robotics has the same kind of wedge in front of it: dexterity. The precise manipulation that real work is made of, like plugging a cable into a socket, kitting, repackaging and assembly. It's the hardest unsolved problem in the field, and the first thing that actually turns into revenue.

Whoever cracks that owns most of what comes after.

Which is why we backed @GeneralistAI's $400M round.

More here: https://t.co/AVvyu09DWe