Chris Wake

Buzzword, buzzword, impressive stat, name drop, lasers — probably not the Chris that you are looking for. Working on non-linear outcomes @atypicalvc

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

In search of engineers that give a damn. https://t.co/HY6LikUcqH

[Colossus @colossusmag]

1/ SpaceX is one of the most valuable private companies in the world.

Launch costs have dropped by nearly 45x since the days of the Space Shuttle.

Over $75bn of investment has been poured into companies building space infrastructure since 2015.

But investors with long memories will think back to the turn of the millennium and ask, "Haven't we been here before?"

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

I'm rarely on here anymore, but when I am, it's pretty much always to tout just how mindblowing the work @ExaAILabs is... Websets are a legit superpower!

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Exa Websets is now live! 🚀

Supercharged search awaits. 👇

[Thais Castello Branco @thaiscbranco_]

@ExaAILabs just built the o1 of search - using flexible compute to allow you to find anything you want across the web. 💥

Join the waitlist below, or drop a query and I’ll send you a webset.

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Like I said before... Show up and deliver. Every day. No exceptions. This team delivers. Happy to be part of the adventure!

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Announcing our Series A, led by @lightspeedvp, with participation from @nvidia and @ycombinator! 🚀

Exa is an AI lab redesigning search. Funding will help scale our API product, the first search engine built to power LLMs.

Today, we’re also launching big product updates: 🧵

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Solving humanity's gnarliest technical challenges takes time, whereas finding capital to keep doing it should not. Now, you have people — https://t.co/GrZGq5UPHZ 😎

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Historical assumptions no longer apply. It’s time to think from first principles, have a long term view, and be customer obsessed.

[Will Bryk @WilliamBryk]

People think Google has a big moat in search, but that moat is actually a cage.

"They have all the search data" --> That means their algorithm is designed for past search patterns, not future ones

“They have all the click data" --> Which has optimized them directly into SEO hell

“Their search is so fast" --> Sets a maximum for the power of algorithms they can run

“They have the infrastructure to search the entire web each search" --> Causes information overload. Again restricts algorithm power. Less is more

"They’ve been doing search for 25 years" --> The base search algorithm should be thrown out and redesigned now that we have systems with nearly human-level intelligence

“They have billions of users and make over 100 billion dollars a year" --> It was difficult to turn the Titanic

“They already solved search” --> For the easiest queries sure. But that reputation prevents exploration of new algorithms for hard queries. Ex: try to find a list of people who've written about search

“They’re doing just fine, they don’t need to solve the hard queries” --> Exactly

Google’s moat keeps them caged in their castle, while we barbarians explore a new rich search landscape.

@metaphorsystems isn't trying to be Google, we're being something more

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Show up and deliver. Every day. No exceptions. This team delivers... Search built for machines.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Soon, AI will search more than humans. Metaphor is the first search engine built for your LLM!

With a few lines of code you can do a Metaphor (or keyword) search and get back clean, parsed HTML for any content. Get 1000 requests/month free at https://t.co/004elm8P5L (1/3)

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Life is people. And life at its best is doing meaningful work with people you admire.

[John Nay @johnjnay]

I founded a second AI company.

We're pioneering an empirical, practical approach to AI alignment, leveraging law/policy & LLMs.

Backed by top venture firms and AI researchers in the Bay Area & NYC, we're hiring 5 more Members of our Technical Staff.

DM me your CV if interested

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

@maccaw Welcome to the hood! 😎

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Real artists ship.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Excited to announce a big step toward organizing the internet!

Metaphor now enables:
1. Neural search over the internet's newest content
2. Filter by any number of domains
3. Filter by date

So you get all the power of Metaphor, but over a subset of the internet that you define.

[Exa @ExaAILabs]

Hey Friends!
We’re releasing some updates to Metaphor, including an updated model, a much more comprehensive index and a fresh UI. (1/7)

[Idan Beck @idanbeck]

Excited to be out at GDC for the first time with the @epochml team! Come by our booth at S1351 to talk to us about the exciting work we've been doing to help game devs bring games to market faster over the last year!

[Walrus Security @WalrusFi]

THREAD (0/9)🧵 Everyone’s diversifying their banking relationships post-SVB (including us). BUT this means anyone who pays or gets paid using new accounts has their work cut out for them.

Treasurers, controllers, CFOs, investors - we're looking at you! And we’re here to help…

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

In less than 8 weeks I will run a lot of miles across London in support of Make-A-Wish — help me to put smiles on children's faces.😁

https://t.co/Stu0b6iWLm

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Unsexy problems are plentiful. At least now it's possible to find the best plan to solve them fast.

[Nextmv @getnextmv]

New release! Go from zero to decision model in minutes. From routing to scheduling, packing, or creating something entirely new. Try it out and let us know what you think. https://t.co/HpFAvxFbc7 #decisionscience #optimization #orms

[WIRED Science @WIREDScience]

The new Pretty Good Phone Privacy service for Android hides the data linking you to your mobile device. https://t.co/b04oY6lext

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

A glamorous or impressive bio has the benefit of time. In the moment, everyone experiences shit.

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

@jeremybanon @JeffCrusey 😊🙏

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

A fresh opinion is surprisingly rare and often scary — a person with a fresh opinion is a modern-day pioneer.

[Chris Wake @cjwake]

Crypto and poker are two activities that can be frustrating with a short stack.