fraser

vc at @sparkcapital past: head of product at @openai; co-founder/ceo of an AI startup that was acquired by Airbnb

[Elicit @elicitorg]

Elicit now has an MCP server. Use it inside Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and any MCP-compatible tool.

Agents hallucinate when they don't have access to the right evidence. With Elicit's MCP, they search 138M+ papers and cite instead of guess.

Ask your agent to run a full Elicit research report from inside your existing workflow. It searches, screens, extracts, and produces a shareable report you can build on.

Your agents are only as useful as the evidence they can access. Now they can access Elicit.

Install directly in ChatGPT or ask your agent to read the setup instructions at https://t.co/f41JtMLoyB

[Forbes @Forbes]

Most VCs wouldn’t touch Anthropic in 2023.

Yasmin Razavi did.

The Spark Capital partner led a $450M round when Anthropic had no public product, no revenue and a massive capital need. Now the AI giant’s rise has landed her on the Forbes Midas List for the first time. https://t.co/9rxuS91mb8 (Photo: Guerin Blask For Forbes) #ForbesMidas

[fraser @Fraser]

Most AI-in-pharma stories are about going faster. Profluent and Lilly's partnership is a scientific moonshot -- using AI to design large-scale DNA editors for genetic diseases where one-mutation fixes don't work, reaching patients conventional approaches can't

[Ali Madani @thisismadani]

AI has two modes in drug discovery. Accelerate: moving faster through the existing playbook. Unlock: opening frontiers that weren't possible before.

Excited to announce Profluent is partnering with Eli Lilly, the global pharma powerhouse, to unlock breakthrough medicines for patients.

It's a big deal beyond the numbers ($2.25B + royalties): we’ll get to use our frontier AI models and foundational datasets to design proteins focused on large gene insertion, a therapeutic moonshot.

Proteins govern almost everything in biology. We've built a generalizable AI platform to design all proteins. Onward!

[Andreas Stuhlmüller @stuhlmueller]

https://t.co/8Zj5YWyPwk

[fraser @Fraser]

@jack_w_rae Congrats Jack to you and the entire team

[fraser @Fraser]

@bercankilic @E0M It requires an understanding of what happened with LLMs, and what they were like at the beginning, and what is happening with robotics. Takes a bit of effort to get there

[fraser @Fraser]

Scale is all you need (again). Generalist has pretrained a robotics foundation model from scratch, scaled it up, and it's all working as you'd expect if you truly believe in the scaling hypothesis

The scaling laws they showed previously continue to hold. New capabilities emerge at scale. Some capabilities cross a threshold and are now commercially deployable

https://t.co/f2PCiESM4O

[fraser @Fraser]

There's enough evidence now that it's all going to work just like LLMs.

"Will it work?" is the wrong question. "How fast?" and "How to do it faster?" become the questions.

[fraser @Fraser]

Scale is all you need (again). Generalist has pretrained a robotics foundation model from scratch, scaled it up, and it's all working as you'd expect if you truly believe in the scaling hypothesis

The scaling laws they showed previously continue to hold. New capabilities emerge at scale. Some capabilities cross a threshold and are now commercially deployable

https://t.co/f2PCiESM4O

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

Recent Hallway Chat with @Fraser and I, we chatted about our favorite recent feature from @conductor_build

Instead of submitting a comment you can submit a prompt. And what that implies about the future of software.

Full episode below.

[fraser @Fraser]

@fkadev @interaction @calganaygun Just set this up! Thank you

[fraser @Fraser]

@clarityx Agree!

[fraser @Fraser]

I’m a daily user of Poke. This type of product — a helpful personal assistant, universally available via messaging — will be one of the most important products of this era.

Text is the universal interface. It’s intuitive, without a learning curve. And while a button can only do what a button says, a text box can do anything the user can articulate. There’s a reason why over the history of the consumer internet only two UI paradigms have reached a billion-user scale: the media feed and the chat interface

https://t.co/dftUbU4oFy - now available for everyone

[Poke @interaction]

Starting today, personal superintelligence is just one tap away.

No download, no signup.

Text Poke for free now:

https://t.co/x9ipMywiNU 🌴

—
0:00 – What's Poke?
0:50 – Introducing Poke Recipes
1:25 –  Create a Recipe in 10 seconds
1:43 – Earn on Poke
2:44 – Build with npx poke
12:58 – Recap
13:36 – Parisian Love

[fraser @Fraser]

@___stets___ Love

[fraser @Fraser]

@LordArche @interaction So good. Added but with this change

[fraser @Fraser]

@___stets___ It made me wonder what your life is like

[fraser @Fraser]

@hkhaithu @interaction Just added

[Elicit @elicitorg]

The Elicit API is now available in preview for Pro and Teams users. You can search 138M+ papers and generate Research Reports from your code, scripts, or AI tools.

Get your API key at https://t.co/Q3r5PggChI and check out https://t.co/yMxHqkK0Ob

[fraser @Fraser]

Little nudges, adjustments, and taps... human intuition that helps us get things done when working with our hands.

@GeneralistAI is showing emergent behavior where the model starts to react, correct, and recover in real-time. Weirdly human to see.

[Andy Zeng @andyzengineer]

https://t.co/6a1IWWbhoo

[Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel]

Congrats to https://t.co/xV33ufmNXJ on the acquisition by Apple, the second largest in their history.

In 2022, Aviad cold emailed out of the blue. He barely even told me what he was up to. But from the very first call it was obvious I had met a force of nature, and a kindred spirit.

These folks have really made magic, oh how I wish this wasn't in stealth so you all could see. But with Aviad & team inside of Apple, the magic is sure to hit us all soon enough.

@sparkcapital are so happy to have had the chance to partner with them. Congrats to the Q team!
https://t.co/3dXrm5vg66