Joe Botsch

VC @Deviationcap, formerly @rtpvc, @OpenView & Head of Research at @MassChallenge. talking startups or complaining about Boston sports

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@middlemarketmac A vc portfolio is basically one long parlay

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@nikhilvnamburi Didn’t want to laugh…but my dad status obliges me to

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@JasonrShuman Jason co blowing up on the side?

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@JayKapoorNYC

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@bznotes Once again Bilal…can’t sit with us

take your monkey pictures and leave the robots alone

[Sam Elliott @samelliottsam]

BREAKING: Anthropic files their S1 and OpenAI files their S1.5 with improved reasoning and a 2x longer lockup period

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@zebulgar I mean the AI / deep tech returns are going to cover up some ugly SaaS vintages

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@ditzikow

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@bznotes Enterprise trying to sit at the deep tech table

[Luke J. Huang @whatthelukh]

New blog! Is frontier asynchronous RL solved?

The blog covers Async RL theory and infrastructure, surveying 8 open-weight frontier labs for the algorithmic techniques and systems fixes to handle train-inference mismatch. Also answered: why do current methods still fail at high policy lag? Which methods scale with horizon and compute?

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@aashaysanghvi_ The one time a cvc can have a fund returner

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Obsessed with the impeccable handwriting skills of the woman updating the Roland-Garros draws

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@JasonrShuman Vertical integration or nothing!

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@fahdananta Never negative on Toronto Tech, always negative on the Leafs though

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@FinnMurphy12

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@moislamvc @obviousvc Congrats!!

[Dan Gray @credistick]

Great read from @dharrisindc:
https://t.co/b7RlbJaDW6

[clem 🤗 @ClementDelangue]

I remember when people were saying "It's useless to open-source big models because nobody will be able to run them fast"....

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.