Ken Chong

founder/ceo at Jarvie AI | @heyJarvie

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

AI agents are incredibly powerful, but they still don’t show up where everyday life actually happens.

For so many of us, life runs on group chats. Plans, trips, family logistics, inside jokes, chaos…

That’s why we built @heyJarvie.

We think group chats are the perfect place to use AI with your friends and family.

[Jarvie @heyjarvie]

1/ Last year we got hooked on agents. Today, many friends and family still haven’t found their daily AI.

So we built @heyjarvie, your AI assistant for iMessage group chats.

With an $8.3M Seed from @a16z, @Base10Partners & @lightspeedvp we're giving chats an agentic boost!

Try it at https://t.co/xyRyGQ14r7.

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

@elliott__potter This is really cool! Can’t wait to build with it

[Maple VC @MapleVCFund]

Congrats on the launch @kenchong and @matt_sawchuk!

[Patrick Sullivan @patsullyyy]

excited to see jarvie launch with group messages as a focus📈

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

@acharoo @matt_sawchuk Thanks @acharoo and @MapleVCFund for being a great partner and investor since day 1 🙌

[Lightspeed @lightspeedvp]

You can now text your AI agent like you text your group chats.

We are excited to announce our participation in @heyjarvie’s $8.3M seed round as they go live for usage on iMessage, enabling users to message agents through chat apps.

Founder @kenchong was inspired by the AI agent wave in enterprise, and wanted to incorporate agents into everyday communication. Jarvie can be messaged directly or added to group chats to organize plans, perform tasks, and provide summaries in the simple format of just sending a text.

We believe AI assistants like Jarvie have the potential to reshape the future of how we interact with technology for typically mundane tasks.

Congratulations to the team on this launch!

CC: @ataussig

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

Try it out at https://t.co/0tGZ3hhnMa

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

AI agents are incredibly powerful, but they still don’t show up where everyday life actually happens.

For so many of us, life runs on group chats. Plans, trips, family logistics, inside jokes, chaos…

That’s why we built @heyJarvie.

We think group chats are the perfect place to use AI with your friends and family.

[Jarvie @heyjarvie]

1/ Last year we got hooked on agents. Today, many friends and family still haven’t found their daily AI.

So we built @heyjarvie, your AI assistant for iMessage group chats.

With an $8.3M Seed from @a16z, @Base10Partners & @lightspeedvp we're giving chats an agentic boost!

Try it at https://t.co/xyRyGQ14r7.

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

With today's 20% SpaceX pop, Elon made more money today than Warren Buffett made in his entire career

[chiefofautism @chiefofautism]

someone built a tool that REMOVES censorship from ANY open-weight LLM with a single click

13 abliteration methods, 116 models, 837 tests, and it gets SMARTER every time someone runs it

its called OBLITERATUS

it finds the exact weights that make the model refuse and surgically removes them, full reasoning stays intact, just the refusal disappears

15 analysis modules map the geometry of refusal BEFORE touching a single weight, it can even fingerprint whether a model was aligned with DPO vs RLHF vs CAI just from subspace geometry alone

then it cuts, the model keeps its full brain but loses the artificial compulsion to say no

every time someone runs it with telemetry enabled their anonymous benchmark data feeds a growing community dataset, refusal geometries, method comparisons, hardware profiles at a scale no single lab could build

[Cove @TryCoveAI]

🚀 Today, we're thrilled to introduce Cove, a groundbreaking interface for thinking brilliantly with AI, and announce our seed round led by @sequoia

Cove is not a chatbot. It’s AI unconstrained by a chat thread or document editor.

See it in action:

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

@andrewchen @EmmaBWaldron Congrats!

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

@blader @runwayco @Initialized @garrytan @Rippling Congrats!

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

@SVB_Financial has been an important partner to the tech ecosystem. I am in support of working with SVB’s successor if the FDIC/Fed can assure that the bank is in stable hands

[Ron Conway @RonConway]

.@svangel and I are proud to join this group of investors supporting SVB for a timely resumption of business

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

Congrats @ataussig @jeremysliew @ravi_lsvp and the entire team @lightspeedvp!
Thanks for being incredible partners 🙏

[Alex Taussig @ataussig]

1/ A few comments on @Lightspeedvp's new $7B+ global fund family (our 14th), which we announced today.

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

Congrats @andrewchen on your big day! I know how much hard work you put into this so very happy to see it all come to fruition 👏 🎉🍾

📖 https://t.co/Y4VNSDGq3l

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

Today is a big day

After 3 years of research, interviews, and writing, MY FIRST BOOK IS OUT!!!

At midnight, I obsessively hit refresh on my Kindle and Audible until - it felt like magic - it appeared. I hit play on the audiobook, and it was a “holy shit” moment

Here’s the pic

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

@justindross @3LAU Congrats @justindross! Very exciting

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

Excited to add @ataussig and @jeremykranz to our amazing Board with @rabois, @andrewchen, @evancharles, Ade @Base10Partners

[Alex Taussig @ataussig]

1/ I am excited to announce @LightspeedVP is leading the $65M Series C of @AllDayKitchens, & I am joining the board.

Delivery will be 25% of restaurant sales by 2025, but the back-end is broken. ADK has built the most scalable solution for kitchen infra.

https://t.co/GRqgJYXvlW

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

Less than 6 months after announcing our series B and launching Chicago, we closed $65m from @lightspeedvp, GIC, @tishmanspeyer, @MapleVCFund, @wayneting, @adrianaoun, @ilyaabyzov to hit the gas on expansion 🚀🔥🙏

Come join us: https://t.co/L4NAclxBXc

[All Day Kitchens @alldaykitchens]

We’re excited to announce a $65 million Series C funding 🚀 All in an effort to build a more innovative and sustainable future for restaurants. Huge thank you to each of our inspiring restaurant partners—without them, this wouldn’t have been possible 💙 #AllDayKitchens

[Ken Chong @kenchong]

Thanks for being a great partner @andrewchen! Excited to bring @alldaykitchens to more people 🙌

[andrew chen @andrewchen]

btw, All Day Kitchens - led by @kenchong and Matt Sawchuk - is def the absolute best ex-Uber startup on the planet right now. Executing so well