Ryan McIntyre

Partner @FoundryVC, musician, dad, husband, dog lover, Boulderite, Kiwi-wannabe.

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

My tribute to Elliott Randall’s awesome intro guitar solo to Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ in the Years”. Thanks to @chad_mcdaniel for the drums and Quinn McIntyre for the keys. #favoriteguitarsolos

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

RIP Ozzy!
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[Ozzy Osbourne @OzzyOsbourne]

It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love.

We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.

Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis

[Ozzy Osbourne @OzzyOsbourne]

It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love.

We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.

Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Brad’s new book is officially out today!

[Brad Feld @bfeld]

Give First: The Power of Mentorship is officially out (today is the release date).

In honor of the release, I decided to write https://t.co/QAz4Q2JhTD to explain why I view Give First as a philosophy instead of a religion.

For all that have embraced this philosophy, contributed to it, and helped me hone and evolve it over the years, thank you.

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Happy April, fools.

[Tilde @tilderesearch]

Mechanistic interpretability is fascinating - but can it be useful? In particular, can it beat strong baselines like steering and prompting on downstream tasks that people care about?

The answer is, resoundingly, yes.

Our new blog post with @a_karvonen, Sieve, dives into the first counterfactual application of sparse autoencoders to a real downstream task, where we demonstrate Pareto dominance over existing methods.

A 🧵… ~1/8~

https://t.co/SF7cZ82haD

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Impressive. AI iterating and improving so fast.

[Etched @Etched]

Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game.

We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research.

Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!):

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

'Tis the season! https://t.co/yKZPFgg3YA

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

I lent some of my guitar stylings to this cool ambient/chill track from my friend @chad_mcdaniel.

https://t.co/Odq3ESutXq

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Ubiquitous and computationally intensive workloads eventually get ASICs. Cool company building cool tech: @Etched makes purpose-built silicon to massively accelerate inference in transformer-based models vs GPUs.

[Etched @Etched]

Meet Sohu, the fastest AI chip of all time.

With over 500,000 tokens per second running Llama 70B, Sohu lets you build products that are impossible on GPUs. One 8xSohu server replaces 160 H100s.

Sohu is the first specialized chip (ASIC) for transformer models. By specializing, we get way more performance: Sohu can’t run CNNs, LSTMs, SSMs, or any other AI models.

Today, every major AI product (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Sora) is powered by transformers. Within a few years, every large AI model will run on custom chips.

Here’s why specialized chips are inevitable:

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Super cool! @mixhalo bringing real-time translation to events/conferences/etc.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Mixhalo’s latest feature uses AI to beam real-time translation to phones at events https://t.co/RdOgvQWjhH

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Fall is upon us.

https://t.co/yKZPFgg3YA

[Foundry @FoundryVC]

Announcing Foundry 2022
https://t.co/xAGMSPbswl

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Wordle 545 2/6

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My string of Wordle luck continues!

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

@zachcoelius Congrats, Zach!

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Wordle 541 2/6

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[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Boom! Haven’t gotten it in two in a while.

Wordle 532 2/6

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[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

@thedatavc @645ventures Congrats!!!

[Ryan McIntyre @ryan_mcintyre]

Congrats to @FoundryVC portfolio company @parallel_domain on their Series B funding!

[Kevin McNamara @kev_mcnamara]

Super proud to announce our $30M Series B today🎉 wouldn't be possible without the incredible people working hard to make @parallel_domain not only the best synthetic data platform in the world, but also the best team in the world. Read more on our blog! https://t.co/C4FDUOi6wx

[Chris Moody @chrismoodycom]

1) For the @TwitterBoulder / @Gnip folks impacted by the layoffs, @foundryvc is planning to host a "What's Next?" happy hour on 11/30 with our team & execs from local companies. I have a spreadsheet of folks impacted from @jqiu. Make sure your name is on it!