Jesse Heikkilä

Founder & VC at Failup Ventures. Vibe investing in early-stage companies in the US and Nordics. Previously founder/cto/product

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@agupta Need to go pitch investments in Bain and McKinsey next. The next bubble.

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@Austen While that is definitely true (reminds me of that Big Short CDS scene in Vegas), it sounds like this was a case of pure fraud / a person scamming money.

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@thsottiaux @AnthonyBerlin Every thread for me. Could give 5 right away..

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

Did someone just remove GPT image 2 model by accident and cause all of codex to stop functioning globally?

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@_lopopolo Yes, did it last week as a migration from PaaS to GKE. No issues!

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@MatthewBerman Sucks that anyone would have to wait that long to make billions with a 5-figure investment. Straight up un-American.

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@vytisbareika Happy to say that nothing wrong was done in this situation. Hello is sometimes overkill for a Finn so a nod is enough. This is intended use.

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@kodjima33 @spndn07 and @pumpdotco exist for this exactly !

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@AGrillz growth go brrr, investor likes it?

[Richard Zhang @richardfzhang]

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@InteguruAI is free to use. Thread below.

[Deepak Chhugani @dchhugani]

It is remarkable how many investors have changed their tune on this in the past 3-5 months. Dozens of funds that held the belief that SaaS > Services for years are now thinking the exact opposite.

The full stack AI services strategy is what works best to deploy AI successfully and also allows you to capture the most value. I wrote about how we’re doing that on Substack recently (link in next tweet).

Looks like the pattern is true across more industries.

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

Wait you can just do things with $29M in funding?

[Alexander Whedon @alex_whedon]

Introducing SubQ - a major breakthrough in LLM intelligence.

It is the first model built on a fully sub-quadratic sparse-attention architecture (SSA),

And the first frontier model with a 12 million token context window which is:

- 52x faster than FlashAttention at 1MM tokens
- Less than 5% the cost of Opus

Transformer-based LLMs waste compute by processing every possible relationship between words (standard attention).

Only a small fraction actually matter.

@subquadratic finds and focuses only on the ones that do.

That's nearly 1,000x less compute and a new way for LLMs to scale.

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@jamiequint Unfortunately the job isn’t that easy, but maybe they’ll acquire the expertise

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@Dimillian would be great to have direct codex access to Pro models in codex (both in the chats portion as well as codex app&cli).

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@AfterQuery @altosvc Congrats to the whole team!

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

@spencermateega Amazing work @spencermateega, the Zyn-mountains are paying dividends! Congrats to the whole team

[Jesse Heikkilä @vcjesse]

Amazed at the execution speed @spencermateega is driving at @AfterQuery. Excited to support with @FailupVC the team in the seed and Series A round. The next rocketship is here.

[Spencer Mateega @spencermateega]

For most of history, expertise was scarce, constrained by time and reach: one person, one career, one lifetime.

Now, for the first time, we can encode, evaluate, and scale it.

We believe the wisdom that once took a lifetime to build shouldn’t take a lifetime to find.

Today, we’re excited to announce that @AfterQuery has raised a $30M Series A at a $300M valuation and that we’ve since surpassed $100M in annual revenue run rate, to build the data layer of professional AI.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We're going back to the fucking moon, that's why.

[Anna Monaco @annarmonaco]

Today we’re launching the newest version of @paradigmai

When we started Paradigm, the goal was never to tack AI onto existing spreadsheets. It was to build a new type of interface that does the work for you.

Now we’re pushing that vision much further.

Workflows turn Paradigm into a system that runs research processes for you.

Connect your CRM, existing spreadsheets, Slack, email, and internal data, and let Paradigm continuously run the research workflows your team already does.

Same intuitive interface. But now a system of action.

If you tried Paradigm before, try it again.

Manual research is now a competitive liability.