fraser @Fraser

vc at @sparkcapital past: head of product at @openai; co-founder/ceo of an AI startup that was acquired by Airbnb fraserkelton.com Joined December 2006

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fraser @Fraser

31 minutes ago

use a human is now an ai tool call 🤔

Poke @interaction

43 minutes ago

Some things still need a human. Poke now has humans helping it out. Powered by @mercor_ai and @whop, Poke Human is in Preview for Ultra subscribers starting today!

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Baseten will be one of the defining infrastructure companies of this era. Its Inference Cloud powers today's most advanced AI apps, and as post-training becomes inseparable from inference, they're working with app builders to create closed-loop learning systems that turn production data into compounding model improvement. We're proud to have led or co-led its $40M Series B, $75M Series C, and now its $1.5B Series F. It's Spark's second largest investment ever, behind only Anthropic. The team is special and the market still underestimates the size of the opportunity. We couldn't be more excited for what's to come.

Tuhin Srivastava @tuhinone

3 days ago

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Poke @interaction

7 days ago

Say hi to Poke Ultra! 🌴 The ultimate Poke experience, with frontier intelligence powering every action. Also, starting today: Poke can now create & deploy websites on yourname.poke.com!

Poke @interaction

2 weeks ago

Claim your Poke handle today! 💌 poke.com/claim - Receive emails rerouted into your Gmail inbox today - We're gradually rolling out email sending - There's more to come later this month (samyok.poke.com) 👀

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Mikowai @MikowaiA

a week ago

It is becoming household knowledge that data and supporting infra is the bottleneck for solving embodied intelligence What’s equally clear is @philippswu, @YideShentu and the @xdofai crew are the foremost team to solve this problem. They pioneered the modern teleop setup through their work with GELLO, and are on the bleeding edge of physical world data collection with their work on UMI, ego and more. Beyond data, XDOF supports the robotics ecosystem through world class evals, benchmarks, software tools and hardware XDOF is a team of researchers building for researchers, coupled alongside a world class hardware and operations teams that were key to standing up Tesla’s Gigafactory, and Uber international operations. And they’ve quickly become the partner of choice for sophisticated physical world data buyers As a part of coming out of stealth, XDOF is releasing the largest open sourced bimanual manipulation dataset. For an industry starved of data, this is a huge opportunity for the researcher and builder community We at @sparkcapital could not be more thrilled to partner with XDOF, alongside our friends at @ThriveCapital and @a16z

Philipp Wu @philippswu

a week ago

Announcing @xdofai: We’ve raised $70 million to build the core robotic infrastructure ecosystem for robot foundation models. My cofounders Fred (@YideShentu), Nemo (@itsnemojin) and I have been pursuing the dream of general purpose robots for our entire lives. After work at

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Spark Capital @sparkcapital

a week ago

We are delighted to have closed $3.3B in new funds to continue backing companies from the earliest stages through growth. Grateful to the founders we back and our limited partners for their continued partnership.

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Ben Barry @benbarry

2 weeks ago

Back in ~2018, I was the only designer at a tiny startup, and I was desperately trying to hire a second designer. We had very few applicants, and I was begging people to apply! That startup was OpenAI... I hope this time around is different.

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TBPN @tbpn

2 weeks ago

Generalist CEO @peteflorence says robotics models are in a transition period similar to the step change between GPT-2 and GPT-3. They're "starting to cross over into levels of performance where these things are commercially viable for a number of different applications." "We think this is a crossover point where we have a general model starting to be able to hit levels of reliability, speed, and improvisational intelligence where we can start to get these things out there." "Very much like — you take a GPT-2-level model, you scale it to a GPT-3-level model, and certain types of commercial applications start to become viable."

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fraser @Fraser

3 weeks ago

As @marvinvonhagen says, Poke is inevitable

Poke @interaction

3 weeks ago

Say hi to the new Poke! 🌴 Now officially approved by Apple to text on Apple Messages. As the first and only AI agent. Chat now: Poke.com

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fraser @Fraser

3 weeks ago

These models, they just want to learn

Generalist @GeneralistAI

3 weeks ago

We've raised $400M in new funding. This capital goes toward one mission: building general intelligence for the physical world and making it useful to everyone.

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Elicit @elicitorg

4 weeks ago

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 elicit.com/api

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Forbes @Forbes

4 weeks ago

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. forbes.com/sites/iainmart… (Photo: Guerin Blask For Forbes) #ForbesMidas

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fraser @Fraser

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

@jack_w_rae Congrats Jack to you and the entire team

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

@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

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

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 generalistai.com/blog/apr-02-20…

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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Nabeel Hyatt @nabeel

3 months ago

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.

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

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

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

@clarityx Agree!

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fraser @Fraser

3 months ago

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 Poke.com - now available for everyone

Poke @interaction

3 months ago

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