Emergence Capital

Are we at the top of the S-Curve for AI? Likely, yes. Performance is plateauing. AI companies are scavenging for data. For example, with Whisper, OpenAI has transcribed a million hours of YouTube videos for GPT-4. Model providers can keep following this path but they won’t escape the flattening S-Curve this way. The next great training source for AI models is data produced in a work context. It's of far higher quality than what’s left of public data for training purposes, especially compared to running the dregs of the internet through the transformer mill. We have written a deeply researched piece about how startups can help us make the jump to the next S-Curve: By helping companies tap the brilliance of their people, and by building the next great AI tools with business data. We've identified four areas for startups who want to solve for breaking out of the AI plateau to build something new, useful, and powerful. Take a read, and if you're working on this problem, please get in touch! https://lnkd.in/g6M8UvzF

✨ Are you ready to join the Small Language Model (#SLM) revolution? ✨ Large Language Models (#LLMs) are so… 2023. Meanwhile, SLMs – built on the latest open source models and tailored to your data and domain – are quickly becoming the obvious, cost-effective #GenAI solution for companies of all sizes. Learn straight from the top SLM innovators at an AWS workshop next week, focused on getting started with SLMs as a complement or alternative to the major closed-source models. Our Co-Founder Brian Benedict will be one of the speakers. This is an in-person event at the AWS Loft in San Francisco. 🗓 RSVP at the link below ASAP as spots are limited and it’s filling up very fast! https://lnkd.in/e7d5px_w

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Concerned by reports that companies that have implemented #GenAI aren't actually getting 💵 business value 💵 from it? You should be concerned! Your time and investment should not be going to over-hyped tech. Rather, before committing to any GenAI initiative, you should be confident that it: ✅ Will *quickly* help grow and strengthen your business ✅ Has proven success in production ✅ Won't create security, compliance, and data privacy risks ✅ Is cost-effective in the short-term, and with predictable long-term costs. Here at Arcee AI, we're so confident that our Small Language Models (SLMs) will solve your #GenAI needs that we're now offering a ✨ MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE ✨ How can we do this? We've seen the incredible success of our existing customers – companies where our SLMs have not only proven their value, but have become a cornerstone of their 🧠 overall #AI strategy 🧠 ✅ Learn more about our money-back guarantee here: https://lnkd.in/ebhhF_D7 🙌 And email us at sales@arcee.ai when you're ready to get started 🙌

A great opportunity for the right candidate:

🏟️🏟️ Last week’s SF The GenAI Collective demo night was epic energy 🥁 🥁 In this exclusive B2B demos event at Shack15, 12 selected startups received feedback from 250+ attendees including users, prospects, and investors! 🚀 We 🤩 novel B2B app and infra use cases, tight demos, and community 💕 As an organizing team, we experimented with 🏆 new awards 🏆 ⭕ feedback circles ⭕ ofc classics from community app 👊 voting to Stephen Campbell’s signature YC startup curve therapy ☮ The event kicked off with a great recap of the B2B opportunity by Wendy Lu and Rishub Nahar of Emergence. The best demos are now immortalized in the Demo Night Hall of Fame! ( demos.genaicollective.ai). Here are the winners! 🗳️ 🏅 AWARD WINNERS • 🏆 Best Overall: Katalist • 😍 Crowd Favorite: Theneo • 🤖 Best Technology: Chalk • 🎨 Most Creative: DXM 🧑💻 FEATURED COMPANIES • Athina AI (YC W23): Collaborative IDE for teams to prototype, experiment and evaluate AI pipelines in a spreadsheet-like UI (Shiv Sakhuja) • Browserbase: Headless browsers for AI agents (Paul Klein IV) • Truewind: Next generation AI-powered accounting (Alex Lee) • Dynamic: AI-native game engine to explore any environment (Kobi Kelemen) • DXM: AI design as a service (Rix Kramlich) • Anon: Integration platform for the AI internet (Kai Aichholz) • Katalist: Visual stories with consistent characters and scenes using Storyboard AI (Andraz Zvonar) • Theneo: CoPilot for Stripe-like API docs (Ana Robakidze) • Chalk: Data platform for ML (Elliot Marx) • Pursuit: AI bid management for gov contractors (Brandon Max) • Superlinked: Vector computer (Daniel Svonava) Thanks again to Emergence Capital and Arcee.ai for partnering with us and the active participation of ~literally everyone~ in attendance who submitted nearly 1,000 pieces of invaluable feedback to the demoists! 🤩 was great to meet friends Shuchi Rana Shalini Agarwal! cc William Asel Chappy Asel Pierce Kelaita Stephen Campbell Gavin M. Doughtie Claire Xue Fahmid Kabir #GAICo #GenAICollective #B2BAI

🎉 If you're in San Francisco: the #GenAI Collective Demo Showcase hosted by Emergence Capital is happening THIS EVENING. 🗓 You can still RSVP (details below)... Our CEO Mark McQuade and our CTO Jacob Solawetz will be demo'ing Arcee AI's Small Language Model (#SLM) training platform, AND will be available for questions about our 🤯 incredible🤯 latest releases, including: 🧠 Arcee-Swarm ✨ DistillKit 🌟 Arcee-Nova. #LLM #AI #NLP https://lnkd.in/gh2AGm5J

🎉 If you're in San Francisco: the #GenAI Collective Demo Showcase hosted by Emergence Capital is happening THIS EVENING. 🗓 You can still RSVP (details below)... Our CEO Mark McQuade and our CTO Jacob Solawetz will be demo'ing Arcee AI's Small Language Model (#SLM) training platform, AND will be available for questions about our 🤯 incredible🤯 latest releases, including: 🧠 Arcee-Swarm ✨ DistillKit 🌟 Arcee-Nova. #LLM #AI #NLP https://lnkd.in/gh2AGm5J

“Rather than try to do everything ChatGPT can, Arcee.ai’s software helps accomplish a more limited set of day-to-day corporate tasks — like building a service that only fields tax-related questions, for example — without requiring as much data. “I say 99% of business use cases, you probably don’t need to know who won an Olympic gold medal in 1968,” Mark McQuade said.” Congrats to our friends at Arcee on this wonderful profile of their business by Rachel Metz at Bloomberg News:

At Mechanical Orchard, our focus is on the “how” of modernizing critical legacy systems: safely, reliably, fearlessly. The past few years have seen an explosion of examples highlighting the brittleness of important, crucial systems as they’ve aged. So we’re leaning in, hard: today, we announce the raising of $50m in a Series B round, led by GV (Google Ventures). With this round, we’ll be able to accelerate putting our technology and methodologies to work to solve this increasingly urgent issue. We thank our partners and friends for their continued support. Full press release here: https://lnkd.in/emWg9U3N