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One of the coolest parts of being at @SwordHQ is seeing what our AI team is building underneath the products.
Not just better models, but the infrastructure needed to make AI work properly in healthcare: agents like Phoenix that can reliably navigate complex clinical flows, long-term memory, real-time voice, safety systems, evals, and more.
A lot of the hard work in AI healthcare is turning intelligence into something you can actually trust to deliver care. Every time I speak with @RicardoRei7 I find myself learning new things.
Not universal across families: Llama 4 judges skew slightly harsh on themselves, Claude judges land close to neutral on HealthBench. That's the encouraging part: this looks trainable, not an inherent ceiling on LLM-as-judge. The flip side is stakes for RL: judge bias in a training loop is a gradient, not just a leaderboard artifact, and should accelerate reward hacking on tasks only one system can currently solve.
Full post by @RicardoRei7 and Jose Pombal: sword.com/research/judges-st…
Two stories on @vkhosla and why he is a Silicon Valley legend:
In 2019, before entering the market, I was trying to raise our Series A in Europe, thinking it would be easier since that's where we started. After nine months and countless meetings, we were rejected by all the VCs there. We had about three months of runway and no Plan B.
As a Hail Mary, one night, I sent a cold email to Khosla Ventures (out of desperation, really) and, to my surprise, not only did I get a reply, but we also signed a term sheet after just four weeks.
Contrary to all other European VCs, Vinod didn’t care about who we knew, where we studied, or where we came from. The only thing that mattered was the science behind what we built and our ability to discuss our ideas with the best.
And since then, he's been one of our strongest and most insightful investors. For example, I started thinking about Bloom (our fastest-growing solution) after he pushed me to think beyond musculoskeletal pain and expand our addressable market.
And everyone who knows Vinod knows that when he pushes you to think about something, it always implies an intensive live oral exam on why you're not doing it now and what needs to change.
And that's what greatness is all about: true conviction, genius, and the ability to push for change.
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Really excited about this kickass company. Seldom seen growth like this
We're excited to announce Sword Predict, the first solution that stops unnecessary surgery & costs in their tracks.
Predict uses AI to detect at-risk members & change their projected course of treatment, saving employers up to $5M in medical cost a year.
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2/ Now, in 2023, Sword’s success is so remarkable that Harvard Business School published a case study on us and how, against all odds, we’ve gone from being left for dead to one of the fastest growing companies in the US.
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