🚨 9-1-1 hold times in my city of Oakland can last as long as 20 min! 😵
@8ENs, 4x founder and @amidlabs fellow, is taking that problem head on with his new AI company, @call_hyper.
Hyper is building voice AI for government, to help triage the massive surplus demand from citizens for communication, like 911, 311, requests for info, etc.
Amid is excited to call Hyper one of our first investments, alongside stellar co investors like @ripple_ventures, 2|Twelve, the founders of @OpenGovInc, @cohere , @getclearco , @pagerduty , @a16z scout check, and more.
Ben's track record speaks for itself (past startups = IPO, exit, and unicorn valuation), but it was a pleasure to see him up close at work in Amid's space in downtown San Francisco.
Ben also joined us to record an interview for the docuseries that Amid is producing with Aarmida about the AI revolution (video is a quick exerpt – follow @amidlabs for more soon)
#ai #artificialintelligence #govtech #aiagents #amid #amidlabs #amidai #voiceai
Apple Intelligence plans show Apple's commitment to their own chips as best in class for AI inference, not just on device but also powering their own private AI cloud.
Apple has the resources and leverage to design these chips AND own production capacity from TSMC etc.
This could be huge for the AI startup ecosystem, as Apple inevitably extends these imoroved capabilities to developers, with expensive cloud compute moving to the edge on Apple devices.
What does this mean for Nvidia / GCP / AWS / Azure?
Should be a good one!
✨ Delighted to share Peer2Peer’s upcoming event with @grntlng at Amid Labs! Join us and hear from incredible industry leaders like Tim Collins from @Federato_AI , Ephraim Tekle from @sigmacomputing , and Crag Wolfe from @UnstructuredIO who have dedicated their careers to building exceptional engineering teams. Available to the first 70 engineers who sign up: lu.ma/1p3313us
6. In some industries, we have a sever supply constraint.
@ChKashifAli believes that, rather than posing a risk to jobs, AI tools like @AskTaxGPT are absolutely essential to fulfilling the needs of the public.
7. Check out @AskTaxGPT , it's tax day 😅 !
And to hear the full incredible entrepreneurs journey of @ChKashifAli:
youtu.be/psi1w0-QrOk
5. @AskTaxGPT is building an AI financial advisor, which @ChKashifAli believes is as fundamental a need to USA households as @amazon Prime.
The problem, and opportunity, are massive.
3. University was far too expensive, and even coding bootcamps were financially out of reach. But @GA and @Adobe offered a fellowship program for aspiring coders with non-traditional backgrounds.
@ChKashifAli was selected for it.
4. He worked at @Adobe for 3 years, but @ChKashifAli was attracted to entrepreneurship.
His first two startups were failures.
Maybe he wasn't cut out for being a founder?
But where he had failed at business, he was successful in love, and got married.
This mean new tax questions. @AskTaxGPT was born.
1. @ChKashifAli came to the USA from Pakistan with $169 in his pocket, and a heart full of determination.
Now he's the co-founder of @AskTaxGPT
Here is his story:
Grant Long retweeted
A film crew just came by to feature Orange House 2.0 in the Amid documentary
You can still move in before we’re on Netflix, we’re searching for a roommate
Crew includes @grntlng @itsmattstoner @amidlabs
Grant Long retweeted
moving from NYC to SF for 3 months for a fellowship to work on my startup and alongside 30-40 other cracked founders at the new @amidlabs.
anyone within the artillery distance of downtown SF looking for a potential summer roommate or sublet? (from late April)
It's important that AI compute isn't forever controlled by a few big tech conglomerates.
Great convo with @eshanchordia of @luminoai about the work they're doing to prevent that future, to decentralize the compute infrastructure for artificial intelligence.
Check out the interview!
@amidlabs #ai #blockchain #gpu
Thank you @grntlng for a great chat!
@realyogeshdarji and I are building @luminoai so that everyone in the world has access to fast, cheap, and available compute and can build AI models.
Watch the full interview here 👉youtu.be/lBWArZuNwZ4?si=36Tx…
AI Docu Series
Call for participants in SF Bay Area
Film crew with experience producing for VICE and other top media outlets, in town 4/8-4/11
This series of documentaries is about the startups, entrepreneurs, researchers, and technologies behind the AI revolution taking place in San Francisco and the greater bay area
We have an overall optimistic perspective on the technology and the region
If you are a fit, comment and I will DM you to coordinate
Tag other folks we should include
#ai #documentary #sf #bayarea @amidlabs
What the hell is going on in downtown SF? 😳
I’ll tell you…
Here, once again, many of the most intelligent, hard working, creative, entrepreneurial spirits in the world are coming together to build the future.
San Francisco, and the greater Bay Area, are proving again, to me, and to the world, that this is THE hub for technological and business innovation.
The startups and companies being created right here, right now, will impact all of our lives.
I won’t sugarcoat it. SF is working through issues. More slowly than I’d like to see. We can and we MUST do better. I’ll probably write more about that in the future.
And, despite what some techno-optimists will say, I personally think that there WILL be downstream challenges from Artificial Intelligence that we as a society better get a head start on working through. I’ll probably write more on that as well.
But today, I want to celebrate a group of builders that I’m incredibly impressed by and grateful for.
In February I started a thing, in downtown San Francisco: @amidlabs.
Amid is a commitment to this place, to startups, and to this AI revolution.
We host an exclusive 12-week Fellowship program for founders and builders. I’m excited to shine the spotlight on our first two cohorts and 30 fellows.
@sarahepinner - Co-Founder, CEO of @join_beni
@wolfofbaystreet - Co-Founder, CEO of @thred_ai
@artathecanadian - Co-Founder, CTO of @thred_ai
@josephrjohnson - Co-Founder, CEO of LedgerUp
@baileygspell - Co-Founder, CTO of LedgerUp
@AlexYarosh45197 - Co-Founder, CEO of CustomLeads
@DweckAlan - Co-Founder (stealth)
@HafsaWarraich - Founder, CEO of Agit
@giovignone - Co-Founder of @octane_security
@nateostro - Co-Founder of @octane_security
@CalebJohn24 - Co-Founder, CEO of @joinpongo
@hi_jamari - Co-Founder of @joinpongo
@coffeewithone - Co-Founder, CEO of Octolane AI
Michael Frye - Founder, CTO of BigPicture
Katherine Wang - Co-Founder of PartnerHQ
Stan Liu- Co-Founder of PartnerHQ
@yoland_yan - Co-creator of Drip Art
Robin Huang - Co-creator of Drip Art
@DearDonald - Director of Tech for @closegap_org
@newsaddiction - Founder, CEO of Daxe
Gufran Mirza - Daxe
@8ENs - Co-Founder, CEO of Hyper
@alecdewitz - Co-Founder of @joincadre
@ObinnaAka - Founder of @yoursidekic
@masterfung - Founder of @ninesunsai
@tomsmoker - Co-Founder (stealth)
Chris Rec - Co-Founder (stealth)
@itsKinjalNandy - Founder (stealth)
@yiqiw_ - Founder & CEO at @aimerce_ai
You are inspiring me with your hard work, and I’m grateful for the leap of faith you’ve taken with Amid.
Give these founders and companies a follow and some love in the comments, please!
And get in touch if you want to learn more about the lab. Our doors are open!
Grant Long retweeted
6 months ago, I raised 500k from a16z @speedrun to build The Promenade Studios - where we build the video games that were not possible before AI.
Since then, we've built the best AI-powered video game in the world.
Here's my full, unedited demo day pitch.
Frustrating listening to "important" people talk TikTok ban, & spying on their top secret convos locations etc
You are being egotistical
The threat is that burried in the incredible algorithm, which breads 1of1 feeds for every user, is an untraceable influence engine
Period.