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Superclusters - The Emerging LP PodcastQualitative Signals to Look for in Emerging GPs | Jaclyn Freeman Hester | Superclusters | S2E9Jaclyn Freeman Hester is a Partner at Foundry. She joined in 2016 with a passion for supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors. Jaclyn leads direct investments in early-stage companies, often collaborating with Foundry’s partner funds. She loves working closely with founders to solve hard problems and think about the human elements of business. She invests across B2B and consumer companies that exhibit strong end-user empathy and use technology to empower individuals, unlock potential, and improve experiences.
Jaclyn helped launch Foundry’s partner fund strategy, building the portfolio to nearly 50 managers. Bringing her unique GP + LP perspective, Jacl...
2024-05-061h 21
Venture Takes - a summary of takeaways of podcasts and content in venture capitalVenturetakes 10 - Dr. Lan Xuezhao (Anthropic) on Origins podcastPodcast Episode Description
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Dr. Lan Xuezhao is the co-founder of Anthropic, an AI safety startup. She was previously an AI Resident at OpenAI.
2023-04-2303 min
Origins - Inside Venture Capital, Hosted by a GP and an LPInvesting in AI - Nick & Beezer co-host Dr. Lan XuezhaoOrigins is a podcast about the VC and LP ecosystem, co-hosted by Nick Chirls of Notation and Beezer Clarkson of Sapphire Partners. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Lan Xuezhao, founder and managing partner of Basis Set Ventures, an AI-focused seed firm based in SF. Lan is among the earliest investors in companies such as Scale AI, Quince, Path Robotics, Workstream, and Ergeon. She built and led the Corporate Development Strategy team at Dropbox during its most acquisitive time. She studied the human brain for her Ph.D and received an M.A. in Statistics, both from...
2023-03-2255 min
OnBoard!EP 20. 生成式AI/AIGC：硅谷AI大牛、投资人、创业者眼里的机会与挑战这次我们讨论当下非常火热的一个话题，Generative AI，也就是生成式AI。最近一年来，如果你对科技创业有所关注，就会发现这个领域陆续有很多创业公司，即使在资本寒冬中，估值和商业上都取得了惊人的进展。比如开发了开源文字生成图片模型 Stable Diffusion 的 Stability AI, 2019年成立, 今年就融资1.1亿美元成为独角兽。生成文字内容的公司比如copy.ai, Jasper, 都是成立不到2年的时间，就实现了数千万美金的收入。国内也有很多创业公司加入了生成式 AI 这个创业领域。
这不禁让人回想起五六年前那一波AI的热潮，技术和资本热度上似曾相识，但是商业和产品化上，会有哪些新的可能性，又会有哪些挑战呢？
Hello World, who is onboard?
这次的播客，我们就请来了硅谷的几位嘉宾，从资深AI研究员、独角兽投资人和YC创业者三个角度，一起来聊聊这个话题。这几位嘉宾，真是非常重磅（自我介绍环节，你也会听到几位嘉宾的精彩经历）：
田渊栋 Yuandong Tian (@tydsh)，很多做AI的小伙伴应该都很熟悉了，作为 Meta, 原来 Facebook AI 研究院 FAIR的资深研究员，他也是一路见证了AI，强化学习，深度学习这几年的研究进展，最近也刚刚发表了一篇长文本生成的论文。业余时间，他还是科幻小说写手！
Xuezhao (Lan) Lan (@xuezhao), 是硅谷资深投资人，Basis Set ventures 创始合伙人，前 Dropbox 投资负责人。她的基金过去几年，投资了Scale AI 等在内的几十家AI公司。
Chun Jiang (@chunonline), 从产品和设计转身创业，她所创立的 Monterey AI 入选了今年的YC，将生成式 AI 用于产品管理工具。
这次还请来了一位客座 co-host, Indigo Lu, 他是微博早期创始团队成员。离开微博后转身投资，他的公众号“Indigo 的数字镜像”，有关于AI，元宇宙，web3等话题非常深入的探讨。他的加入，让我们对技术的探讨又多了一些未来感。
有投资人的视角和判断，有创业者务实的思考和探索，更有技术人对技术的思辨和畅想。到最后发散得很有意思！感恩节周末，时间有些仓促，以后还会组织更多讨论，大家拭目以待！
Enjoy!
我们都聊了什么
02:25 嘉宾们的自我介绍
12:14 Yuandong 回顾生成式 AI 诞生的技术背景
17:35 Lan 作为投资人，如何看待这一次 AI 热潮跟以前的异同？
22:54 Chun 介绍 Monterey AI, 为什么选择这个方向
26:08 AI 生成长文本的挑战，是否需要新的模型结构来实现？
29:04 投资人如何判断生成式 AI 商业价值，如何看待有渠道优势的巨头或者公司的竞争？
33:53 通过多个模型融合可以让生成效果实现质的飞跃吗？
38:47 Yuandong 看到的现有生成式 AI 技术还存在的挑战
41:04 Chun 在做生成式 AI 创业中的挑战
43:59 生成式 AI 有哪些新的研究方向，可能的突破？
49:00 生成式 AI 如何在商业上突破只是作为玩具的商业价值
55:09 现在的生成式 AI 太贵吗？提供 API 的模式成立吗？
62:45 如何看待 Gartner AI Hype Cycle 中，生成式 AI 在见顶前夕？
我们聊到的公司和种种
Stability AI: 开源文字生成图片模型 Stable Diffusion 母公司
DALL·E 2：人工智能公司 OpenAI 开发的文字生成图片工具
Jasper: AI 生成长文本内容公司
Copy.ai: AI 辅助写作工具
Scale AI：从AI数据标注起家的AI数据工具独角兽
Scale AI 最近发布的AI生成产品图片工具 Forge
Yuandong 最新的研究：论文，代码
Yuandong 提到的清华大学的论文：DPM-Solver: A Fast ODE Solver for Diffusion Probabilistic Model Sampling in Around 10 Steps
Chun 提到的 AI 生成图片公司：Artsio，rosebud.ai，vizcom，Interior AI
Gartner Hype Cycle for AI 2022
推荐的文章
Sequoia Capital 关于生成式 AI 的文章：Generative AI: A Creative New World
Indigo 的文章： 机器之心的进化 / 理解 AI 驱动的软件 2.0 智能革命
Google 2017年提出 Transformer 的介绍文章：Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding
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免责：节目中的观点都是嘉宾和主持人个人观点，不代表所在机构观点，亦不构成任何投资建议。
2022-12-011h 09
DrinksWithAVC (DWAVC)DWAVC: Lan Xuezhao | Ep. 17DrinksWithAVC presents episode seventeen, featuring the trailblazing Dr. Lan Xuezhao, Founding Partner of Basis Set Ventures, a firm making waves with its women-led team. Lan's impressive background spans from spearheading the Corporate Development Strategy at Dropbox to unraveling the complexities of the human brain for her Ph.D. in Psychology and mastering statistics at the University of Michigan. She's also shaped strategies for Fortune 500 companies at McKinsey in both New York and Shanghai. Join Vik and Bree as they dive into Lan's rich family history, recount her global escapades, and unpack her expert insights on big data, AI, growth...
2022-04-281h 33
Voices of Women in Venture 🌊Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set Ventures on using data science along with human psychology to assess deals, finding LP/GP fit, founder super powers measurement, and conviction based investing. Podcast: Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set Ventures on using data science along with human psychology to assess deals, finding LP/GP fit, founder super powers measurement, and conviction based investing.Pub date: 2021-07-13Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:Episode 166 | Lan XuezhaoGet Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday’s episode is with Lan Xuezhao, founding partner of Basis Set Ventures which has raised $301M across t...
2021-12-0239 min
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managersLan Xuezhao of Basis Set Ventures on using data science along with human psychology to assess deals, finding LP/GP fit, founder super powers measurement, and conviction based investing.Today’s episode is with Lan Xuezhao, founding partner of Basis Set Ventures which has raised $301M across two funds. Lan has extensively studied AI, data science, and human psychology, and with Basis Set, she has combined those elements to bring a very unique approach to investing. Lan’s background in corporate development at Dropbox and management at McKinsey has contributed to her data driven approach to sourcing and investing. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan. We chat about Lan’s unique investment philosophy, how she found GP/LP fit for Fun...
2021-07-1339 min
Venture ConfidentialEp. #21, Feat. Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set VenturesIn episode 21 of Venture Confidential, Lan Xuezhao, Founding Partner at Basis Set Ventures, describes how she went from a career in Corp Dev at Dropbox to later founding a venture firm that invests in companies that improve people's work efficiency.
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2018-09-2100 minVenture ConfidentialEp. #21, Feat. Lan Xuezhao of Basis Set VenturesIn episode 21 of Venture Confidential, Lan Xuezhao, Founding Partner at Basis Set Ventures, describes how she went from a career in Corp Dev at Dropbox to later founding a venture firm that invests in companies that improve people’s work efficiency.The post appeared first on Heavybit.
2018-09-2138 min