Founder @finsterai, trying to 10x financial knowledge work. Previously AI researcher @GoogleDeepMind, @QueensCam, @UCL. Angel https://xitter.cf/t.co/zsqm77gOjw.
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Sid Jayakumar retweeted
Excited to announce our discussion group leaders for Breaking the Bank
@annielamont (@oakhcft)
@phazlehurst (@synctera)
@_PegahEbrahimi (@FPVventures)
@VCRebecca (@CanvasVC)
@latifperacha (@M13Company)
@secondrob (@vinylequity)
@sidfix (@finsterai)
+ Chris Dean (Treasury Prime) & Saisi Peter (Casap)
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
to me, the greatest sadness of all is the banality of most people's lives
i'll spend time with my non-elite friends, and it's clear that their lives are devoid of heroism and lore
they lock in/clock in, but they fight no great battles, they dash no great foes
they drop by a club or bar, but find no great loves there
they travel the world, but it is by no means an adventure
they return home, but they are not welcomed by a triumph – no, all they have are their succulents and the pile of dirty laundry they failed to do before they left
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
Alphabet was too fat and happy to lead the generative AI revolution, or so said the conventional tech wisdom a year ago.
The company looked like it had been caught off-guard by ChatGPT, and didn’t have the competitive culture and mindset needed to win in the “age of efficiency.”
Google researchers might have come up with the “transformers” architecture that paved the way for the current AI mania, but most left the company years ago. Its early AI deployments drew mockery for overly woke and inaccurate results. Its search monopoly suddenly looked vulnerable. A government antitrust suit threatened its advertising money-machine.
Microsoft, meanwhile, had built a tight partnership with the new tech darling, OpenAI. A revived Meta was drawing plaudits for its operational rigor. Nvidia, not long ago a middle-tier chip-maker, was now touted as the standard-bearer for the new AI era, with a market cap to match.
But Alphabet this week showed emphatically that it is ceding technology leadership to no one, and indeed is poised to reap some substantial rewards for its steady commitment to costly basic research.
The first announcement came Monday, when Google detailed a breakthrough in quantum computing: its new Willow chip overcomes a long-standing problem with error rates, bringing a technology that promises exponential increases in computing power much closer to reality.
On Tuesday, Alphabet’s Waymo unit saw longtime rival Cruise fold its tent, underscoring its wide lead in autonomous vehicles. Waymo continues to expand its real-live robotaxi service to new cities while GM’s Cruise backpedals and Tesla’s much-hyped effort remains on the drawing board.
On Wednesday came a major update of Google’s flagship Gemini AI model — twice as fast as the previous one—alongside a host of initiatives around agents and related AI services. The new offerings will boost the “AI Overviews” that Google now delivers alongside many search results, a feature that looked at first like a scraped-together catch-up play but has proven quite successful.
Alphabet now looks remarkably well-positioned for what promises to be a pivotal 2025. The stock is up more than 11% since Monday and nearly 45% for the year — a cool $600 billion increase in market cap.
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
Silicon Valley badly needs a 3-hour long @AcquiredFM podcast about Bloomberg, because no one here seems to fully grasp what it is or why it’s so hard to disrupt.
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
Analysts often track metrics like Net revenue retention (NRR) for SaaS companies that aren't listed in an income statement or balance sheet and require manually going through filings and earnings calls.
With Finster, you can use a single instruction to extract these metrics automatically, view the ground truth source text, and visualise them - all under 30 seconds.
Reach out to learn more.
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The American legal system imprisoned the founder of Silkroad to life, chased Mike Lynch around the world through extradition ( only to be found innocent ) and hounded Aaron Swartz to his death, amongst other things.
I don’t no the details for Pavel, but the US is no haven.
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VC funded startup Marwadi
with slack, crm, business with
aws, analytics... with whatsapp
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
AI agents are one of the hottest areas of development & investment in AI
Here's a deep dive into the ecosystem from @Prosus_Ventures:
1. AI agents + AgentOps landscape
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Bittersweet ending to our Darktrace investment. Proud of what everyone there achieved and fortunate to have been a passenger in the journey. Maybe I can finally afford that new computer now :) stocks.apple.com/A5jp4tTZzS_…
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Can AI agents make you a billionaire? cc @finsterai every.to/napkin-math/the-one…
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Insurance is having it's moment. The stodgy, old, profitable industry is just getting a shift in distribution.
Possibly tied with healthcare as the last big profit pool to be disrupted
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
Nowhere in the world does meeting rooms like Paris.
Discussing how AI breakthroughs can help build a new gilded age this morning. Thanks to @jpmorgan for hosting our breakfast.
@MistralAI @OwkinScience @finsterai @deepset_ai @giskard_ai, AdaptiveML, Holistic.
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We also think we’re “one heck of a team” or trying to be! Building agents for verticals requires bringing together folks across product, UX, AI, Eng and domain expertise. We’re hiring across all those!
Woke up to see this in @sytaylor’s newsletter re @finsterai! Thanks Simon!
Still early doors for us but am super excited about what Finster’s Agents can do for finance/capital markets. Let people focus on the important bits & let AI do goal directed research/analysis/comps etc
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
It’s really interesting how working on one business now isn’t as glamorous to many as working on like 10 at a time when before the advice had always been “focus on one thing and do it super well”you’re killing it Matt.
Sid Jayakumar retweeted
Of course it was Islamophobic but no one wants to take say that because the base believes all this same nonsense. This is what happens when politics go awry and leaders, well, don’t lead.
'For the third time was it Islamophobic?'
'Nick it was wrong.'
'I'll have to curtail the interview there, enough already.'
＠NickFerrariLBC cuts off the Illegal Immigration Minister after he refuses to confirm whether Lee Anderson's comments were Islamophobic.
