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We hosted our first AI Frontier dinner series mapping AI’s evolution with more to come in 2025. It was an exceptional evening that unfolded on the cusp of NeurIPS, one of the leading AI Research conferences, as Defined and Fasken hosted Gary Marcus, one of AI's most prescient and influential voices, for an intimate fireside chat and dinner with founders, investors, and family offices to explore what's next in AI. As a cognitive scientist, entrepreneur, and Professor Emeritus at NYU, Marcus was notably the first to challenge the prevailing belief that mere scaling would lead to Artificial General Intelligence. During the gathering, Marcus shared insights from his influential works, including "Rebooting AI" and his recent bestseller "Taming Silicon Valley," recognized by The New Yorker as one of 2024's best books. His foresight proved timely as industry leaders like Google now acknowledge the necessity of new innovations in AI development to surpass scaling law limitations. The event attracted notable attendees, including CEOs and founders of Trulioo, Sanctuary AI, and Inverted AI, highlighting the significance of Marcus's insights for leading innovators in the field. Special appreciation to Fasken and Shahrooz Nabavi for facilitating this enlightening evening of knowledge exchange with one of AI's foremost critical thinkers. #AIFrontier

We’ve been hard at work with our partners AMD to optimize training for AMD Instinct GPUs. AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs possess beefier hardware specs and higher theoretical throughput than H100s, but the ROCm software and firmware stack lags behind the CUDA stack. We’re excited to share a critical milestone towards this goal: FlashAttention-2 (FA2) and Mamba-2 backward kernels on AMD MI300X that surpass NVIDIA H100. This enables us to continue training frontier foundation models such as our Zamba2 series faster and at a lower cost utilizing AMD platform. The full blog post with detailed technical analysis is available on: Zyphra - https://lnkd.in/gZ8BV6js AMD (ROCm Blog) - https://lnkd.in/gwTfgYwD We’d like to thank both TensorWave and Cirrascale Cloud Services for providing access to MI300X nodes for development.

Congratulations and thank you to RAISE Global for an amazing #RAISEGlobalSummit. Way to go Benjamin Black, Adam Marchick, Scott Dubin at Akkadian Ventures on creating such a special community of GPs and LPs from around the world to earnestly collaborate on building the future of venture capital. As we are seeing AI companies tear past the growth rates of legacy SaaS businesses in multiple categories, it was great to share learnings and concrete applications where companies are rapidly scaling value for customers on the AI Renaissance panel. It was a delight to bring forward Defined's insights shaping the #AIFrontier alongside other phenomenal investors Jeff Herbst of GFT Ventures, Sandhya Venkatachalam of Axiom Partners, Kevin Novak of Rackhouse Venture Capital, Itamar Novick of Recursive Ventures and Adam Marchick advancing the field together. #EmergingManagers #VentureCapital #AI

Experience the superior performance of Zyphra's Zamba2-7B model, a 7-billion parameter hybrid marvel, trained on the pioneering Zyda-2 dataset and leading the pack in model efficiency, suitable for both on-device and cloud solutions. ➡️ https://nvda.ws/4h9qmeT Get Zamba2-7B now, available as an NVIDIA NIM microservice for seamless enterprise integration and deployment.

🚀 Defining the AI Frontier at the Kauffman Fellows Summit! 🚀 It was incredible for Defined to be a part of making the Global Kauffman Fellows Summit in Montreal happen this week. We brought together some of the brightest minds in tech and venture capital from around the world (600 VCs + LPs) and it was an honour to lead two conversations that set the stage for the future of AI. 💡 A Conversation with Martin Kon, President & COO of Cohere Loved doing a fireside with Martin Kon, to explore leveraging the immense potential of production-ready, scalable, and efficient AI applications. 💡 Building Frontier AI: A Deep Dive with Zyphra and Valence Labs Went down the rabbit hole on what it takes to build cutting-edge AI featuring two pioneers Krithik Puthalath, Founder & CEO of Zyphra and Therence Bois, Co-Founder & COO of Valence Labs acquired by Recursion. 💡Harley Finkelstein at Shopify and Elliott Robinson at Bessemer Venture Partners got us all pumped up sharing their story of scaling and how they are leveraging AI to transform e-commerce. We heard from Louis Tetu at Coveo who brought clarity to turning AI hype into tangible business outcomes. While Raquel Urtasun at Waabi shared AI's role in advancing self-driving technology and bringing AI to the physical world. Thank you to the amazing Kauffman team for making this event a success and a huge shoutout to Canada’s representation at the summit. Ela Borenstein of BDC (chair of our group) Ajay Gopal Alex Baker Alicia Lenis, Code Cubitt Eleonore Jarry George Babu Joanna Harries Michelle Scarborough Lesley Esford Margaret Wu Mia Morisset Mike McCauley Rob Barbara Shirley Speakman and the honorary Sandra Novotni. It was stellar to see you there: John Rikhtegar Tom Lowden Jill Earthy Chris Arsenault Jérôme ICD.D, IAS.A Jaime Christian Krish Kohli and too many to name!   #kauffmanfellows #AIFrontier #VC #venturecapital

Excited to be exploring what it takes to Build Frontier AI with Zyphra and Valence Labs at the Global Kauffman Fellows Summit Sept 15-18 in Montreal. Krithik Puthalath, Founder & CEO of Zyphra, a Defined portfolio company, backed by Intel Capital and Future Ventures (Steve Jurvetson) is pioneering a multimodal agent system that integrates cutting-edge research in next-generation neural network architectures (SSM hybrids), long-term memory, and reinforcement learning to move us beyond the capabilities of the Transformer architecture that brought us ChatGPT. He will be joined by Therence Bois, Co-Founder & COO of Valence Labs, a first-mover in using deep learning to accelerate drug discovery that was supported by one of the god fathers of AI Yoshua Bengio and acquired by Recursion to become their research engine dedicated to industrializing scientific discovery to radically improve lives. This talk is part of the AI special interest group at Kauffman Fellows I co-chair with Laura Gaviria Halaby, Srini Ananth, Leticia M. Jauregui Casanueva and Baris Aksoy that represents 300+ global VCs and corporations dedicated to advancing the frontier of what is possible with AI by collaborating on investments, theses and frameworks for company building. #AIFrontier #Data #AI #KauffmanFellows #FrontierAI #deeplearning #DrugDiscovery #StateSpaceModels

Pumped to be taking the stage at the Global Kauffman Fellows Summit on September 16th in Montreal for a fireside with Martin Kon, President and COO of Cohere. With Cohere securing a massive $500 million in Series D funding, boosting its valuation to an impressive $5.5 billion, all eyes are on AI's future. At Defined, we have been examining AI’s staggering $600 billion infrastructure expenditure and will explore with Martin the critical theme of building production-ready, scalable, and efficient AI applications - a conversation at the heart of AI's $4.6 trillion opportunity to reshape how industries operate and redefine the future of work itself. We look forward to the valuable insights that will be shared during this session and the opportunity to engage with leaders who are at the forefront of innovation in AI. Summit details: https://lnkd.in/grczY78y #AIFrontier #KauffmanFellows #AI #Data #Enterprise

We're launching Tembo AI today! Tembo AI's goal is to be a comprehensive solution that provides everything developers need to build #GenAI applications on #Postgres and ship their applications to production with ease. Available in Alpha for all Tembo Cloud users with a payment method on file and as an opt-in feature for all Tembo Self Hosted users. Let us know what you think!

Headed to #Appliednet24 in Nashville this September? Mark your calendar for Monday, September 9th at 2:30 PM and buckle up for an out-of-this-galaxy announcement from Quandri 🪐 ☄️ 🍿🎥 Get a sneak peek and register for the ✨ VIP treatment ✨ at our Applied Systems world premiere event - https://hubs.ly/Q02Khs700 #renewalintelligence #personallines #insurance #AI