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I’m excited to introduce Secludy and share that we've raised an oversubscribed pre-seed round led by 43 and with participation from Script Capital, Precursor Ventures, Hustle Fund, Karman Ventures and some really amazing angel investors! What we’re building at Secludy: Legacy data masking techniques don’t work in this new world of AI. They are ineffective and cannot provide protection for sensitive contextual information that can be used to re-identify someone. The chances of sensitive data being leaked are too high and many companies aren’t comfortable releasing AI features as a result. Secludy is privacy-guaranteed AI training made easy. We use advanced privacy technology to generate synthetic datasets that mimic your original dataset so that you can train your AI models on your most valuable data – without risks of leaking PII. We’re a team of builders with expertise in privacy, infosec, and machine learning. I am so grateful to have an amazing co-founder by my side Mingze He,Ph.D. We’re hiring for a full stack founding engineer. DM me or Mingze if you’re interested in learning more. If you’re an AI lead running into friction with legal/compliance teams or CISO/CIO/CPO looking to learn how you can have peace of mind that your LLMs aren’t leaking sensitive data, send me a DM or checkout secludy.com

As a founder, what does your first technical hire need? A really great ML engineer? A software engineer that knows a little bit of ML? At our recent CEO & Co-founder Summit, we polled the experts: "Look for someone who can test and iterate. They need to be willing to set up the right experiments and be curious to follow where the results go. And have some software best practices so you can scale in the future." - Sharbani R., Sr Dir of Core ML at Google "A research scientist with a PhD from Stanford and several years at DeepMind is less valuable for this role, than being fluent in ML techniques and being incredibly scrappy. A great signal for this is do they have a Github where they have built a lot of projects just for fun that used ML? When you ask them questions about these projects, do their eyes light up?" - Bill MacCartney, Venture Advisor at AI Fund & fmr VP of ML at Cohere "Can they understand your business? They will need to in order to translate business requirements into code and into models. If they don’t know the technical aspects of how to do that, can they skill up quickly?" - Laurence Moroney, AI Advocacy Lead at Google & Fellow at AI Fund

Sam Altman might have zero equity in OpenAI, but his $2.8B personal portfolio is absolutely insane: - 7.6% of Reddit (currently worth $700M+) - Invested $15,000 for 2% of Stripe in 2009 (even if he’s sold / had dilution of 90%, 0.2% of Stripe today is worth $130M+) - $375M check into Helion, a nuclear-fusion startup (Microsoft is a customer) - Investment in Exowatt, which produces containerized energy systems for data centers - $180M investment in Retro, a startup with the goal of increasing human life expectancy by a full decade - Investments in multiple AI companies, including Rain AI (chips), 15% of Humane (the AI pin we’ve all seen on social media), and Limitless, which sells an AI voice-transcription necklace - Vacation homes in Napa and Hawaii - Personal line of credit with JP Morgan Chase that allows him to borrow against the value of his personal portfolio What a total baller.

Is critical for becoming an AI company to hire smart people with the right skills, with the new tools available, upskilling in the technical-coding realm has become easier, choose wisely and don’t look for perfection, iterate and improve continously, and the last key thing: be close to the business!

🌯Weekly Wrap🌯 Happy Friday... We continue to grow our presence across the tech ecosystem - each week going from strength to strength as the team builds new partnerships with founders looking to build their AI/ML, Engineering, Security & Product teams. Here are a few highlights of our current searches we are supporting. If you are interested please email [email protected] or DM one of the team. #techjobs #foundr #AI #ML #securityjobs #sfjobs

I have always strived to give my best, and now it’s time to boost the output from people who believe in me, AdalFlow, and SylphAI. AdalFlow is the library that “dropped from the sky,” helping developers build and auto-optimize LLM applications. We’ve reached nearly 1k daily downloads after just three months since first release. And we are just getting started. SylphAI’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to AI-first engineering. AdalFlow is central to that mission, and we are committed to keeping it free and open-source for developers, forever. While our SaaS offering is still in stealth, it aligns perfectly with our vision in a trillion-dollar market. LinkedIn has been the platform where I connected with most of my angel investors, VCs, and contributors. I’d love to invite anyone who resonates with our mission to grab a coffee with me. We are looking for people with experience in: 1️⃣ NLP, RAG, agent design, or auto-prompt optimization 2️⃣ LLM fine-tuning and RL/RLHF 3️⃣ Machine learning engineers passionate about open-source, content creation, DevRel, and community 4️⃣ Full-stack software engineering Feel free to DM me or send me an invite with a note, and @ people you know would be a good fit. 😁 Please kindly repost for wider reach. 🙏 #adalflow #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #llms #fullstack #hiring #nlp

This shift could bring risks to humanity in a lot of ways, and after reading an article on Vox, and I’ve been thinking about a few concerns. One is that profit might start to take priority over safety. If the main goal becomes making money for investors, there's a chance that AI safety could get less attention. I worry that they might rush AI technologies into the world without fully understanding the long-term effects Another thought I had is about control. If Sam Altman and his team have too much of it, it could mean less transparency and accountability. AI is incredibly powerful, and when only a few people control it, there’s always the risk that it could be misused Lastly, I’ve been thinking about OpenAI’s original promise. They said they’d use profits to benefit everyone, like by supporting universal basic income. But now, with this shift towards making a profit, I’m not sure if that idea will stay a priority. It seems like making money for investors might take over as the main focus You can check out the article here for more context: Vox - https://lnkd.in/dnqN2kKC #softwaredevelopment #techindustry #softwareengineering #aiandsoftware #innovationintech #digitaltransformation #softwareethics #responsibleai #agiledevelopment #openai #techaccountability #softwaredesign #cloudcomputing #devops #techtrends #datascience #softwaresecurity #programming #techleadership #sustainabletech #softwareinnovation #siliconvalley #newyork #boston #austin #seattle #sanfrancisco #losangeles #toronto #london #berlin #bangalore #singapore #telaviv #shenzhen #karachi #vancouver #dublin #melbourne #hyderabad #paris #stockholm

Go go go Entrepreneurs! What a week! Start-up CTO & ML Engineer & Platform Engineer life is fun. - Debugging problems with your app's Observability can be hard when Observability isn't working. - Turn a RAG system from a POC to a solid platform. Fun. Evaluating different embedding models, orchestrating pipelines. Categorization. Retrieval. QA. Instruction-finetuned embeddings or different models? - Finally hire a Product Partner! Getting that dev contractor ramped up. - Pitched to potential investors, customers. - Added to the roadmap. Reprioritized. - Declare more Agile processes. - Write and test a bunch of code and ship ship ship. - Evaluate Customer Service solutions. - Evaluate Feature Flagging solutions. - Big strategy discussion. - Talk to potential dev partners. - Buy back-to-school supplies for my kids. - Started designing an app with my 9-year-old (and locally-hosted LLMs) - Troubleshoot a busted humidifier in the basement. Who wants to chat about any of the above? -e #startuplife #entrepreneur #nlp #rag #cto

Congratulations to the Adaptive ML team on their $20M seed funding led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ Capital! 🚀 That reminded me of last November during ai-PULSE preparation when we had to figure out your official title, Julien Launay since the project was under wraps, and also of some interesting discussion about GPU capabilities with Olivier Cruchant during one of our VIP cocktails at Scaleway. I can only imagine how you feel about finally being able to share this initiative with the rest of the world. But how exciting it is to see another European 🇪🇺 initiative rising! A concrete initiative aiming at providing deeply personalized generative AI experiences to deliver more value to end users. Can't wait to discover more later this year, but until then: BRAVO! 🌟 #AdaptiveML #AIInnovation #GenerativeAI #TechFunding

🚀 Sam Altman doesn’t own a slice of OpenAI, and his salary’s only $65K a year. Yet, his net worth? A cool $2.8 BILLION. 💰 How? By backing over 400 companies like Stripe, Airbnb, and Reddit. 🏢💡 According to WSJ, Altman’s investment game is on par with major VC funds. He’s borrowing from JPMorgan Chase to make those big plays. Loads of startups he’s funded are either clients or partners of OpenAI. Take Helion, for example—they’re building nuclear fusion power plants! ⚡🔥 Altman dropped $375M into Helion, and Microsoft is already lined up as a buyer. Curious for more details? Check the full scoop on WSJ: [link] #Investing #Tech #OpenAI #SamAltman #StartupLife 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dMQiStz9