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Tola Capital Closes Fund III to Invest in the Next Generation of AI Companies
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Tola Capital Closes Fund III to Invest in the Next Generation of AI Companies
Full ArticleTola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, closes largest fund at $230M
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TechCrunch: Tola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, closes largest fund at $230M
Full ArticleBiden’s AI EO hailed as broad, but not deep without legislation to match
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TechCrunch covered the Biden administration’s announced details of a long-awaited executive order on AI. Sheila Gulati, co-founder of Tola Capital, shared her perspective, saying the EO showed a “clear intention to walk the line of promoting innovation while protecting citizens.”
Full ArticlePractically Intelligent E6: Ethics and Bias in AI Models
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Giada Pistilli, Principal Ethicist at Hugging Face discusses how training data bias in AI has unpredictable downstream implications.
Full ArticleStartups are hitting a road block when selling their AI to big companies. Investors and founders explain how to get around it.
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Sheila Gulati said procurement teams are newly focused on data concerns around AI, including
privacy, explainability, regulations, and other considerations.
Practically Intelligent E5: Reliable Software Development with LLMs
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In the latest episode of Practically Intelligent, Sinan Ozdemir and Akshay Bhushan chatted with Adam Azzam, PhD, AI Product Lead at Prefect, about the challenges of merging traditional software engineering with AI engineering. We go over why integrating LLMs present such a challenge to many developers, and how Marvin AI, a new open-source tool, can help. We also talk about the concept of Ambient AI and how we can fuse AI into the existing developer lifecycle.
Full ArticlePractically Intelligent EP4: Evaluating Large Language Models with Nathan Lambert
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In this episode, Nathan Lambert shares valuable insights from his experience as a Research Scientist at HuggingFace 🤗. We dive deep into the nuances of evaluating large language models (LLMs) and the role of the HuggingFace’s Open LLM Leaderboard.
Full Article8 VCs explain why there’s good reason to be optimistic about cybersecurity
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TechCrunch checked in with investors in cybersecurity to hear their thoughts on the potential impact of large language models and generative AI as well as the funding landscape in the cybersecurity space.
Full Article15 investors lift the lid on the biggest surprises of H1 2023
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TechCrunch asked 15 investors what they found to be the most unexpected trends of the year so far, including Tola Capital Managing Director, Sheila Gulati.
Full Article15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023
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As part of ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year, including Tola Capital Managing Director, Sheila Gulati.
Full ArticlePractically Intelligent EP3: Vector Databases
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Learn about all the hype behind vector databases and the future of how developers will work with embeddings. Also hear how to compare different vector database options available on the market today.
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