The AI $100 Million Revenue Club
Everyday there’s a new unicorn. It used to be a status that meant that a startup has graduated from being a startup and into a mature company worth being listed on the public stock market backed by revenue. In today’s climate becoming a unicorn is increasingly a signal of investor enthusiasm than how mature a company is, with companies with $1-5 million in revenue being awarded the status.
Consequently, Shasta Ventures’ Kenn So and I are creating and maintaining a list of flying unicorns (Pegacorns) – AI companies that have reached the $100M revenue milestone and have graduated from startups to mature companies. Find out which companies made the inaugural list and what skills their founders possess.
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- Why You Need A Time-Series Database: This conversation with Timescale founders (Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman) took place a few weeks after Timescale raised a massive funding round and achieved unicorn status.
- The 2022 AI Index: I discuss key sections of the fifth edition of the AI Index with Jack Clark, co-director of the AI Index Steering Committee. This year the report contains a chapter dedicated to AI Ethics where they focus on new benchmarks and metrics that have been developed to measure bias in AI systems.
Data & Machine Learning Tools and Infrastructure
- Pathways from Google: This is a new system that orchestrates distributed computation for accelerators. A very early example of Pathways in action comes from language models where it was used to train PaLM, a 540-billion parameter, dense decoder-only Transformer model.
- Large-scale distributed training with TorchX and Ray: Any existing TorchX component can now run on top of Ray. This allows developers to easily run scalable and distributed PyTorch workloads.
- General Availability of Delta Live Tables: The first data integration framework that uses a declarative approach to build reliable data pipelines while managing infrastructure automatically. This means analysts and engineers will spend a lot less time on tooling.
- Kubric: A new Python framework for generating high-quality synthetic data for computer vision applications.
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