On startups
- A billion dollars for JEPA
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion to build world models on the JEPA framework. Revisiting what I wrote in 2022, and the one thing I still think the plan is missing.
2 min reads likes comments - Closing two chapters
I'm leaving TTT Studios after seven and a half years and Amanda AI after three. What I learned growing an engineering team from ten to fifty, and co-founding a company through a pandemic.
2 min reads likes comments - What a face company does when nobody gathers
Three months into the pandemic, with no conferences on the calendar. What we're trying, what we decided not to build, and how it feels to run a startup whose market disappeared.
2 min reads likes comments - MWC is cancelled. Our entire business is people in a room
The world's biggest mobile conference was cancelled over the new coronavirus. A founder's worries, a few weeks in, with friends in Wuhan under lockdown.
2 min reads likes comments - Thousands of faces in a hotel lobby
Our first live conference check-ins. Wait times dropped a lot. The model was the part that worked from day one. Lighting, queues and printers were not.
2 min reads likes comments - Starting a face recognition company, with eyes open
I've co-founded a company that does face recognition on device. Why on device, why conference check-in first, and the lines we won't cross.
2 min reads likes comments - Two years of 3D faces on a phone: what I got wrong
Leaving the selfie-to-3D-face app I helped build out of my thesis. The technology mostly worked. The rest is the interesting part.
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