AI Fund is a venture studio. We collaborate with entrepreneurs, venture funds, and corporate partners to create great companies that move humanity forward.
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Joined January 2018
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Today we're introducing PuppyDog, the fastest way to make a professional product video with AI.
Record your screen. PuppyDog writes the script, narrates it, and turns it into a beautifully animated video. All in 5 minutes.
Try it: puppydog.io
"Move fast and be responsible"
@AndrewYNg's updated Silicon Valley mantra: Use sandbox environments to prototype rapidly without shipping potentially harmful software.
Smart teams can maintain velocity AND safety - it's about engineering the right guardrails at each stage
"What are your favorite Claude Code tools?" Paxton from Anthropic's picks: → Memory/Claude.md files→ ! for Bash switching→ Sub-agents for discrete tasks
Power users are running 12 Claude agents in parallel on different codebases
"Multi-agent orchestration is the next frontier"
.@AndrewYNg on @NoPriorsPod: "What used to take 6 engineers 3 months, can now be built in a weekend."
The startup bottleneck has flipped:
✅ Engineering: Faster + cheaper
❌ Product management: Still relies on gut + customer empathy
Anthropic's Paxton Maeder-York drops a simple but powerful Claude Code tip:
Add "don't break anything and don't change anything else" to your prompts → "much, much better performance"
His advice: Treat Claude like a novice. Be explicit about what NOT to do.
. @AndrewYNg on @NoPriorsPod: "AI will transform healthcare" is true but not actionable.
"If someone says 'look at this specific part of healthcare operations' - that's concrete. We can efficiently test if customers want it."
Speed + specificity = AI startup success 🚀
Vector RAG works until customers ask: 'Which employees at partner companies can access sensitive data?' Can't trace the answer = lost deal.
Wed 9/17 11AM PT: @elichen + @alison_cossette on when to ditch vector search for graph retrieval:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
🚀 Buildathon: the ultimate speed building contest! 100+ contestants joined our inaugural event (w/ @DeepLearningAI ) in a high-energy rapid engineering competition. Teams built 6 apps from scratch in just hours. This is the future—AI removing barriers between ideas and reality.
We will be sharing insights and learnings from the event on our YouTube page. Follow us here: youtube.com/@AIFundVentureSt…
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This week in The Batch, Andrew Ng recaps our Buildathon event, where participants used AI-assisted agentic coding to produce apps in hours, showing how rapid engineering is transforming software development.
Plus:
🔒 China reconsiders U.S. AI processors
🎬 Alibaba releases Wan 2.2, an open-weights MoE video generator
⚡ OpenAI turns to Oracle for compute
📏 Researchers chart LLM memorization
Read The Batch: hubs.la/Q03DYvq_0
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While AI can’t solve climate change, it will be a key part of the solution.
I’m thrilled to see the work of Dylan Keil and team at @BearingAI on reducing carbon emissions in shipping. Ships guided by Bearing have sailed over 75 million miles — the equivalent of sailing 3000x around the planet. That’s over a million tons of carbon emissions saved, plus a lot of data to keep training the system!
Can generative AI help with climate change?
A new UN report highlights the urgent need to decarbonize shipping, estimating that the investment needed could top $2 trillion (unctad.org/rmt2023).
But Bearing AI is already addressing this today, using AI to optimize existing vessels' operations to reduce fuel and emissions by ~10%.
If Bearing’s software were deployed to the global fleet, it would be equivalent to swapping out 6,000+ vessels for carbon-neutral vessels overnight (the price of one new carbon-neutral vessel can easily be $50+m).
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Bola Adegbulu (@Bolafyn) sheds light on the vision and mission of @AI_Fund. The journey from pre-seed to formation stage in the AI world is intricate.
Don't miss his insights and the collaborative spirit of their venture approach at Meet Our Fund 5 next month!
Sign up here: meetourfund.com
Let's play a game! Can you spot @AndrewYNg's real voice vs the AI voice clones made by @speechlab_ai? #genai
Something fun with voice using generative AI! Here’re four audio clips of either my voice clone (3 clips) or me (1 clip) telling AI jokes. Can you tell which is the real me? Please reply below! Thanks @Speechlab_ai (an @AI_Fund portfolio company) for building the voice clone.
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We ask Google Brain Founder Andrew Ng what he sees as the most immediate danger of #AI
@jonfortt #AI #regulation #transparency
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Here's my short interview with Time100 AI. It talks about how, a decade ago, I was thinking about scaling up neural networks as a small step toward AGI!
Even though AGI is still far away, I'm excited every day to continue the AI journey with my teams @AI_Fund, @DeepLearningAI_ and @LandingAI and with all of you!
time.com/collection/time100-… – at Palo Alto, CA
Congratulations to the AI luminaries honored on @TIME's #TIME100AI List, including 2 from the AI Fund ecosystem: Andrew Ng (Managing General Partner, AI Fund) and Alison Darcy (Founder & President of @HiWoebot)!
time.com/collection/time100-…
I'm happy to be on the Time AI 100 list of influential people in AI, and thrilled that 8 others from my Stanford group or other teams I led are also named!
Congratulations to my former advisees and team members:
- Sam Altman @sama (as undergrad, interned with me on RL research at Stanford)
- Dario Amodei @Dario_Amodei (worked with me on DeepSpeech and scaling laws at Baidu)
- Alison Darcy @alisonmdarcy (AI+mental health at Stanford)
- Geoff Hinton @geoffreyhinton (member of my team at Google Brain)
- Lila Ibrahim @lilaibrahim (once my COO at Coursera)
- Neal Khosla @nealkhosla (undergrad advisee at Stanford)
- Richard Socher @RichardSocher (PhD advisee with Chris Manning)
- Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut (postdoc at Stanford)
It's thrilling to see the ongoing impact of everyone's work! ❤️
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Thank you NASDAQ Tradetalks for having me to talk about @AI_Fund. AI is a general purpose technology that's made new business use cases possible in many sectors: maritime shipping, K12 education, real estate, .... AI fund is building one company a month with great entrepreneurs to pursue these exciting opportunities!
AI Fund Managing General Partner @AndrewYNg joins @JillMalandrino on @Nasdaq #TradeTalks from @SALTConference @iConnections_io to discuss the biggest opportunities in the #AI startups landscape. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzXrjk…
Congratulations to Sixuan Li and the VIAVIA team! on closing an $8M seed round!
They are building a video and live-streaming fashion e-commerce platform and end-to-end supply chain solution for fashion brands.
🎉Excited to share news of our $8M seed funding led by @NEA + @BasisSet with participation by Exor Seeds, @AndrewYNg's @AI_Fund & @BackendCapital.
Check out our blog to learn more about today's news, and stay tuned for more exciting updates to come!
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There are many potential pitfalls in building AI startups.
Here are 4 lessons that we’ve learned about commercializing promising AI/ML tech into successful companies: aifund.ai/insights-4-lessons…
Way to go @PodcastleA adding video to their podcast platform!
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