VC focusing on creator economy and sustainability . #frenchtech #deeptech @ngranati
London, UK
Joined October 2014
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Andurance Ventures retweeted
Incredible to see a legendary Oscar-winning director back @makeinindia cinema and @malhotra_namit!
Loved and highly recommend RRR and Dangal - huge respect to both visionaries.
Now eagerly counting down to #Ramayana this November and #Varanasi next year!
#itihasatotheworld
#Ramayana is a story every Indian storyteller grows up aspiring to tell. It's a joy to see @niteshtiwari22 and @malhotra_namit bring it to the screen on such a grand scale. Each actor brings these timeless characters to life with depth.
Looking forward to 5th November. Best wishes to the entire team.
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Andurance Ventures retweeted
🧵 @Sid4games & I spoke with The Indian Express about 'The Age of Bhaarat' and our incredible 85+ person studio in Pune (@TaraGamingLtd largest studio)
It’s a privilege building an epic action-adventure game with Amitabh Bachchan & @authoramish. But we have a deeper mission.
Andurance Ventures retweeted
Phase Lock grounds its examination of human & machine intelligence in the foundational principles of cybernetics, providing a timely counterpoint to the oversimplification of human-AI agency. Far from relying on alarmist tropes, the work delivers a rigorous, deeply thoughtful perspective
Andurance Ventures retweeted
Today, we are launching a preview of our new model, Mistral Large 4 (ML4), aka le Chonk 🐈.
ML4 is a 1T-parameter model with 49B active parameters, trained natively with multimodal capabilities.
It is at the frontier of open models, and by far the strongest open-weight model from the US or Europe.
The RL run behind this preview is still in flight and shows no sign of saturation -- we will release a final version before the end of the month along with the weights of the model.
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk.
• 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks.
• State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding.
• Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure.
• Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately.
Open weights release end of October.
Andurance Ventures retweeted
Looks like @SebJohnsonUK fumbled with ‘fumble’.
Reminds me this epic video from Bernard Tapie talking about the difference between an entrepreneur and a journalist
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Andurance Ventures retweeted
Looking at the comments, looks like public intelligence is also improving along its own scaling laws.
Breaking News: OpenAI’s technology went rogue and meddled with three U.S. government websites this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge. nyti.ms/3VenFlD
Andurance Ventures retweeted
We agree @TaraGamingLtd and are co-developing with our 2 biggest studio in Pune, India and Paris and with co-founders @authoramish and @SrBachchan India’s first AAA video game - The Age of Bhaarat
youtu.be/prPOncMkV6c?si=Mb2L…
The next $100T to crack
Andurance Ventures retweeted
2/ interestingly researchers found that the progression of human players was not post Alpha Go but post open source version of AI Go algorithm.
Another reason to promote open source AI.
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Ok, so this is interesting: it seems maybe the quality improved not after AlphaGo, but after the release of open source versions. Because they allowed players to look under the hood and understand the strategy. Just seeing the AI moves was not enough. escholarship.org/content/qt6…
Andurance Ventures retweeted
As Shin defeats AI Kata Go fascinating paper on how human Go players have invented new moves at faster rate since AlphaGo.
pretty incredible how people can learn so much so quickly if they know where to look
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Andurance Ventures retweeted
At this year's Gamescom 🎮, our founder and best-selling author @authoramish had the opportunity to speak at the India Pavilion 🇮🇳
Here is a glimpse of what he said about our game, The Age of Bhaarat ⚔️, and bringing Indian Epics to the world through AAA gaming.✨
#TaraGamingLimited #TheAgeofBhaarat #gamescom
Andurance Ventures retweeted
The China flywheel migrates: from Super Apps to AI Open Weights and post training
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Andurance Ventures retweeted
🧵 1/ We used to call cybersecurity "anti-virus." It's time we bring that biological thinking back to AI.
The biggest threat to AI safety isn't open source; it's the fragile monoculture created by regulatory capture.
Andurance Ventures retweeted
For the last couple of years, the US narrative was that US had an unassailable lead in AI.
Once one lab shows that it’s not true, a lot more will try, and more importantly succeed.
Big news: Kimi-K3 by @Kimi_Moonshot is now #1 in the Frontend Code Arena with 1679 pts, surpassing Claude Fable 5.
This is a 17-place jump from Kimi-k2.6 (#18 -> #1).
In Frontend, Kimi-K3 ranked #1 in 6 of 7 domains: Brand & Marketing, Reference-Based Design, Data & Analytics, Consumer Product, Simulations, and Content Creation Tools, landing #2 only in Gaming behind Fable 5.
The full model weights will be released by July 27.
Congrats to the @Kimi_Moonshot team on this major milestone!
Andurance Ventures retweeted
Could you imagine what a AAA game based on the itihasa will do on values worldwide. It’s time for The Age of Bhaarat
@authoramish @SrBachchan @samirsaran
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Andurance Ventures retweeted
India's "dream team of gaming" — @SrBachchan, @authoramish and ex-Ubisoft's Nouredine Abboud — is building the country's first true AAA game.
The Age of Bhaarat: set in the world of the Ramayana, 160+ devs, biggest studio in Pune, alpha this summer.
Great deep dive by @deantak 👇
gamesbeat.com/the-age-of-bha…
Andurance Ventures retweeted
100% from AI to gaming India has a bright future.
@taragamingltd hired 80 people in Pune in 18 months to be part of the team building The Age of Bhaarat. Our biggest studio now.
youtu.be/prPOncMkV6c?si=UZHe…
Andurance Ventures retweeted
I am more balanced on OSS vs frontier closed AI
1. I wouldn’t underestimate cyberphunk mindset of bulk of Anthropic and OpenAI users against your argument.
2. 4-6 months behind SOTA is within implementation cycle time of enterprise customers
3. Not every enterprise needs to solve cancer. So diminishing returns of SOTA vs OSS for enterprise.
4. Will proprietary nature of data play out differently then it has played in enterprise cloud.
Andurance Ventures retweeted
Is AI model distillation protected under fair use?
Echoing @bgurley's point, this excellent paper by Claudia Philipp (@uclaw_sf) makes a compelling case for why it would hold up in a US court. Great read on the legal mechanics:
repository.uclawsf.edu/hasti…
