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Not quite what Deedy had in mind, but Bespoke is a AI lab, and is buying data from startups.
If you have something interesting (data, code etc.) to sell, please fill the form below!
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
Friends, customers, and partners — Today, I am excited to share that @ArynInc has been acquired by @glean !
We started Aryn at the cusp of the AI boom, before the launch of ChatGPT. It was a mad time (and still is). While everyone was (and still is) trying to solve AGI, we wrote a simpler mantra on the back of our shirts: “Answer questions from all of your data.” We worked to use AI to help people in enterprises with their unstructured data.
From the first time I met Arvind Jain (Glean’s CEO), it was clear that Glean’s mission and Aryn’s mission were well aligned. Their vision is big — to enable humans to do extraordinary work — and we like to work on things big. He was humble and decisive. We felt that together we could accelerate and create a way for our combined tech to have the biggest impact. So, why wait?
The Aryn ride has been mad fun. I cannot lie; it was also hard, but the people made it all worthwhile. We are grateful for our customers, including Novacore and @DataRobot, who were a guiding light and without whom we’d be floating in a dark abyss. We are grateful for our investors, Factory (Chris Re, Samuel Jackson, Jon Feiber), @8vc (Bhaskar Ghosh, Kevin Chen, Venkatesh Seetharam, Asanka Jayasuriya, and Karen White), Amarjit Gill, and Lip-Bu Tan who saw something in us before the AI boom and still do. We are grateful for all the partners, advisors, employees, friends, and family whose cumulative blood, sweat, and tears got us here.
As we worked to make the future, we gelled into an unforgettable family. We were many things: inspired, nerds, creators, principled, trustworthy, charitable, and goofy.
We are not bowing out; on the contrary, we are on a bigger pitch shooting at a bigger goal. And while we retire the name and logo, we still carry the message on the back of our shirts.
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
I invited my long time friend @BGMusings to host a special episode on @TheSSEPodcast.
He hosts a deep conversation with his long time colleague @kapilsurlaker on AI and enterprise infrastructure.
Full episode: buff.ly/LdnmbNg
#AIapplications #artificialintelligence
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Replying to @TheSSEPodcast @kapilsurlaker
In our newest episode, Kapil and @BGMusings go deep on AI, infrastructure, and responsibility.
Listen here: buff.ly/LdnmbNg
@JeffDean @JayKreps @shirshanka @arudis @DataHubCloud @confluentinc @startreedata @KishoreBytes @SureVentures @GopiRangan
#artificialintelligence
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
Can startups buy scale?
My friend Bhaskar Ghosh explains what's happens when SaaS becomes Service as a Software and how in the AI led world startups can buy scale.
@BGMusings
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Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), DataHub’s MCP Server gives AI agents real-time access to your rich metadata so they can:
✅ Search for trusted datasets
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#DataHub #MCP #ModelContextProtocol #Data #DataOps #AI #DataEngineering
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
Thank @natolambert for the shout out about the work we did at @bespokelabsai.
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We are launching a reasoning dataset competition with @huggingface and @togethercompute.
With OpenThinker, we democratized access to reasoning models, but more importantly with the Open Thoughts dataset, we allowed 200+ models to be created (that are public!).
Most of us have been focused on a few specific domains and it's time to unlock creativity everywhere.
So that's why we are creating this competition with good friends at HF and Together.
Let's go!!
Announcing Reasoning Datasets Competition📢in collaboration with @huggingface and @togethercompute
Since the launch of DeepSeek-R1 this January, we’ve seen an explosion of reasoning-focused datasets: OpenThoughts-114k, OpenCodeReasoning, codeforces-cot, and more. OpenThoughts-114k alone has powered training for 230+ models.
Most datasets focus on math, coding, or science, domains where answers are clear-cut and verifiable. But reasoning is starting to push into messier, more human areas: Finance, Medicine and even multi-domain reasoning.
The next big leap in LLMs could come from better datasets that mirror real-world ambiguity, complexity, and nuance.🌐
To help push the frontier, we’re launching a Reasoning Dataset Competition. Signup!
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
In need of general debugging help? Our troubleshoot DataHub Slack channel is the place to go! Sign up for expert help: pages.acryl.io/slack
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GenAI tools are revolutionizing coding, but hard data on their impacts is scarce. We’ve partnered w/ @software_hq & @jedidiahyueh for the 1st empirical study of how specific tools raise dev team productivity. Learn more from 8VC Partner and CTO Asanka Jayasuriya (and sign up!)
Top talent is the key driver behind our best companies.
@omrvp & @TeziHQ are revolutionizing how we find it w/ Max, an AI recruiter that saved customers 10000+ hours in just months. Max sources candidates, sends emails and schedules interviews 24/7; an awesome AI colleague!
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
Every job has tedious and fun parts. What if you could offload all the tedious parts to someone and only keep the fun parts? If you are a recruiter or hiring manager, you can now do just that. Announcing general availability of @TeziHQ's AI recruiting agent Max!
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Reliable data powers better decisions—learn how to ensure data quality at scale!
Join Jonny Dixon for "Get Data Quality You Can Trust" and see how DataHub Cloud makes data health & compliance effortless.
🗓️ March 20 | 9 AM PT
👉 Register: lu.ma/5i0njefk
#DataQuality #DataHub
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We're incredibly excited to be launching the 8VC Llama Stack Challenge today for university students in the US!!
The first challenge is about building desktop, field, and edge AI applications using Meta's open source Llama models: 3/7 - 4/19!
Join now at llamastackchallenge.com
Our friends @Meta are taking part in the 8VC Llama Stack Innovation Challenge!
First challenge: 3/7-4/19. Use Llama Stack to build desktop, field, and edge AI applications that run locally for privacy and performance. Join now:
llamastackchallenge.com/
(BG) Bhaskar Ghosh @ SFBA retweeted
Link to the blog post: bespokelabs.ai/blog/bespoke-…
This has links to the model, code, and most importantly the open reasoning dataset!
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Introducing Bespoke-Stratos-32B, our reasoning model distilled from DeepSeek-R1 using Berkeley NovaSky’s Sky-T1 recipe.
The model outperforms Sky-T1 and o1-preview in reasoning (Math and Code) benchmarks and almost reaches the performance of DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B while being trained on 47x fewer examples!
Crucially, we open-source the dataset (DeepSeek open-sourced the model, not the data). Let's work together on this exciting direction of reasoning distillation!
🧵More info and link to the blog below!
My amazing colleague @kevinniechen is hosting an AI design event on Nov 18 at SF offices of 8VC; should be a monster one! Please ask Kevin on how to join or nominate people. @8vc @vvkgopalan
We're excited to be hosting a product design event on "Designing and Engineering for AI" at the @8VC Pier 5 office on Nov 19 at 6:30pm!
Featuring 5 minute lightning demos from designers at Ramp, Wispr, Julius and more
RSVP link below
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ollama run bespoke-minicheck
.@bespokelabsai released Bespoke-Minicheck, a 7B fact-checking model is now available in Ollama! It answers with Yes / No and you can use it to fact check claims on your own documents.
How to use the model with examples:
ollama.com/blog/reduce-hallu…


























