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Venture Capital fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and deep tech. Toronto, San Francisco, London and New York.

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Today we announced the first close of the Radical Breakouts Fund. The multi-billion dollar fund will invest in global AI scale-ups on a path to becoming the next trillion-dollar businesses. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Radical Ventures Starts Canada’s Biggest VC Fund With $1 Billion

Toronto-headquartered Radical Ventures unveiled a new late-stage growth fund with more than $1 billion of capital after an initial close, with much of it committed by Canada’s biggest financial...

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We’re halfway through this year’s AI Founders Masterclass, where hundreds of AI researchers and early-stage founders get unique access to candid conversations and live AMAs with people who’ve built some of the industry's defining companies. Here are some highlights:
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Big thanks to our amazing speakers, and to everyone who has tuned in. We’ll be sharing excerpts from these conversations on Radical Talks in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
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Learn more about the program and sign up to be informed about next year's speaker lineup: radical.vc/masterclass/
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Every major decision rests on a forecast. Radical’s Rich Kotite and Aaron Rosenberg join portfolio company @_Mantic_AI co-founders @tshevl and @itsmebenday on Radical Talks to discuss how their AI system outscores even professional forecasters: radical.vc/articles/the-era-…

The Era of Superhuman Forecasting Is Here - Radical Ventures

Every major decision rests on a forecast, and Radical Ventures portfolio company Mantic is building AI that turns those forecasts into something investors

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Radical Ventures portfolio company @PrimeIntellect has acquired Moondream, a startup that builds small, open-weight vision models. Prime Intellect’s view is that a model’s value depends on how it is served, because inference determines both speed and cost.
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In Prime Intellect’s internal testing, Moondream’s latest model reached 80% of a leading frontier model’s accuracy at locating objects in images, at roughly 1/1,000th of the cost.
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Neocloud Prime Intellect Acquires Startup To Speed Up Inference

Neoclouds and so-called inference providers that help app developers run open source models are trying to differentiate themselves in a very crowded market.For instance, one such neocloud, Prime...

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They also cover why forecasting gets better and cheaper as more people ask the same questions, and how hedge funds and Fortune 500 companies are using Mantic’s forecasts to inform their biggest decisions. Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5BA…

The Era of Superhuman Forecasting

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Radical Partners Rich Kotite and Aaron Rosenberg sat down with Mantic co-founders @tshevl and @itsmebenday to discuss how they got there, and how Mantic turns fuzzy, qualitative questions into concrete numbers people can act on.
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Now live on Radical Talks: As recently as last year, experts suggested AI surpassing the best human forecasters could still be a decade away. This summer, @_Mantic_AI outscored all 676 human forecasters in the Metaculus Cup, the first time AI has topped the competition.
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The episode goes live tomorrow. Subscribe wherever you get your podcast.
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3️⃣ Customers use Mantic to replace static, qualitative assessments with quantitative, calibrated forecasts that continuously update as the world changes
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Toby and Ben shared some key insights, including: 1️⃣ Forecasting experiments that take human researchers a year can now run in a morning 2️⃣ Like a good team, a group of AI models forecasts better when its members think differently, even if some are less accurate on their own
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