Introducing Gradient Ventures
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Introducing Gradient Ventures
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#2IMO this has significant appeal. Lots of firms can provide capital, but few can provide relevant expertise let alone training.
They seem to be trying to cover all bases with the Google Brain Residency the Machine Learning Ninja program, standard VC funding, and now this. If you have talent in ML/AI there is a way Google can help you succeed in the style of your choice. Want to be a founder? Excellent! Want to be a founder but also kinda part of Google? Sure! Are you super talented and experienced in other disciplines and want to explore AI and maybe contribute a 2-5% improvement to one of our model's performance? Yes! We have that!
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#3Google (and other large tech companies that have invested in AI internally) are probably the most valuable investors, because they have access, and can purchase, the largest and best data sets available. It's hard for AI start-ups to do anything without access to the right data sets, and large companies can and have better access to that data.
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#4IMO this has significant appeal. Lots of firms can provide capital, but few can provide relevant expertise let alone training. They seem to be trying to cover all bases with the Google Brain Residency the Machine Learning Ninja program, standard VC funding, and now this. If you have talent in ML/AI there is a way Google can help you succeed in the style of your choice. Want to be a founder? Excellent! Want to be a fo…
Actually a 2-5% improvement over state-of-the-art is a research contribution in its own right.
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#5IMO this has significant appeal. Lots of firms can provide capital, but few can provide relevant expertise let alone training. They seem to be trying to cover all bases with the Google Brain Residency the Machine Learning Ninja program, standard VC funding, and now this. If you have talent in ML/AI there is a way Google can help you succeed in the style of your choice. Want to be a founder? Excellent! Want to be a fo…
Actually a 2-5% improvement over state-of-the-art is a research contribution in its own right.
In some problems this is incredible.
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#6I thought this was odd, from the about page
> We can help you find and incorporate data sets into your first models. From cleaning data to extracting the most important features, our team can help you get your production models to market.
While realizing the hardest part of a startup is everything but the tech, it seems odd they're telling AI companies they'll help with the hardest parts of the technical side, the ones that need to be done right well before anyone can tell if your tech has any merit.
I'd hate to be a first-pass reviewer for all the pitches they're gonna get. "I have this amazing idea, I just need someone else to build the AI behind it!"
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#7I thought this was odd, from the about page > We can help you find and incorporate data sets into your first models. From cleaning data to extracting the most important features, our team can help you get your production models to market. While realizing the hardest part of a startup is everything but the tech, it seems odd they're telling AI companies they'll help with the hardest parts of the technical side, the on…
Honestly, if the answer to that is that they invest in you and you use their money to buy google cloud ml services, and you go out and find customers, that doesn't sound bad.
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#8https://cogniac.co/ The demo over here seems to be fabricated. Even if you provide wrong labels interactively, the performance of the classifier keeps increasing ...
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Re: Introducing Gradient Ventures
#9I thought this was odd, from the about page > We can help you find and incorporate data sets into your first models. From cleaning data to extracting the most important features, our team can help you get your production models to market. While realizing the hardest part of a startup is everything but the tech, it seems odd they're telling AI companies they'll help with the hardest parts of the technical side, the on…
Honestly, if the answer to that is that they invest in you and you use their money to buy google cloud ml services, and you go out and find customers, that doesn't sound bad.
I guess a big question here is, what does "AI company" mean to Gradient Ventures?
If it's "yet another company spewing buzzwords all over", ML-as-a-service might work, but I'm hoping it's more "adapting cutting edge AI research to do things people will pay for", which requires a hell of a lot more engineering and can't be done by just shoving their data into someone else's black box.
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#10I thought this was odd, from the about page > We can help you find and incorporate data sets into your first models. From cleaning data to extracting the most important features, our team can help you get your production models to market. While realizing the hardest part of a startup is everything but the tech, it seems odd they're telling AI companies they'll help with the hardest parts of the technical side, the on…
Google is trying to find users for their cloud. A hot startup using GCP is good PR.