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Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

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Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.

It's free for students, I use it for both my day job and my night classes. It has been pretty great with Python, Java and JS.

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

#52
post #25

Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.

Yep, it's been a game changer and I happily spent the money.

As someone who has strong programming intention, but is not always able to easily remember syntax, or visualize a solution, it's been a force multiplier.

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

#53
post #25

Is anyone actually using co-pilot? They claim “millions of users” but I seriously doubt millions of programmers opted into paying $10 per month for it. A lot of these stats seem highly suspect.

I use it and pay for it, and most of the coders I work with do also.

It's been pretty invaluable for vector math and reasoning in Unity.

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

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Hey folks, this is Evan from AI Grant! We're excited to support founders building new AI products. AI Grant is investing $250k on an uncapped, no-discount, MFN SAFE, as well as providing more than $300k in cloud credits. AI Grant used to do small grants in lots of AI research projects. Now, we think there's plenty of research, and what's needed is products: so we're doing bigger investments in founders building produ…

How does the "uncapped, no-discount, MFN SAFE" work? What does that mean in terms of the percentage of equity you'd take? I'm self-funding fakeyou.com from a previous exit. My AI/ML startup is called "Storyteller" and my team is about to launch real time voice conversion (you -> Trump, Adele, etc.), music generation (instruments + vocals), and real time motion capture (for film and animation, essentially super high q…

Apologies if this comes off as harsh, but I'd recommend doing your own research on fundraising and common terms rather than trusting potential investors to educate you.

To address your question, an "uncapped, no-discount, MFN SAFE" roughly amounts to getting the same terms that will be given to your next investors: https://www.dentonsventurebeyond.com/resource-center/safes/

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

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post #21

I participated in another Daniel Gross program, Pioneer, and it was _excellent_. I highly recommend it or this for folks that may be more 'outside the band' when it comes to raising money or getting a startup from 0 to 1. I would note that if you're trying to bootstrap this is probably not the program for you. These guys are incredibly connected in venture capital and this program ought to be a great way to leverage…

Direct link to Dan’s site for Pioneer:

https://pioneer.app/

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

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post #50
post #34

Hey folks, this is Evan from AI Grant! We're excited to support founders building new AI products. AI Grant is investing $250k on an uncapped, no-discount, MFN SAFE, as well as providing more than $300k in cloud credits. AI Grant used to do small grants in lots of AI research projects. Now, we think there's plenty of research, and what's needed is products: so we're doing bigger investments in founders building produ…

How does the "uncapped, no-discount, MFN SAFE" work? What does that mean in terms of the percentage of equity you'd take? I'm self-funding fakeyou.com from a previous exit. My AI/ML startup is called "Storyteller" and my team is about to launch real time voice conversion (you -> Trump, Adele, etc.), music generation (instruments + vocals), and real time motion capture (for film and animation, essentially super high q…

Very high level explanation of a SAFE is that it converts on the valuation of your next funding round. Uncapped means that if you raise at a $200m valuation in one year, the SAFE will convert to equity at 250k/200m or 0.125% of the company.

More details here https://capbase.com/how-do-safes-work/.

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

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Sorry if this is obvious, but it's $250k for what percentage?

I have something that might be the type of startup (integrating AI into algonfts.art) except it's not a very popular niche and probably wouldn't make back the $250K. Although that reality doesn't seem to stop most people.

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

#59
I love this, there are so many interesting questions and challenges in the area of how humans will interact with AI. To me the correct model is to think of intelligence as a resource like compute as opposed to a personified computer, which opens up the opportunity for so many more applications.

An example is the recent text-inversion paper where they found a way to extract the embedding of a visual concept from several images. Or how Midjourney is able to somehow integrate their model with StableDiffusion to get the realism and control of SD but the aesthetics of Midjourney.

Basically, it seems like deep learning networks are a lot more composable and controllable than I would have expected, while still demonstrating really interesting features. There could be entirely novel neural net architectures with no analogue in the human brain that still do really interesting and useful things. It’s exciting to see what people are coming up with!

Re: $250k for your AI-first product startup

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I'm working on building a search engine specifically to help with prompt engineering https://pagebrain.ai/promptsearch/ Is this useful enough to be a startup?

Where are you scraping data from?

Appears super similar to Lexica.art, but less data; for example, appears you’re missing even the limited about of parameters listed by Lexica, which still are incomplete.

https://lexica.art/

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