We have some big news to share: Marimo is joining CoreWeave! We’re doubling down on open-source and scaling molab with serious compute. Our mission remains the same: to build the world’s best open-source programming environment for working with data. To our community: we wouldn’t be here without your enthusiasm, feedback, and contributions. We’re so grateful — and so excited to keep building with you. marimo is, and always will be, free, open-source, and permissively licensed. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/g6cfFRJa
AIX Ventures
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AIX Ventures is an AI-focused venture firm investing in Pre/Seed startups for Fund I.
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Congrats to Fan-Yun Sun, Sharon Lee, & the entire Moonlake AI team!
Christopher Manning, myself, and the entire AIX Ventures team is thrilled to be co-leading the $28M Seed round of Moonlake AI, founded by Fan-Yun Sun & Sharon Lee. Moonlake is an applied AI research lab that lets anyone code interactive worlds in minutes. It's been great working with Sun and Sharon, as well as the entire Moonlake team, to see them build out their vision for Vibe coding interactive worlds. There's so much passion on this team. The culture is infectious! Shout out to Chris Manning, my AIX Ventures Deal Partner for Moonlake. Chris is a legend, but also a very humble person. Working closely with him in this journey to support the Moonlake team is a great honor. Many thanks to our co-investors in Threshold Ventures (Mo Islam) and NVIDIA (Mohamed (Sid) Siddeek, Elvin Hao), Steve Chen, Jeff Dean, Ian Goodfellow, Naval Ravikant, Mercedes Bent, & Jared Leto. The Moonlake team is growing fast! Reach out directly or DM me for more info. https://lnkd.in/gMsE3J-G
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Check out the AIX Ventures HQ fireside chat with Tanay Kothari, Christopher Manning, & Shaun Johnson
Christopher Manning and I sat down with Tanay Kothari at the AIX Ventures HQ to discuss how the Wispr Flow team cracked the voice transcription code, pivoting from HW to SW, and Tanay's long infatuation with building the next Jarvis. Link in comments
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This feels like an insane moment. Reid Hoffman just named our startup as the future of human-computer interaction. The founder of LinkedIn just told the world he's "voicepilled" and we're one of the reasons why. I've been building voice products since I was 11. Had 2.5 million users before I could legally sign contracts. But this moment? This is different. Reid wrote: "If you use products like Wispr Flow or ChatGPT Voice, you know what I mean... once you start seriously using your voice to interact with technology, you unlock a new way to amplify your ability." He's right. But here's what even Reid doesn't know: We almost killed the product 3 times. Voice is HARD. Everyone thinks the problem is accuracy. It's not. It's trust. When Reid says "voice is iterative by default - you stumble, you rephrase, you interrupt yourself" - that's exactly what we had to solve. Other tools transcribe your stumbles. We translate them into what you meant. When most LLMs hallucinate 2% of the time, we dropped ours to be 1 in a million. Rebuilt our entire pipeline from scratch. Twice. Why? Because professionals won't use voice if they have to edit every message. Reid called this moment being "voicepilled" - that clarity when you realize voice changes everything. For me, that moment came at 11 watching Iron Man. Tony Stark talking to Jarvis. 14 years later, we're actually building it. Thanks for believing in the vision, Reid. The future is voice-first.
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🚨 HOT OFF THE PRESS 🚨 we just released our Q2 2025 State of the Bots report — analyzing AI bot and agent activity across the TollBit publisher network which include some of the world's biggest publishers. This report reveals some shocking trends: - New AI visitors look human: The latest AI browsers and devtools — like Perplexity Comet, Firecrawl, and Browserless — appear as Chrome in site logs, solve CAPTCHAs, and mimic human behavior. This is going to cause problems for advertising integrity. - RAG access reduces broken links: We analyze HTTP 404 status codes to find which AI platforms send visitors to the most broken or hallucinated links. - AI bot activity surpasses Bingbot: For the first time, aggregate AI bot traffic across publisher sites has overtaken crawls from the world’s #2 search engine. - Human visitors are falling, AI rising: From Q1 to Q2, human visits declined 9.4% across sites on TollBit. Meanwhile, AI visitors grew sharply — rising from 1 in 200 to 1 in 50 total site visits. - And many more insights across 75 pages! 👉 Download the full report here: https://lnkd.in/e8UYNeca
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Today AIX Ventures is leading the $10M seed round for Therna Biosciences to develop generative AI models for designing programmable RNA medicines. Founded by the legendary Nazli Azimi and Hani Goodarzi, Therna's lab-in-the-loop approach and proprietary functional RNA models give the company a clear edge to engineer better RNA medicines, faster. Read more in Katherine Davis article for Axios: https://lnkd.in/ePMUrgvH
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This Wednesday, Aug 20th, we will host Tanay Kothari, Christopher Manning, and Shaun Johnson in our SF office for a fireside chat. Please join in our office (limited capacity) or by Zoom. https://lu.ma/88r1sgs5
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Congrats to Nima, Johnny, & the entire Tahoe Therapeutics team!
🚀 Big congrats to Nima Alidoust and Johnny Yu at Tahoe Therapeutics on raising a $30M Series A to advance their efforts in building the world's largest database of cell interactions. Always a pleasure to speak with the incredible Alex Knapp at Forbes about why AIX Ventures has backed the company since its seed round. 🧬 Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/g8fybjGj
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Co-Founder of Y Carrot 🥕 Fellow at Lightning A.I. ⚡️ SuperDataScience Host 🎙️
I love Jupyter Notebooks... but they have a lot of painful "features". Today's guest Akshay Agrawal has built marimo, which resolves these issues and adds in lots of clever new innovations. More on Akshay: • Co-founder and CEO of marimo. • Carried out a PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University. • Previously held software engineering roles at Google and Netflix. Today's episode will appeal most to hands-on practitioners. In it, we cover: • Why 96% of Jupyter notebooks fail to reproduce their original results. • How reactive notebooks can transform a simple slider adjustment into automatic recalculation across your entire analysis — like Excel for data science. • How you can now intuitively select data points with your mouse in a scatter plot and instantly get them back as a Python dataframe for analysis. • How one marimo notebook can simultaneously be an executable script, an importable Python module, and even a fully functional click-and-point UI! Thanks to Shaun Johnson for introducing me to Akshay! And great thanks to NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and Cisco for supporting today's episode of the "Super Data Science Podcast with Jon Krohn", enabling the show to be freely available on all major podcasting platforms as well as YouTube. This is Episode #911! See below for quick access ⬇️ #superdatascience #python #datascience #machinelearning #ai #jupyter
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150 years ago, more than 90% of workers spent their days in the fields. No one could have pictured the economy we enjoy today. Tractors freed society from hours of back-breaking work. The same transformation is underway again, but for the mind instead of the muscle. The future of knowledge work will be defined by how well each of us thinks, abstracts, and delegates. How many ideas and agency to execute you have.