AI Startups Boom Hauv San Francisco Amid $ 100 billion Google yuam kev

Nyob rau hauv pem hauv ntej ntawm ntau txhiab leej, ntawm private venture capital noj hmo nyob rau hauv lub feem ntau lavish venues, tshaj li xws li kev ua si ntawm ping pong, San Francisco's AI startup scene tau tawg.

Nrog kaum tawm txhiab tus neeg raug tso tawm software engineers nrog lub sij hawm rau tinker, ci ntsa iab lub tsev tsis muaj beckoning lawv pib ib yam dab tsi tshiab, thiab ntau txhiab daus las nyob rau hauv cov nyiaj ntsuab nyob rau hauv qhov kev xav tau ntawm kev nqis peev, nws tsis xav tsis thoob tias tsuas yog lub lis piam tom qab tus kab mob AI tus khub, ChatGPT, ua rau nws lub puab tsaig poob qis, ib lub nroog ntse tshaj plaws hauv ntiaj teb yuav xaiv AI generative ua tus tsav tsheb ntawm nws qhov kev lag luam tom ntej.

Cov dej nyab rau cov neeg tsim kho tshiab tau raug cuam tshuam dav dav, txhawb nqa los ntawm kev tso tawm botched ntawm Google's Bard thiab Microsoft's Sydney tshawb nrhiav bots uas Google poob $ 100 nphom hauv kev lag luam tus nqi tom qab tweeting qhov tsis zoo, thiab New York Times tus kws sau xov xwm Kevin Roose tau tshaj tawm Microsoft's AI mus tsis ncaj ncees lawm. nrog emojis, flirting thiab hem nws, thiab qhia nws tias nws xav tau txoj sia.

Nov yog qhov tweet uas raug nqi Google $ 100 billion.

Hauv nws lub sijhawm, cov neeg ua haujlwm hackathons qhov nyiam ntawm Apple's AI Summit tsis ntev los no tau tshwm sim, thiab cov tsim muaj Cov dej nyab accelerator zoo li Y Combinator thiab venture peev tuam txhab xws li Position Ventures nrog generative AI pitches - tag nrho kom tau ib daim ntawm lub ncuav qab zib.

"Lub quarter no peb tau pom ntau lub tuam txhab ChatGPT dua li kuv tau pom los ntawm tag nrho lub neej ntawm peb cov peev nyiaj," said Position Ventures general partner Jenny He uas tau tsim lub tuam txhab hauv 2021 nrog kev txhawb nqa los ntawm Tiger Global thiab Bain Capital Ventures. Nws tau sau cov tshev rau cov tuam txhab thaum ntxov txij li $ 100,000 txog $ 250,000.

Lub sijhawm tseem ceeb

"Peb nyob hauv ib lub sijhawm uas peb pom qhov kev hloov pauv mus rau tom ntej, uas yog qhov tob," Bessemer Venture Partners 'Sameer Dholakia hais rau chav ntim ntawm 1,000 tus tsim tawm ntawm GenAI lub rooj sib tham hauv San Francisco thaum Lub Ob Hlis 14. "Nws yuav hloov pauv. txoj kev uas peb kev lag luam software ua haujlwm, tab sis qhov tseem ceeb tshaj, nws yuav hloov lub neej ntawm ntau lab tus tib neeg uas nyob hauv ntiaj teb no, "nws hais.

Hais txog cov neeg coob coob, Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont ze li kua muag. "Rau kuv, pom ntau tus neeg tuaj sib sau ua ke hauv San Francisco yog qhov zoo heev." Lub nroog tau tawm tsam kom rov zoo los ntawm kev sib kis nrog ntau dua li ib nrab ntawm nws cov neeg ua haujlwm tsis rov qab los rau hauv plawv nroog. Tab sis nrog pristine nyob ntsiag to txoj kev los muaj cib fim. "Lub sijhawm zoo siab npaum li cas los ua tus tsim thiab ua lag luam," nws hais tias.

Nyob rau theem yog ob peb qhov kev pib kub tshaj plaws hauv qhov chaw:

• OpenAI, tsim cov cuab yeej AI generative suav nrog ChatGPT thiab DALL-E, AI art generator. YC pib rov qab los ntawm Microsoft thiab Khosla Ventures
• Stability AI, tus tsim ntawm Stability Diffusion, qhib cov ntawv nyeem-rau-cov duab qauv uas portrait app Lensa yog raws li. Rov qab los ntawm Coatue thiab Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Jasper, kev lag luam AI copywriter, YC (W18) pib rov qab los ntawm Bessemer thiab Coatue thiab tsim tawm ntawm GenAI lub rooj sib tham
• anthropic, Claude chatbot tsim, txhawb nqa los ntawm Google, Eric Schmidt thiab FTX tus tsim Sam Bankman Fried
• Rov qab, lub coding platform, YC (W18) pib rov qab los ntawm Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, SV Angel thiab Bloomberg Beta
• Co: ntawm no, kev ua cov lus zoo thiab tus qauv tsim qauv loj, YC (S20) pib rov qab los ntawm Tiger Global thiab AI icons Geoffrey Hinton thiab Fei-Fei Li
• Cerebras, AI chipmaker, txhawb nqa los ntawm Benchmark, Sequoia, SV Angel, Coatue thiab Abu Dhabi Growth Fund

Tsis nyob rau theem Koj.com, lub tshuab tshawb nrhiav nrog AI tham, tsim los ntawm Salesforce tus qub Tus Kws Tshawb Fawb Richard Socher thiab txhawb nqa los ntawm Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Radical Ventures, Hnub Ib Ventures thiab Breyer Capital.

Hauv kev xam phaj hauv xov tooj, kuv nug Socher txog qhov twg AI generative yog nyob rau ntawm cov txuj ci kev txawj ntse dav dav thiab kev txhawj xeeb ntawm "Black Box Effect" uas AI tsim cov qauv tsim qauv uas tsim cov qauv uas tib neeg tsis tuaj yeem nkag siab lossis tswj tau lawm. - Tom qab tag nrho, ChatGPT yog qhov zoo ntawm kev coding, vim li cas ho tsis tuaj yeem tshwm sim, Amazon software engineer Jesus Munoz nug kuv ntawm lub rooj sab laj.

Socher teb hais tias, "Nws yog qhov tsis lees paub tias peb tab tom taug kev, tab sis nws yog txoj kev cua daj cua dub thiab nws tsis paub meej tias peb tau txais qhov ntawd ntxiv npaum li cas. Txhawm rau nkag mus rau AGI, peb yuav tsum muaj kev nkag siab ntau ntxiv ntawm lub ntiaj teb, "nws hais. "Yog tias koj piav qhia txog qhov kev nce qib ntawm AGI kev nce qib nws yuav zoo li qhov tsis zoo, txawm hais tias nws zoo siab heev thiab ib kauj ruam loj rau ntawm AI dav dav."

Thaum ChatGPT tsis txuas nrog Is Taws Nem thiab Bing kev sib tham tshawb nrhiav tseem tsis tau muaj rau ntau dua ib lab tus neeg nyob rau hauv daim ntawv teev npe tos, leej twg tuaj yeem tham nrog Koj.comnrhiav tam sim no. Thaum kuv hu xov tooj nrog Socher thaum 7 teev tsaus ntuj ntawm Valentine's, ib hmo uas cov chaw kub tshaj plaws tau muag tawm, Kuv thov kom nws nrhiav kuv noj hmo hauv San Francisco thiab nws pom qhov chaw 8 teev tsaus ntuj uas tau qhib ntawm lub club noj hmo zoo kawg Bix. Kuv zoo siab heev. Nws tau coj kuv teev mus nrhiav qhov chaw hnub ua ntej. Raws li txoj hmoo yuav muaj nws, Kuv tau mob ntawm Anchovy Bar zaum ntawm ib sab ntawm Socher tus qub npoj yaig los ntawm Salesforce.

Tib neeg tsuas muaj kev lom zem xwb

Lub nroog tab tom pib xav tias zoo li lub caij ntuj no crypto xyoo 2018 thaum cov txuj ci tau nchuav rau hauv kev tsim lub neej yav tom ntej thiab muaj cov vaj huam sib luag thiab cov tog neeg tsis nres.

"Huag qhov tshwm sim tam sim no," tus tsim software hais rau kuv dhau ntawm kev ua si ntawm ping pong. "Yog lawm, tag nrho pawg ntawm AI hacker tsev tau tshwm sim hauv Hayes Valley," nws hais.

Lub cheeb tsam hu ua "Cerebral Valley" tau tweeted txog los ntawm cov tsim thiab cov tub ua lag luam zoo li Bloomberg Beta's Amber Yang, thiab San Francisco Standard tau ua ib qho zaj dab neeg zoo rau nws nyob rau lub Ib Hlis Ntuj.

Ntawm ib tog ntawm Modernist social club lub lim tiam dhau los, kuv tau qhia tawm kuv qhov kev paub GenAI thaum ib tus neeg nug tias leej twg paub dab tsi ChatGPT tau kawm. "Yog,"Kuv hais. Cov neeg coob coob ntawm cov tsim thev naus laus zis tau nce siab kom hnov ​​​​ntau dua. "Ib qho yog Common Crawl uas nkag mus rau tag nrho lub vev xaib. Ob yog cov ntawv web txuas nrog Reddit. Peb yog Wikipedia. Thiab ob qhov kawg cov ntaub ntawv teev yog qee yam ntawm BookCorpus hu ua Books1 thiab Books2, raws li ib tug TikTok tsim los ntawm Atlantic's Nicholas Thompson. "

Muaj txawm tias a standup startup comedy hmo ntuj tsom rau generative AI los txog rau lub Peb Hlis 2 co-tsim los ntawm Olympian comedian Elizabeth Swaney. Kuv tau ua si nws hauv ping pong lub lim tiam dhau los thiab nws tau hais tias cov haujlwm hauv kev ua haujlwm txhawb nqa nws kom muaj cov neeg ua lag luam hauv qhov chaw. Ntawm qhov kev tshwm sim, plaub tus tsim yuav muaj tsib feeb los teeb tsa pawg neeg txiav txim uas muaj kaum ob tus neeg ua lag luam thiab cov neeg sawv cev comics uas nug cov lus nug thaum lawv ci. Nws hais tias 150 tus neeg tuaj koom qhov kev ua yeeb yam kawg thiab caw kuv tuaj koom xyuas nws.

Kev ua neej nyob hauv San Francisco rov qab los.

Ntxiv mus

Thaum Lub Peb Hlis 7, tus kws tshaj lij nyiaj txiag Michael Milken ncaws tawm ntawm Montgomery Summit hauv Los Angeles thiab SXSW siv sijhawm rau Austin, Lub Peb Hlis 10 txog 19, ob qho tib si nrog cov kev sib tham AI uas muaj Jasper thiab nws pawg. Nyob twj ywm.