shaunbjohnson
@shaunbjohnson
Investing at @aixventureshq. Previously Product at Lilt, NimbleRx, PayPal. Husband & Father. SF/DFW/NYC. He/Him. Views are my own.
Announcing molab: a cloud-hosted marimo notebook workspace with link-based sharing. Experiment on AI, ML and data using the world’s best Python (and SQL!) notebook. Launching with examples from @huggingface, @weights_biases, and using @PyTorch marimo.io/blog/announcin…
Have you tried Wispr Flow? It’s made me rethink voice dictation as an integral part of my work processes. Congrats @tankots & team!
Super psyched to announce our $30M Series A led by @MenloVentures to build the voice interface for the AI era. Join us on the journey at @WisprFlow 🚀: as a user, or a teammate. It's going to be an incredible next few years.
Ion Stoica joined our AIX Founder Summit to talk about a few AI trends he has been thinking about: “Open-source models—especially from China—are quickly catching up to proprietary systems. Enterprise AI? It’s all about reliability, trust, and workflow fit. As use cases get…
At the AIX Ventures Founder Summit, @antgoldbloom (AIX Ventures Partner, CEO @ Sumble) discussed Navigating the AI Market. He reminds us: “Innovation is noisy; customers provide the clearest signal. Our team stays grounded by only applying LLM advances when they create real…
Weeks when we have @aixventureshq HQ events are some of the most exciting. On Saturday, we had Ion Stoica, @antgoldbloom, and @RichardSocher participate in a panel to discuss navigating this market as an AI founder. We discussed how to think about the application & infra layers,…
Excited to spotlight portfolio company @atmo_ai and their AI-driven typhoon forecasting at the upcoming "Rapid Intensification" event in SF. Join top atmospheric scientists, AI researchers, and national security experts for a unique night, complete with a typhoon wind simulator.…
Last week AIX Ventures Founding Partner @shaunbjohnson spoke with famed foreign affairs correspondent David Rothkopf about his predictions for geopolitical and regulatory battles over AI. Listen to their discussion on how he expects AI to shape the workforce and economy of…
Join me at @humanX_io next week to discuss the future of AI. @aixventureshq will have a big presence with Founding Partner @RichardSocher giving an exclusive Q&A to the conference and AIX hosting a dinner to discuss the geographic war for AI with guests from @OpenAI, @Google,…
Today we announce that @aixventureshq has led the Series A of @workhelix. Every enterprise must have an AI transformation war room. Deploying AI will lead to pricing power. When productivity improves through AI, gross- and operating- margins go up. This means price can…
Congrats to the entire @ProfluentBio team!
Congratulations to AIX Ventures portfolio company @ProfluentBio for announcing a major advancement in genome editing! As AIX Ventures Partner Krish Ramadurai puts it, this approach is exciting because the ability to reprogram natural CRISPR systems to create customized gene…
At NeurIPS today doing a Q&A with @zicokolter. We talked about scaling laws, open vs closed sourced, and what skillsets researchers need to successfully transition from academia to entrepreneurship.
"If your company has been slow to embrace AI tech, this is another reminder that the AI wave is already washing over us, and maybe it’s time to catch up." Choice words from @kiteaton, who covered AI predictions by @ClementDelangue, CEO of AIX Ventures portfolio company…
Experts make predictions about the future of tech all the time, but Clem Delangue’s platform Hugging Face is central to many current AI innovations—so when he talks about AI’s future, we should listen. @kiteaton trib.al/lwANX7c
As we get ready to welcome 2025, I’ve jotted down three AI 🤖 predictions for the year. -Top LLM companies will continue to see diminishing returns from new transformer-based models, and will double down on applications by introducing products with deeper workflows for knowledge…
Incredible to see AIX Ventures portfolio companies @huggingface and @perplexity_ai featured in @FortuneMagazine's 50 AI Innovators list. Congrats to @ClementDelangue, @AravSrinivas, and their teams! fortune.com/ranking/ai-inn…
Good take on where the current state of the art is, by Ben Affleck
Finally a grounded take on AI & filmmaking from a Hollywood A-lister. I agree with everything Ben Affleck said: 1. Yes, AI will shatter barriers to entry. Budgets will drop, the number of movies will rise, and more voices will have access to filmmaking. Paradoxically, this'll…
About to kick off the DPO talk at @aixventureshq with @chrmanning, Eric Mitchell, and Archit Sharma.
Looking at job posts over the last year, it looks like Amazon is making the broadest AI investment. 228 teams across the company posted jobs with GenAI projects over the past year, considerably more than any other company. blog.sumble.com/companies-with… Most interest is the breadth of…
Great insight from @aixventureshq Partner @antgoldbloom's, Gen AI for data cleaning and decision support is a massive, underexplored frontier. This is where AI can really transform industries: by automating complex analysis and unlocking new business insights. Exciting space.
The overlooked GenAI use case: cleaning, processing, and analyzing data. blog.sumble.com/the-overlooked… Job post data tell us what companies plan to do with GenAI. The most common use case is data analytics projects. Examples: - AstraZeneca: using LLMs on freeform documents to…
Kudos to @aixventureshq portco @huggingface and @ClementDelangue on this collaboration with @NVIDIAAI. Can't wait to see what the partnership brings for the future of robotics.