steve jang
@stevejang
entrepreneur, now vc | founder & partner @kindredventures | early investor 🌱 @uber @coinbase @perplexity_ai @fal @color @playAIofficial @whisperaero @zora
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if its's good or bad. -Miles Davis 🎺
.@KindredVentures founder @stevejang on the three-horse race between @Uber, @Tesla and @Waymo. "The rollout takes time. You have to get it just right. There's really no margin for error... Safety, local government, public opinion, all of these things are super sensitive when it…
Where are all the consumer AI apps??? This is the question I posed to s-tier consumer investors @scottbelsky (Uber, Pinterest) and @stevejang (Coinbase, Postmates). We're almost 3 years into the AI hype the we're still all mostly just talking about ChatGPT, Perplexity, and…
really, really good.
OK, Perplexity’s Assistant in the new Comet browser is good. Really good.
the openai IMO news hit me pretty heavy this weekend i'm still in the acute phase of the impact, i think i consider myself a professional mathematician (a characterization some actual professional mathematicians might take issue with, but my party my rules) and i don't think i…
Why is the @perplexity_ai Comet browser unique? @KindredVentures Founder @stevejang explains: “What Perplexity is doing is saying, maybe…it's not just about knowledge and answers. Maybe it's also about being able to help people take actions, through the browser.” “But the most…
Overall, @PerplexityComet earned a spot as my new default 👑 It has a powerful agent built in, and the connections into G Suite + ability to set Tasks unlock real use cases. But, I also expect to remain a Dia WAU for Skills, which allow you to build workflows to feed context…
Kimi K2 paper dropped! describes: - MuonClip optimizer - large-scale agentic data synthesis pipeline that systematically generates tool-use demonstrations via simulated and real-world environments - an RL framework that combines RLVR with a self- critique rubric reward mechanism…
Perplexity is now the #1 overall app on App Store in India, ahead of ChatGPT.
My interview with @AravSrinivas, CEO of @perplexity_ai. We discuss their new AI-first browser Comet, how the internet is changing with agents, competition with Google and others, workforce automation and more!
can’t walk away from a @stevejang & @gorkemyurt convo without learning something awesome. really fun @KindredVentures x @fal collab event today 🔥
America will cease to be exceptional if the world’s best AI researchers can’t even be in the country
It is a major policy failure that the US cannot accommodate top AI conferences due to visa issues.
Thrilled to be partnering with @airtelindia to bring the power of @perplexity_ai to their 360M customers. airtel.in/press-release/…
🇮🇳 @perplexity_ai 🤝 @airtelindia
fun deep chat about consumer AI on this podcast with @scottbelsky & @mignano: - personal ai - context & memory - open v closed models - ai hardware - ai browsers & @PerplexityComet ☄️ what should we talk about next? reply below 👇🏽 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gen…
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Thank you @stevejang and @KindredVentures for your unwavering belief in @PlayAIOfficial! Within @Meta Superintelligence Lab, we're excited to take our learnings from building voice models and products to fundamentally change the way billions of people interact with software 🚀
super psyched for you and the team! ❤️
Thanks Steve, it has been great working with you and the Kindred family over the past year, excited for what’s ahead.