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New York City-based Betaworks has closed its third fund at $66M to invest in early-stage AI startups. Betaworks, a staple of the NYC tech ecosystem since 2008, will focus its new fund on investing in pre-seed and seed-stage AI companies. The firm has been investing in AI since 2016 and has backed companies like Hugging Face. Fund III is larger than the firm's previous funds ($46M Fund II in 2020 and $48M Fund I in 2016) and saw many of its previous limited partners return to invest, a strong signal in a challenging fundraising environment for VCs. The fund will seek to make at least 25 pre-seed to seed investments, as well as 50 investments into startups as part of the Betaworks Camps program. Congratulations to the Betaworks team. TechCrunch: https://lnkd.in/d--hfMpa #VentureCapital #AI #EarlyStage #SeedFunding #NYCTech #Fundraising

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It's crazy how quickly things evolve in AI world. A few weeks ago I was setup OpenClaw, then Nanoclaw (ht: 👾 Andrew Draper) and now Claude has essentially replicated everything natively. With Claude Channels (released yesterday) you can now setup a private messaging channel with your agents - they can push messages to you and you can chat with them like a personal assistant. Here's how you set it up: 1. Install Claude - ideally on a remote server. I have it on a DigitalOcean droplet with 2 GB of memory - only $12 / month. You can use whatever you like - there are less expensive options available. 2. Install my open source agent framework from https://lnkd.in/eSBRDwh2. Don't know Git? That's what Claude is for - just ask Claude to install it. 3. Setup a Claude channel following instructions at https://lnkd.in/e7uBZ_YA. Don't know how to do that? Just ask Claude to do it! 4. You can now send messages to your main agent, which can dispatch things to more customized agents. It's not hard to do - I guarantee you'll be able to get this done. Chatbots were helpful - having a personal assistant one message away to help you get things done is taking AI to the next level.

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Building a production-ready streaming user embedding pipeline in ~5 minutes with Zipline + Claude code: https://lnkd.in/gnWsjrbn Why is Zipline + Claude Code such an effective combo? 1) Chronon offers a simple API that unifies batch + streaming computation, online serving and offline backfilling, and allows for flexible aggregations, transformations and embeddings. It automates the complex infrastructure involved in building these pipelines, allowing the AI to focus on getting the semantics right (which is what it’s good at). 2) The Zipline skill gives the AI a few critical tools: the ability to read metadata about various data sources (giving it starting schemas to build pipelines), plus the ability to call `eval` on the Zipline entities that it creates, which allows it to verify that everything that it creates is indeed correct quickly without needing to any data processing. The result is that you build powerful pipelines easier than ever before. Something that would have taken a team of engineers weeks to do can now be done with a single prompt in 5 minutes. Check it out in this brief demo.

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Worth paying attention to... Anthropic vs. Cursor. While Cursor was paying Anthropic hundreds of millions in API fees to power its AI code editor, Anthropic seems to have studied exactly what developers wanted, then launched Claude Code to "eat" their biggest distribution partner. The result. Claude Code hit $1B ARR in just six months and has already surged past $2.5B, proving that when you're a "wrapper" startup, you're often just paying your provider to learn how to replace you. Keep an eye on Cursor layoffs...

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Nvidia just released nemoclaw Link in comments. Their toolkit of enterprise safe claw bots. I will take a look and have a review, isolated sandboxes, NVIDIA compute, security policies. You can do most of this in docker and docker compose, but the benefit here is one click install. Enterprise level AI employees are not ready for prime time, but soon they might be. And when they are ready? 24/7 always on AI Employees.

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Management of AI Agents? A thought provoking way to develope the management of AI Agents (Agentic AI Agents). Intelligent Internet also has a very grounded business model at its core. #familyoffice #DigitalAssets #Convergence

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This is MASSIVE. From a legendary guy. The future of operational efficiency has arrived. It's still b0.1 version, but hard not to see the potential and where things are headed...

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<<Verification Loop - Verify its own Work = $1 Billion ARR Claude code >> << Why verification loops are the real unlock for AI-generated code If there is a single reason Claude Code has reportedly hit $1 billion in annual recurring revenue so quickly, it is likely the verification loop. The AI is not just a text generator; it is a tester. "Claude tests every single change I land to claude.ai/code using the Claude Chrome extension," Cherny wrote. "It opens a browser, tests the UI, and iterates until the code works and the UX feels good." He argues that giving the AI a way to verify its own work — whether through browser automation, running bash commands, or executing test suites — improves the quality of the final result by "2-3x." The agent doesn't just write code; it proves the code works. >>

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