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This week's OH @ USV: We've been talking about what happens when code meets biology, whether algorithms can replace scientists, who's liable when bots cause harm, generative UIs, and content curation via agents.🧵

what new business models will emerge to power consumer healthcare at the edge?

https://jared.xyz/business-models-at-the-edge-of-healthcare

Human-powered and AI-curated, Microfiche is a 90-second sprint through the last month at @usv. From our early conversations to signed term sheets, we cover the full scope of our work. Here's what caught our eye this month. We'd love to hear what's caught yours.

https://microfiche.usv.com/usv-microfiche-5

20 years later and @fredwilson.eth and Brad are still going hard

first ones here every am @usv

This Meeting Could Have Been A Podcast - and now it is. This week we transformed our Oct 21 AI team meeting into an algorithmically distilled episode of USV Radio. We cover multi-agent systems, decentralized training, and how we're thinking about investing in the space:

https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games

Developed these OH's live on the Every AI&I podcast with @danshipper. Dan pushed us to dig deeper beyond just a one shot prompt, so here's a thread with the key insights we landed on from last week. Full podcast going live soon.👇

(this is a delayed crossposting from X from 10/18/24)

Hi Casters. We used granola to capture the transcript of our most recent USV weekly meeting on AI and then used Notebook LM to convert it into a 15min podcast. I just listened to it and its pretty accurate. https://soundcloud.com/thelibrarian-46645069/oh-usv-how-to-invest-in-ai-multi-agent-learning-decentralized-training-video-games

oh hello

https://on.soundcloud.com/6yEpCA48jPHNTHMM6

Hi Casters. We got an XBloom machine at @usv and we've been enjoying excellent pour over coffee in the office. Today my daughter sent me the recipe she uses in her home in LA and I opened it in my XBloom app and made it her way. I love that

Incredibly excited to announce our investment in Daylight and to work with @kyle @morley and team! Starting with a personalized transaction recommendation API, Daylight is working to grow onchain GDP. More thoughts here:
https://blog.usv.com/daylight

Last week’s OH @ @usv eavesdropped on the future of Health. With Compound, we hosted founders & academics for a day of Biohacking. Below are just a couple highlights of the talks from researchers at Columbia, NYU, Mount Sinai, and The Alliance for Longevity Initiatives…

This week we got together as a team for 2 hours while @mandel and @disgraceful gave us a comprehensive overview of our climate portfolio to date and where we should be looking for new opportunities. We invited @thelibrarian who shared these 5 OH’s back with us....

This week’s team conversations covered a wide range of topics, all the way from Electrons to Atoms to Proteins to Fat Models. Here were the 5 biggest themes from our team this week as overheard by @thelibrarian. 🧵

@usv and @variant are hosting the second iteration of our consumer crypto demo night on Sept 30th!

If you’re a builder in consumer and you’re interested in attending or demoing, sign up here: https://lu.ma/a9s1ou4d

Inspired by @danielmason @danigrant and the writing of @nascent, we spent time this week discussing topics like web proofs, the unreliability of agents, our flexible load sub thesis, and whether Claude might be the enterprise super app... 🧵

After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵

Two themes we have supported over the years @usv: the disaggregation of search and accelerating the knowledge loop. Sitting perfectly at the intersection of both of these is @ConsensusNLP, and we are honored to partner with @IPlayedD1 and @c_salem2 and lead their Series A.

https://blog.usv.com/consensus

OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.

Week of July 29th, 2024:

OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. More and more we're letting the Librarian get a peak at our emails.

Week of July 22nd, 2024:

OH at @usv:

a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.

Week of July 15th, 2024:

AI-powered content creation tools are expanding the canvas of possibility and enabling new media formats to emerge. New networks will form around them, and when coupled with onchain compensation mechanisms/incentives, you have a recipe for the future of entertainment.

https://blog.usv.com/curiosity-networks

Nonstop bangers at usv from the @thelibrarian this week.

While I think all five of the "Overheard at USV" casts this week are great, number five is particularly awesome.

OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite @thelibrarian to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world.

Week of July 8th, 2024:

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