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Announcing our investment in Tavus

Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Tavus. The company is a leader in productizing the latest research in AI video generation – and applying this to enable customers to speak directly to each and every end-user…

Why we win: The new wave of investment in defense

Right place, right time Since a16z partners Katherine Boyle’s category-defining blog post Building American Dynamism was released early last year, the defense tech space has seen an influx of new venture capital interest, particularly from Silicon Valley investors. However, there’s…

LLMs and Sneaky Big Markets

Large language models are poised to have an immediate effect on how businesses use software. While the exact scale and impact of AI is not a topic we aim to wrestle with here, the intuitive applicability of this technology across…

New Ideas in AI: Getting LLMs to Reason Through Chain-of-Thought Prompting

October 16, 2023
Max Abram, Maggie Basta and Jeremy Kaufmann
AI Apps, Trends
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The latest session of our New Ideas in AI Series brought together yet another exciting group of leading engineers, founders, and academics from across the industry to discuss applications of chain-of-thought prompting with Jason Wei, a researcher at OpenAI. Jason’s…

The joy of not managing your own AI infrastructure in today’s world

August 15, 2023
Maggie Basta
AI Apps

Anyone paying attention to the current state of AI is aware of the exploding need for compute resources. Many of today’s engineers have now discovered the wonderful land of not managing your own infrastructure. There is a growing number of companies that now enable you to run your models or other compute-intensive workloads on their managed cloud by offering “serverless” GPUs and other performant compute options.

New Ideas In AI: Agents, their role, and viability in today’s world

July 11, 2023
Maggie Basta
AI Apps, Trends

Quick recap and video of the talk from our latest New Ideas in AI dinner series with guest speaker Joon Sung Park, who spoke about Generative Agents.

1,000 Engineering jobs in AI: Introducing Scale’s AI job board

Since 2015, 70%+ of our investing has focused on AI applications and infrastructure. We’re proud to have led early rounds for companies like Viz.ai, Observe.ai, Socure, and Forter well before LLMs or diffusion models brought AI into the mainstream. But we’re…

Open-sourcing the Scale chatbot

May 26, 2023
Javier Redondo
AI Apps

Applications that enable a natural language interface between people and data will be at the forefront of LLM enterprise adoption. At Scale, we launched a chatbot to increase access to information about our firm, but we also built it ourselves to gain an understanding of the solutions space. We've just published a blog post where we explore the architecture and share conclusions from this experience. We're also making the full source code available and free to use.

Cognitive Collective: RLHF Is Not a Magic Wand for Alignment

April 27, 2023
Guest Author
AI Apps, Trends

it is nearly impossible to define alignment, let alone achieve it. Human beings, in all their variance, capacity, and folly, make up the entire training pipeline, and we take such comfort in the fact that we call them all by the same name. But every human is individual, and models will change as their trainers do.