Ashish Kakran @ashishkakran
early-stage investor @Sierra_Ventures | investing in cloud, dev tools, data/ml infrastructure sierraventures.com San Francisco, CA Joined June 2009-
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Everything just shook. Big earthquake in Berkeley, CA. #earthquake
Listen to my conversation with @ashishkakran Partner of Sierra Ventures on Spotify: bit.ly/3v1R0Tu Apple: bit.ly/4bTCwpD Youtube: bit.ly/3uXthnv #vc #ai #startup
🚀 Venture with Grace: This Week’s Recap (Week 80) This week on Venture with Grace, we explored startup sprints, AI-powered customer support, vertical SaaS growth, and the latest in infrastructure and AI: 🔹 @jazer , GP at Character Capital — on Startup Sprints & Design DNA 🔹…
SIERRA Partner, @ashishkakran, joined an insightful panel at the Confidential Computing Summit, hosted by @opaquesys & the Confidential Computing Consortium. The conversation spanned some of the most urgent challenges & opportunities in enterprise AI and security.…
As AI continues to shape our world, its responsible development remains essential. Prime Ministers Carney and Starmer met with @cohere CEO Aidan Gomez to discuss a new partnership to advance AI systems that boost safety, national security, and innovation in both countries.
Big news from the Sierra Ventures team: @ashishkakran joined us as a Partner! Ashish has backed category-defining startups like Cohere, Harness, and Isovalent—and brings deep expertise across AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. More on his journey → sierraventures.com/content/new-pa…
Market Map: 130+ companies transforming the AI Software Development market! This map contains emerging #startups solving engineering pain points, including codegen. If you would like your startup to be added to the map, please DM me. #engineering #ai #vc
new sota for multilingual vision :) Aya-Vision-32B huggingface.co/collections/Co…
Our MIT class “6.S184: Introduction to Flow Matching and Diffusion Models” is now available on YouTube! We teach state-of-the-art generative AI algorithms for images, videos, proteins, etc. together with the mathematical tools to understand them. diffusion.csail.mit.edu (1/4)
Introducing Command R7B: the smallest, fastest, and final model in our R series of enterprise-focused LLMs! It delivers a powerful combination of state-of-the-art performance in its class and efficiency to lower the cost of building AI applications. cohere.com/blog/command-r…
Most llms still struggle with languages beyond English. Today cohere is changing that! @CohereForAI just release a new open weight model called Aya Expanse with sota performance 23 languages! This is a breakthrough for global coverage. Excited to see how you use it! :)
Wow! What a day for science.
Very grateful for @geoffreyhinton. A real hero for our field and for Canada.
Very grateful for @geoffreyhinton. A real hero for our field and for Canada.
Congratulations to the @harnessio team for launching our biggest platform update to date! 👏🎊 Today at {unscripted} we unveiled a suite of new products that embed AI into the very core of our platform. We’re excited to see how these tools help engineers transcend routine tasks,…
Transforming Transformers - this architecture powers the most popular public and private AI models today. We wonder then — what’s next? Is this the architecture that will lead to better reasoning? Sharing some thoughts here: medium.com/p/8495348559e2 #ai #founders @thomvest
So happy to see @sarahookr and @PSH_Lewis on the AI 100 :) they have both contributed so much to @cohere and the field in general. Working with such impactful and ingenious people is one of the best perks of being at cohere :)
Command R and R+ just got: - a lot better at coding, tool use and multilingual RAG - better in general across the board - faster - cheaper Happy building :) docs.cohere.com/changelog/comm…
Vinesh Phogat disqualified. This is too much as a fan of Indian sports. Time for me to stop watching the Paris Olympics now. Heartbreaking #vineshphogat #wrestling #Olympics
If Saurabh Netravalkar, who had figures of 2-18 and bowled USA to victory in the super over vs Pakistan, wasn't disgustingly talented enough -- ( He is an engineer at Oracle and an MS in CS from Cornell University.) he's also a damn fine ukelele player. (video from his insta)
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