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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Grace Gong @gracegongGG

3 weeks ago

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

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🚀 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 🔹…

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SIERRA Ventures @Sierra_Ventures

2 months ago

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.…

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Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM

3 months ago

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.

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SIERRA Ventures @Sierra_Ventures

3 months ago

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…

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Ashish Kakran @ashishkakran

6 months ago

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

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Nick Frosst @nickfrosst

6 months ago

new sota for multilingual vision :) Aya-Vision-32B huggingface.co/collections/Co…

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Peter Holderrieth @peholderrieth

6 months ago

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)

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cohere @cohere

9 months ago

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…

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Nick Frosst @nickfrosst

11 months ago

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! :)

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Ashish Kakran @ashishkakran

11 months ago

Wow! What a day for science.

SpaceX @SpaceX

11 months ago

Wow! What a day for science.

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Aidan Gomez @aidangomez

11 months ago

Very grateful for @geoffreyhinton. A real hero for our field and for Canada.

Nick Frosst @nickfrosst

11 months ago

Very grateful for @geoffreyhinton. A real hero for our field and for Canada.

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Jyoti Bansal @jyotibansalsf

11 months ago

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,…

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Ashish Kakran @ashishkakran

a year ago

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

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Nick Frosst @nickfrosst

a year ago

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 :)

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Nick Frosst @nickfrosst

a year ago

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…

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Ashish Kakran @ashishkakran

a year ago

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

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Ashish Kakran @ashishkakran

a year ago

This day belongs to Netravalkar. I think all of India is googling him after what he did today for the US cricket team. What a legend! #USAvsPak #cricket

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jonathan selvaraj @jon_selvaraj

a year ago

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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Aidan Gomez @aidangomez

a year ago

Introducing Rerank 3! Our latest model focused on powering much more complex and accurate search. It's the fastest, cheapest, and highest performance reranker that exists. We're really excited to see how this model influences RAG applications and search stacks.