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Partner at @MenloVentures. Investor: Anthropic, OpenRouter, Modal, Wispr, Pangram, Greptile, Inception, Goodfire. prior: Glean, Google Search. Cornell CS.
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The departing team member says Claude Code now handles large migrations and builds new products.
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OpenRouter reportedly processed more tokens in the nine weeks before November 2, 2026, than in all its earlier history.
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Subvocal claims non-contact sensing decodes nearly invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words per minute.
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Anthropic's repository credits an internal Claude model but says the result says nothing about solving formulas in practice.
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OpenAI says its claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis was formalized in Lean and made public.
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Zhan says Sequoia, Jeff Dean, Sachin Katti and Philip Wong will be among the fund’s limited partners.
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Two posts point to security incidents and urge AI-assisted defenses; one specifically calls for faster vulnerability detection and patching.
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Strebulaev says Andreessen Horowitz scored 22,509 points, about 1.6 times Lightspeed Venture Partners' score.
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A post argues open-weight cyber models benefit defenders, citing progress finding bugs and the cost of comparable closed models.
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A user calculates the range assuming 97% cached input tokens and GPU rental costs of $3–$6 per hour.
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The launch post claims the diffusion LLM outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 on quality.
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Greptile names Menlo Ventures as lead investor and says it reviews over 1% of GitHub pull requests daily.
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Glimpse’s team claims competitive frontier performance compared with Astra on key public visual reasoning benchmarks.
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Goodfire researcher Nick Cammarata argues that modern tools reveal most neurons as legible in models up to trillions of parameters.
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Modal says it recently crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate, with Sandboxes alone at a $300 million run rate.
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In October 2026, a post put the median age of the startups involved at four years.
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A user argues that founders can raise money more easily in the US with less dilution, while engineers earn more.
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A poster says the teen left a top-10 US college after two weeks, following a year-long AI internship.
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A user estimates OpenRouter handles about 1% of total inference spending, using Opus to convert the platform's public token stats.
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One post questions how much revenue OpenAI keeps after partners take a cut and argues token growth matters more.