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Our Investment in Heidi Health
By Sri Chandrasekar and Jeff Lu We are excited to announce that Point72 Private Investments is leading a $65 million Series B in Heidi Health, an AI-powered clinical documentation platform focused on reducing the administrative burden on...
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Doubling Down on Netradyne
By Sri Chandrasekar, Tara Stokes and Jeff Lu. Point72 Private Investments is proud to be leading Netradyne’s $90M Series D round. We first partnered with Avneesh Agrawal and the Netradyne team back in 2018 when we invested in...
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Looking back on 2024: The AI playbook takes shape
By Tara Stokes AI Founders’ Chicken-and-Egg Problem Like many, we believe startups benefit from a moat. But creating one as a tech startup – especially an AI startup today – feels increasingly daunting. Investors and builders keen to find...
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Clunky copilot or benevolent boss? Why I believe AI should prompt us
By Sri Chandrasekar Consider how much time predictive typing on your phone or in email saves you. Perhaps one minute per day? If so, those savings don’t exactly reduce our work to the 15-hour work week John Maynard Keynes...
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Business Insider: Artificial intelligence is coming for venture firms. VCs predict it could reduce head count by more than 50%.
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Road Work Ahead: AI Won’t Fix Enterprise Process Challenges
By Ryan Fauber and Sri Chandrasekar Despite what billions of VC dollars seem to imply, generative AI is not a magic bullet for companies. In fact, unless businesses fundamentally rethink how work actually gets done, they will lose...
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Business Insider: Meet the rising stars of venture capital, who shook up the industry in 2023
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Data Humanized: Tara Stokes on how generative AI raises the stakes for data skills
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Association of Computational Linguistics Conference (ACL) 2023 – Our Expectations
By Ryan Fauber “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar Wilde. Have you ever returned to your writing to realize it was a bit less coherent than...
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2023 – Our Expectations
By Graham Littlehale and Ryan Fauber Vision is the central technological element in some of the best works of science fiction like iRobot, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and The Matrix. Without significant advancements in computer vision, these works...
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Pitch Perfect: Generative Voice and the Future of Content Consumption
By Ryan Fauber Disclaimer: this was not written by ChatGPT. However, the same can’t be said for an increasing portion of the content we come across online. In the space of 6 months we’ve gone from laughing at how...
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The Transformative Power of ChatGPT in Education: Bringing “The Diamond Age” to Life
By Sri Chandrasekar I’ve always thought that Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age was his best book. One might claim that Snow Crash was better (it was the book that introduced the concept of the Metaverse), but there was something...
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Demo Day: Five Tips for Founders
By Tara Stokes Setting the Stage Startup accelerators such as Y Combinator, Techstars or Entrepreneur First can be an extremely valuable resource for early-stage teams looking for capital, mentorship, network and playbooks from the people who have been...
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Customer Service x Large Language Models
By Tara Stokes Our Perspective In Generative AI: Context Is All You Need, we shared our excitement for the application of large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 for use cases across the enterprise. When evaluating...
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Generative AI: Context Is All You Need
By Tara Stokes Generative AI: Context Is All You Need In Dumbledore’s office, Harry Potter stumbles across a Pensieve – a magical stone basin allowing his Hogwarts Headmaster to transfer and store memories from his mind to be...