ANNOUNCING Today, we're launching the $100M Anthology Fund, an Anthropic and Menlo Ventures partnership to fund Seed and Series As of the next generation of AI startups around the world, with unique benefits! There's never been a better time in technology to be building. 1/7

This tool no one has heard of has saved me >$1000 by automating calls. I use it at least 3x every week. I used it to: — find cheaper car insurance — get discounts on subscriptions — negotiate home services — call the IRS to verify things — do visa tasks! I use it for every errand we ever have time for. It just asks for any info it needs, and goes off to do what it does. Only charges tips and a portion of what they save. It's called Pine AI. 10/10 would recommend.

Elon believes a majority of AI workloads will be diffusion models. I’d pay close attention to Inception Labs, a team of Stanford professors who are doing foundational work here. In the history of computing, no single ML architecture has been dominant for more than a decade.

🚨 Today is a turning point in AI. A Chinese open source model is #1. Kimi K2 Thinking scored 51% in Humanity's Last Exam, higher than GPT-5 and every other model. $0.6/M in, $2.5/M output. The best at writing, and does 15tps on two Mac M3 Ultras! Seminal moment in AI. Try it on OpenRouter:

You gotta love how Tobi, a $10B+ founder of Shopify, took time out of his busy day to build one of the neatest, most useful command line tools ever, “try”. When engineers stay true to their roots despite all their success, it’s beautiful to see.

Link: github.com/tobi/try

40% of startups die after a seed. 50% of the remainder die after a Series A. 60% of the remainder die after a Series B. 58% of the remainder die after a Series C. Roughly ~2.5% after the seed are acquired, so not “dead”. 0.5-1% go IPO. Startups are hard.

Link: 19pine.ai/ (not an investor)

openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kim… Blog: moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2… Reddit hands on review (might be AI generated): teddit.net/r/LocalLLaMA/s/zO…

If you made it this far you might as well follow the founders @StefanoErmon @adityagrover_ @volokuleshov and @_inception_ai

And here’s a little bit of lore about Inception cofounder Aditya Grover

Here’s a real side by side between Gemini 2.5 Flash and Mercury. It’s over 4x faster at similar accuracy! Okay maybe didn’t do Connect 4 in 2s, but not much longer.

Just look at these numbers! 62 on LiveCodeBench is #15 in the world, as good as models like o3-mini medium and Gemini 2.5 Flash at an end to end latency or ~1.3s!! Reasoning / thinking to come soon. Let me show you magical it is in action:

Source: inceptionlabs.ai/blog/mercur… techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/in…

This Stanford professor just raised a $50M Seed and have built a 10x faster and 10x cheaper AI coding model with the performance of Gemini Flash / Haiku. Inception Labs’ Mercury model can implement games like Connect 4 from scratch in ~2s. The speed feels magical, like going from dial up to broadband. And it’s purely achieved by the novel use of diffusion models for code, that Stefano and two PhD student turned professor cofounders invented years ago. Maybe there’s a world where we don’t need billions in compute when you can run quality models cheaper ($0.25/M input, $1/M output tokens). The next step is to get them to be at frontier quality. A small testament to just how incredible this team is the long list of incredible startups have already come out of Stefano’s lab: founders and key members of SSI, Pika, Luma, Together, Harmonic, Wispr, Liquid, Radical Numerics and many more! AI veterans Andrew Ng and senpai Andrej Karpathy are also investing alongside us as well as Nvidia, Microsoft, Databricks and Snowflake. Read more technical details here:

I should clarify - at EACH stage, 2.5% of companies are acquired! Not all acquisitions are good outcomes though

Specifically, I mean young Indian founders who studied in college in India and did not really work a job for long (>2yrs) before starting a company

This follows other young Indian founders at of course Perplexity but also Cartesia, Composio, mem0 and many more