A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks
championed by colleagues like @trevordarrell, @pabbeel, @istoica05, and others—is leading the nation, unleashing the creativity of top students and research labs through industry-sponsored open-source...
NYC-based Pinecone Systems, which offers vector data storage for LLMs, raised a $100M Series B led by a16z at a $750M valuation, up from $168M in February 2022
Today, we are super excited to be partnering with Pinecone team … Guido Appenzeller : Super excited to announce our investment in Pinecone. Vector DB's are becoming a a pivotal building block as the ...
A look at the history of open source as the big VC raises and multi-billion dollar exits for open source software startups become the norm
Editor's Note: The open source software (OSS) movement has created some of our most important and widely used technologies, including operating systems, web browsers, and databases. Tweets: @cathcam ,...