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Hot Off the AI Furnace 🧨🔥 - August 26
Few days left for 35% off tickets, Arcee AI Spotlight, Events and Updates
Hamza from The AI Furnace & Angela from The AI Furnace 🧨🔥
August 26, 2024
A newsletter for The AI Furnace Community.
Hot Off The Furnace 🔥
Only a few days left for 35% off for Conference Tickets 🚨
Arcee AI Spotlight
👋 Hey fam - extending our 35% off discount!
Due to popular demand, we are extending our 35% discount offer to the end of this month for The AI Hot 100 Conference being held in NYC on September 18th. Promotion ends soon⏳. Use code: 1YEARANNI
Grab your ticket here before prices go up👇
Some of the AI Startups we’re bringing together for this incredible event include:
Maven AGI (raised $28M from M13)
Arcee.ai (raised $29M from Emergence)
Reality Defender (raised $15M from DCVC)
Nexa AI (raised $8.75M from Fusion Fund)
LastMile AI (raised $10M from Gradient Ventures)
Piramidal (YC W24, raised $6M from Lionheart Ventures)
+More
We’ll have some dope AI VCs joining including:
A16z
Lerer Hippeau
Gradient Ventures
Flybridge
Eniac Ventures
M13
Creative Capital
Link Ventures
IBM Ventures
Left Lane Capital
True Ventures
Communitas Capital
Apprentis Ventures
+More
🔦 The AI Hot 100 Spotlight: Arcee AI - The Small Language Model Coup D’Etat
This week we’re spotlighting Arcee AI (raised $29M, led by Emergence Capital), one of the Hot 100 startups selected by The AI Furnace to attend The AI Hot 100 Conference.
Arcee AI enables enterprises to create their own domain-specific Small Language Models (SLMs), using their own data – empowering them to go from dataset to deployment in one easy end-to-end platform.
The startup has pioneered two of the most cutting-edge model training techniques (Model Merging and Spectrum), enabling their platform to create SLMs that outperform traditional closed source Large Language Models (LLMs) on efficiency, accuracy, and all key benchmarks.
In our AI Hot 100 Blog interview, Co-founder Brian says “Mark and I worked at Hugging Face where we watched so many companies struggle to get off the ground with LLMs and the pain associated with them when in production. We wanted to build a better system that would allow them to be able to scale LLMs in production - our research pointed us to building Smaller models that were domain adaptive with the companies data.”
They have an all star founding team who were ex-Hugging Face and raised a $29M in funding from investors such as Emergence Capital, Long Journey Ventures, Scott Banister, Flybridge, Centre Street Partners, Arcadia Capital and more.
Interested in learning more about their startup and how they got started? Check out our AI Hot 100 Blog interview with the co-founder.
Want to see Brian Benedict (Co-founder, Arcee AI) in action? Come to The AI Hot 100 Conference where he’ll be discussing Trends In Language Models.
About The AI Hot 💯 Conference
September 18th. NYC.
The Who’s Who of Early Stage AI. 100 of the Hottest Funded Startups in the World, All in One Place. 500+ Investors, Founders, Corporate Leaders and Researchers.
Promo Code✨ For our loyal community, we are offering a 35% off discount for our valued newsletter followers to celebrate our 1 year anniversary
Promo code is 1YEARANNI. Discount ends 8/31, midnight.
Make sure to get yours here!
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📣 Are you creating the next big AI company or know of anyone who is? Apply here to be part of the AI Hot 100 today!
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About the AI Furnace Community
The AI Furnace is a global network of 15,000+ AI founders, developers and researchers. It was started by Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, AI founders from NYC and London who started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco).