CM Weekly: CoPilots Growth, General vs Specific, How to Pitch VCs
Chris McCann's weekly newsletter on technology, startups, and venture capital.
Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.
🗞️ Interesting Reads
GitHub Co-Pilot now has 1.8 million paid subscribers, growing 35% quarter over quarter.
Within AI there is a tension between generalized platforms and vertical specific applications that solve specific use-cases.
It seems like large language models are reaching a plateau of how much quality it can gain through becoming ever larger.
Amazon grew their streaming service Prime Video to over 200 million monthly viewers.
Mark Zuckerberg is quite skeptical of the leap to AGI and does not believe the model is the end product (hence Meta open sourcing Llama 3).
A fantastic deck on how to pitch VC’s and aligning your story to your deck (and all of your other materials).
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