Jamin Ball
@jaminball • 92,566 subscribers
Altimeter Partner working with software businesses at the earliest stages of product market fit. Dad to 4 amazing kids. No investment advice, all views personal
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Introducing: First Pass! Altimeter's new video series breaking down the latest trends in AI, hosted by myself and Palak Goel AI evolves so quickly. We wanted to create a series of short (~10 minute) videos taking a First Pass on the latest trends First up: Simon Mo on GLM5.2
Jamin Ball151,398 views • 2 months ago
We're very excited for to come out of stealth today. We Altimeter Capital co-led their seed round with TLV Partners, and believe they're building a crucial layer in the AI stack. It's clear two things are happening simultaneously - AI systems are making more consequential decision while their risk is going up (see Hugging Face incident). An existential questions becomes "how can you prove a model did what it was supposed to do?" Attestable is building this exact integrity and verification layer for AI, using zero-knowledge proofs to verify the right model ran on the right inputs and called the right tools. As agent workloads become longer running, verifying each step becomes even more important. The technical breakthroughs the Attestable has made to get here are incredible. Zero-knowledge proofs used to carry a 1,000,000x compute overhead, making them completely impractical for AI. The Attestable team has gotten this down many orders of magnitude, making ZK for AI something that can actually be deployed. We'll need this kind of integrity / security solution in a post-quantum world :) From securing model weights, to proving open models are backdoor-free, to giving agents verifiable identity - Attestable is building the integrity layer for an AI-powered world. As co-founder Yogi puts it: every token should be a proven token. More below from my conversation with Yogi
Jamin Ball28,021 views • 20 days ago
Next up on Altimeter Capital First Pass: A conversation with Matei Zaharia from Databricks on Omnigent Agents are in their infancy, and so are the ways we develop and build them. Omnigent is a meta-harness aimed at solving many of the gaps in agent development today
Jamin Ball46,204 views • 1 month ago
Next up on First Pass: A conversation with Simon Mo from Inferact on Kimi K3. We discuss: - The basics on the K3 model (it's huge!) - Why open weight models are important - The engineering complexity of working with a model this large - Innovative licensing models And more!
Jamin Ball13,572 views • 1 month ago
Checkpointing saves the state of an AI model during training so you can resume or recover without starting over. But writing massive checkpoints fast enough to keep GPUs busy is a real challenge. Below, David Flynn describes how Hammerspace makes checkpointing efficient
Jamin Ball11,088 views • 1 year ago
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