Max Abram, Author at Scale Venture Partners

Announcing our investment in Bland

August 28, 2024
Max Abram and Andy Vitus
Trends
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Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Bland. The company is a leader in productizing the latest research in voice AI and applying the technology so their customers can independently and flexibly automate their calling operations. Human-to-human…

New ideas in AI: DPO has given us alignment without the overhead

June 20, 2024
Maggie Basta, Max Abram and Jeremy Kaufmann
AI Apps
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Over the past 2 years, AI has seen ideas move from research to industry implementation at a record breaking pace. This phenomenon continues to motivate our ongoing event series, New Ideas in AI, which brings together today’s most relevant…

Announcing our investment in Tavus

Scale is thrilled to announce our Series A investment in Tavus. The company is a leader in productizing the latest research in AI video generation – and applying this to enable customers to speak directly to each and every end-user…

New Ideas in AI: Getting LLMs to Reason Through Chain-of-Thought Prompting

October 16, 2023
Max Abram, Maggie Basta and Jeremy Kaufmann
AI Apps, Trends
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The latest session of our New Ideas in AI Series brought together yet another exciting group of leading engineers, founders, and academics from across the industry to discuss applications of chain-of-thought prompting with Jason Wei, a researcher at OpenAI. Jason’s…

1,000 Engineering jobs in AI: Introducing Scale’s AI job board

Since 2015, 70%+ of our investing has focused on AI applications and infrastructure. We’re proud to have led early rounds for companies like Viz.ai, Observe.ai, Socure, and Forter well before LLMs or diffusion models brought AI into the mainstream. But we’re…

Generative AI Index Use Case Glossary

October 27, 2022
Max Abram
AI Apps

A quick glossary of our Generative AI Index use case definitions

Natural Language Generation

June 16, 2022
Max Abram
AI Apps, Trends

Writing this content is a desk worker’s low-skill labor, demanding little skill but lots of time. (The quality of GMail autocomplete, introduced in 2018, illustrates just how repetitive business writing is.) It’s this attractive target that makes Natural Language Generation (“NLG”) products so exciting, because this new technology has finally grokked the patterns interwoven in our prose. NLG products are newly feasible, enabled by linguistic “transformer” models like GPT-3 from OpenAI and Jurassic-1 from AI21 Labs.

The Opportunity in Usage Based Billing Infrastructure

Though usage-based models are not new—having first been championed by AWS (2005) and Twilio (2008) — there’s been a notable increase in their adoption in recent years. This trend continues to accelerate as the landscape for usage-based models quickly evolves. Scale's Max Abram on the next frontier of Usage Based Billing Infrastructure.

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Announcing our investment in Bland

New ideas in AI: DPO has given us alignment without the overhead

Announcing our investment in Tavus

New Ideas in AI: Getting LLMs to Reason Through Chain-of-Thought Prompting

1,000 Engineering jobs in AI: Introducing Scale’s AI job board

Generative AI Index Use Case Glossary

Natural Language Generation

The Opportunity in Usage Based Billing Infrastructure

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