“KBR's multi-year partnership provides capital and a robust commercial distribution channel.”
“Orbital targets improved efficiency, reduced emissions, and enhanced reliability across global upstream, downstream, and petrochemical operations.”
“$20M funding led by KBR with Databricks Ventures; Houston expansion”
Source→“"Harvey, in collaboration with Applied Compute, based on GLM 5.1, trained their own model, and on their Legal Agent Benchmark, it beat Anthropic and OpenAI." [00:52:33]”
Source→“American post-training companies (Applied Compute, Fireworks) are combining Chinese open-source models with American enterprise clients to undercut Frontier Lab pricing. [00:52:33]”
Source→“Cognition: AI software engineering agent company - Named as an Applied Compute customer”
“AI infrastructure company valued at $1.3 billion, helping enterprises train custom AI models on proprietary data”
“Mercor: AI-powered hiring and talent marketplace - Named as an Applied Compute customer”
“Applied Compute helps businesses train custom AI models on their own data: smaller, cheaper, and purpose-built for the work they actually do”
“"Every company that runs its critical workflows on someone else's model is building on shifting sand."”
“"How a specialized model built for DoorDash outperformed frontier models on a narrow, high-value task"”
“Yash dropped out of Stanford and spent two years at OpenAI working on post-training infrastructure and Codex”
“The Thiel Fellowship came in March 2024 when the company was at ~$2M revenue... Largest value-add: the credibility stamp to investors and hires, and the community (met Yash, CEO of Applied Compute, previously our customer at OpenAI).”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.