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🌠 Jury Reveal for our Consumer Edge AI Hackathon! 🌠 After taking Quack AI to YC and launching The Drop with Julia Denoly I'm thrilled to have joined the Entrepreneur First talent investing team — now on a mission to find Europe’s most ambitious tech founders and bring them together in our next programme in Paris & SF. Julia & I have teamed up again to launch the Spotlight Hackathons. Our first edition is next week in Paris! The challenge: bringing Gen AI from the cloud to the edge, for new & fun consumer use-cases. For this edition, we’re joining forces with Hugging Face, Meta & PyTorch, and Scaleway, in the fabulous Paris HQ of Ekimetrics. - Teams will not only be supported by exceptional mentors (we have the pleasure of hosting Ali Khosh and Mergen Nachin from the PyTorch team coming from the US) but also to be judged by SOTA entrepreneurs & AI researchers made in France. These include: - Laurent Mazare CTO of Kyutai- representing the best of Open Source research today - Eliot Andres, CTO of Photoroom - who else for a consumer AI hackathon than our French success story - Xavier Fischer from Datakalab - tackling edge way before Gen AI was a thing Spots are limited and applications are already overflowing, so we’ve moved the deadline up a couple of days. Submit yours by Friday, Nov 15th (EOD) for your chance to secure a last minute spot. Link is in description 💥

🌟 Thrilled to See Climate-AI Pitch Night Come to Life! 🌟 It’s amazing to see the vision for this event gaining momentum, with so many incredible startups already signing up! I’m excited to join the panel and witness bold innovations in Climate Tech and AI. If you’ve got a game-changing idea, we wanna see you. Application form + Registration form in first comment

Let the countdown begin! ⏲️ 🔥 Just 7 days stand between us and the biggest AI Builders event to date. With over 200 registrants (and counting) and 5 inspiring local demos, this is shaping up to be an incredible night. We've already announced Liminal, Lighty AI, and Gravity Foundation. Now it's time to introduce our growth stage speakers... Meet, Magnifi by TIFIN! TIFIN creates companies to improve wealth outcomes. For Denver Startup Week, TIFIN's own, Philips Antoine Gilbert will be demoing Magnifi, their AI for your finance future. In their own words, Magnifi is an AI designed to help you invest — in fact, the world’s first. With Magnifi you can do faster, better research, get help making decisions, plan for a goal, manage your portfolio, and learn while you invest. Magnifi will help you find and buy investments from a marketplace of over 15,000 stocks and funds. And Magnifi can even analyze your existing investments that you hold at other brokerages. Think of Magnifi like a co-pilot for your investing — like Siri or Alexa went to investment school. Register today 👀 https://lnkd.in/g8HrKA2p As always, thank to our partners Matchstick Ventures and Ombud as well as our amazing sponsors, Silicon Valley Bank and Technical Integrity 😤

I suspect as some of the other comments say, there is something wrong with the underlying MS tenant permissions in most cases where organisations have had this issue. Whereas normal users may stray across the odd document they should not have permission to, Copilot will find them all and therefore magnify an underlying issue.

Let the Agents Cook 👨🍳 Injective’s first-ever AI Agent Hackathon, powered by iAgent 2.0 and ElizaOS, and co-hosted by DoraHacks, is officially open for registration! Builders will compete for a chance to win over $100,000 in prizes, grants, funding, and more. With the AI Agent market skyrocketing in popularity, amassing nearly $13B in market cap according to CoinGecko, AI Agents are poised for their “iPhone moment,” ready to leap into the mainstream. Participants will have four weeks to turn ideas into projects. The top projects will advance to Demo Day, where they'll present in front of leading builders and investors in the space. This is your chance to showcase groundbreaking AI-enabled finance, uniquely powered by Injective. Key Dates - Online Registration: Open now (January 21, 2025) - Hackathon Start: February 4, 2025 - Submission Deadline: March 4, 2025 - Project Evaluation Deadline: March 18, 2025 Register today: https://lnkd.in/eTKRmVw5

LLMs like Copilot and Glean leak data as they lack access controls to be able to personalize and shape answers according to a user’s business context, or need-to-know boundaries. In the screenshot, Marc Benioff discusses exactly this problem. I’m glad I made my bet on building a startup to take this challenge on, with my cofounder Sounil Yu, Knostic. Check us out at https://knostic.ai/

Introducing the brains behind the breakthroughs at Hackathon 9.0! 🧠 These researchers are diving deep into the world of data and tech, ensuring every project is built on solid insights and innovative solutions. From exploring new possibilities to crafting cutting-edge strategies, they are the core thinkers making sure each idea is backed by research that counts. 🔍💡 💼 Pawan Kumar - Dristi 📊 Vaibhav Sharma - ConversAI Creators 💡 Jogendar singh - AIcademy 🔎 @Mukesh Sharma - Algorithm Avengers 🖥️ Vaibhav Gehlot - ByteBots Let’s celebrate the research team that’s fueling innovation, pushing boundaries, and shaping the future of tech! 🚀 #ResearchLeadsTheWay #TechExplorers #InnovatorsAtWork #HackathonResearchers #FuelingInnovation #matellio #lifeatmatellio

🎉 Just returned from EnFi, Inc's first-ever company offsite in Portland, Maine - and wow, what an incredible two days it was! We kicked things off at The Roux Institute at Northeastern University (thank you for the beautiful space!) with deep dives into our 2025 strategy and company vision. The brilliant Jeremy Kriegel used Miro to facilitate an engaging session where our team showed remarkable candor in discussing challenging topics. I'm walking away with some of the most complex prioritization decisions of my career ahead - but isn't that what growth is all about? 😅 Day 2 brought our first EnFi, Inc Hackathon, and I'm still blown away by what our teams accomplished in just 5 hours! Each team leveraged AI and our beta "Chat with a Loan" functionality to create innovations that will genuinely impact our business and customers. My team enhanced our chat capabilities with data visualization - imagine pulling historical DSCR, EBITDA, and Income trends directly from financial documents in our data room, and even generating projections for these metrics! (Sorry, customers - this is still in prototype phase 😉) While our engineers were deep in code, I put Anthropic's Claude to work generating financial test datasets and presentation slides. Huge shoutout to James Garfield and Nidhi Nitin Kulkarni- we brought home the win! 🏆 We wrapped up with our year-end holiday party and some (surprisingly competitive) axe throwing. Who knew we had so many hidden lumberjacks in our midst? 🪓 Heading home feeling incredibly energized about EnFi's journey into 2025. The openness, creativity, and sheer talent of this team continue to amaze me! #CompanyCulture #Innovation #FinTech #Startup #AI #Lending

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of excitement for the KamiwazaAI team! We've had the privilege of attending three incredible AI user meetups: the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group (RMAIIG), Boulder Ai Engineers, and AI Tinkerers Austin January Meetup! The energy in these rooms has been nothing short of electric, fueled by engineers eager to learn, entrepreneurs pushing boundaries, and companies adapting to the ever-evolving AI paradigm. A common thread emerging from these events is the question, “What’s an Agent?” Everyone seems to have a different perspective on what it means, how it’s used, and where it’s headed. KamiwazaAI, we’ve had an absolute blast showcasing our LARGE-scale, enterprise-grade agents in action. Our demos have been a hit, highlighting the seemingly impossible becoming a reality—autonomous agents delivering kamiwaza (superhuman) performance at scale, with enterprise-level guardrails ensuring precision and reliability. The awe on people’s faces when they see these agents execute flawlessly, handling real-world challenges with near perfection, has been our fuel as we gear up for the next leg of our journey. Over the next month, we’re hitting the road for a five-city blitz, attending eight more AI events across Seattle, Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Austin, and NYC. One of the highlights we’re most excited about? Hackathons! We'll be partnering with leaders in AI Cloud and SaaS services to spark innovation, enabling hybrid AI solutions that can only emerge from the creative crucible of these hackathons. Stay tuned for updates as we share insights, demos, and stories from the road. We’d love for you to join us on this journey—whether at an event or online—as we continue to push the boundaries of what AI and agents can achieve. Let’s shape the future together! 🚀 #5IR #FifthIndustrialRevolution #AIInnovation #EnterpriseAI #AIAgents #HackathonEnergy #BlitzScaleTour Matthew Wallace Joe Heitzeberg Jeremiah Owyang Dan Murray