@ibab: I sat down with Hemant in his garden to discuss River AI's vision and our bets for how to democratize control of the AI…
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Igor (ibab) interviews Hemant Taneja about River AI's $1.1B funding round and its vision for open-weight AI models that individuals can train and control.
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I sat down with Hemant in his garden to discuss River AI’s vision and our bets for how to democratize control of the AI systems we use every day.
General Catalyst (@generalcatalyst): .@river_ai_inc has a new vision for personal AI. We co-led River’s $1.1B funding round because we believe in @ibab’s ambition to build open-weight models that individuals can train and improve continuously.
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