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"To me, what beautiful for a chip means is that it does exactly what it was designed to do and no more and no less."

Outset Capital portfolio founders Mike and Reiner of MatX on what it takes to build the ultimate chip specialized for LLMs — interviewed on Bloomberg's Odd Lots, by Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway.

Take a listen: https://lnkd.in/eSsWCkBw

I really enjoyed talking about the process and business of semiconductor design with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal on the Odd Lots podcast. Joe and Tracy were wonderful hosts: They put me at ease and guided the conversation with the lightest of touch.

We talked about what doing semiconductor design is like, why LLMs are hungry for as many FLOPS/$ as they can get, how MatX can provide that, and how NVIDIA's moat might be bridged. I particularly liked that Reiner Pope got to communicate some of the sense of beauty that I also feel about good design.

Helping lead MatX's engineering team (and meeting with our customers) is a humbling honor: It's talking with people who are the world experts in what we're chatting about. Being on Odd Lots was talking with grandmasters at conversation.

I am so excited to announce that Hedra has raised a 10 million dollar seed round thanks to Index Ventures, A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN, and Abstract Ventures!

Charlie Fink covered our launch/fundraise for Forbes here:
https://lnkd.in/gmSi_kDg

I left my PhD at Stanford ~1 year ago and spent the time since with my friend and co-founder Alexander Bergman building an amazing team of researchers, designers, and engineers.

It’s been an intense and crazy year — nothing in my life (truly) prepared me for the challenges of building a company from 0. I learned many hard lessons, was humbled repeatedly, and most importantly forged some deep friendships along the way (#sr002).

It all culminated with the launch of our research preview in late June, which saw more than 350k users generate millions of videos. We are very excited by the market validation of our product and model — we’re even more excited to build what’s next.

We couldn’t have done it without the support of amazing investors and operators who started our journey. 

Catherine Wu, Shardul Shah and the team at Index Ventures. I still remember being struck by the Cat’s deep technical knowledge and pan-sector knowledge about the space. She’s been an amazing thought partner and friend.

Troy Kirwin and Jonathan Lai, and Andrew Chen with the amazing the rest of the team at A16Z GAMES. Everyone should apply to A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN, you’ll learn a ton, meet some amazing founders, and get cheat codes to avoid making some hard early mistakes. Also the a16z talent team is amazing!

David Kwon and Ramtin N. at Abstract Ventures. I’ve called David way too many times over the last year. For all founders, it’s amazing to have a seed focused investor on your cap table — David and the Abstract team are the best. DM me if you want a warm intro.

Outset Capital, where Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht were my first check-in, and have built an amazing community to support AI founders.

And to our amazing angel investors! 

Jon Barron, Robyn Peterson, Nikhila Ravi, Kevin Hartz, Bilawal Sidhu, Gregory Mark, David Benhaim and John Rogovin. We're so happy to have you along with us for this journey!

We're hiring 2 frontend developers and 1 backend/ML engineer at Hedra

Must be in the US and willing to relocate to SF or NY 

For frontend roles:

* Experience working fullstack with generative image (long shot but video would be great) models
* Experience building image or video creation tools
* Proficient in typescript/react
* Ideally fullstack

For MLE:

* Experience building and serving ML models on AWS infra
* Ideally experienced in optimizing/profiling models
* We can throw a repo at you, you can make it work




If either of these roles sound interesting to you, email michael@hedra.com

Please circulate and give recs :)

We are hiring multiple roles at Reflex!

If you are an infrastructure engineer, strong generalist software engineer, or developer advocate we'd love to hear from you!

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