Stéphane Renault
🚀📚 Extreme learner working as an analyst for @FABERNOVEL | @insarouen & @UMontreal alumni | #AI, #Knowledge #KM, #search #startups, #learning
The Empty Promise of Data Moats
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative’s been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Network effects have been similarly promoted as a defensi…
Markets Are 10X Bigger Than Ever
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned. Spend on the Internet has grown rapidly as you can now re...
Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
The Rich Barton Playbook for winning markets through Data Content Loops Preface: This is part of a longer private memo analyzing Zillow and its recent shift towards Opendoor’s model. May publish re…
The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News
The current system for delivering news online is broken. Readers and journalists will need to work together to find a new one.
Clearbanc plans to disrupt venture capital with ‘The 20-Min Term Sheet’
The founders of Clearbanc don't want entrepreneurs giving up equity for ad spend.
Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again)
In just a decade, Andreessen Horowitz has backed a bevy of startup blockbusters— Facebook, Instagram, Lyft, Slack—and made just as many Silicon Valley enemies. To stay ahead, it’s taking the unusual…
Humane by Design
Humane by Design is a resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane products through best practices focused on user well-being.
“A progress report on Deepnews.ai”
Deepnews, deepnews.ai, News Quality Scoring, surfacing great quality journalism from the web, fighting fake news and misinformation.
OpenAI can teach algorithms to write articles, win video games & handle…
OpenAI’s Dactyl can handle objects; OpenAI Five defeats humans at Dota 2. Amazingly, they both sprang from the same general-purpose reinforcement learning algorithm.
Implicit Generation and Generalization Methods for Energy-Based Models
We've made progress towards stable and scalable training of energy-based models [http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-06.pdf] (EBMs) resulting in better sample quality and generalization…
DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence
Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
Above the Crowd
(*) Benchmark is/was an investor in companies labeled with the asterisk. In 1776, Adam Smith released his magnum opus, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, in which he…
The Four Fundamental Skills of All Investing
In his book Succeeding, John Reed wrote one of the smartest things I’ve ever read: When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need…
Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to…
Futurist and NYU professor Amy Webb on an impending artificial intelligence catastrophe—and why there’s still hope it can be averted.
Better Language Models and Their Implications
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs…
Humanity + AI: Better Together
This is a written version of a presentation I gave live at the a16z Summit in November 2018. You can watch a video version on YouTube. Skynet is coming for your children -- or is it? In July 2017, …
A 2×2 Matrix to Help You Prioritize the Skills to Learn Right…
And decide which to put off for later.
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
https://youtu.be/TZCU07dno9U Artificial intelligence has not only become an international arms race, competition has now heated up as companies look to adopt machine learning/deep learning at an un…
Compounding Knowledge
The filing cabinet of knowledge stored in Warren Buffet’s brain has helped make him the most successful investor of our time. But it takes much more than reading a lot. In this article, learn how to…
Consumer startups are awesome, and here's what I'm looking for at a16z…
Above: New technology has always captivated consumers! Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? And since I’m focused mostly on consumer…
The Age of Early Divinity
If you’re the sort of person who reads this blog, you’re probably the sort of person who wastes time wondering what we should name the age we are living in, instead of being out there d…
Is it finally time for media companies to adopt a common publishing…
Media companies are each independently trying to solve the same technical problems, rather than focusing on competing with Facebook. Is the usual answer to "buy or build?" changing?
