CM Weekly: CoPilots Growth, General vs Specific, How to Pitch VCs

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Written by Chris McCann, General Partner @ Race Capital. More about me.

??? Interesting Reads

• GitHub Co-Pilot now has 1.8 million paid subscribers, growing 35% quarter over quarter.?
• Within AI there is a tension between generalized platforms and vertical specific applications that solve specific use-cases.
• It seems like large language models are reaching a plateau of how much quality it can gain through becoming ever larger.
• Amazon grew their streaming service Prime Video to over 200 million monthly viewers.?
• Mark Zuckerberg is quite skeptical of the leap to AGI and does not believe the model is the end product (hence Meta open sourcing Llama 3).
• A fantastic deck on how to pitch VC’s and aligning your story to your deck (and all of your other materials).

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