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USV (@usv) is building an AI operating system to support their investment team. But it’s not what you think: It’s a constellation of AI tools that captures and synthesizes the firm's collective wisdom. It’s evolving every day, and Matt Cynamon (@mattcynamon) is the mad scientist in charge. Matt calls himself a “regular” at USV, and by that he means he’s USV’s AI guy. He’s an inherently curious person with a professional obligation to tinker with AI, and what he builds is now deeply embedded into the way USV runs, like: - The Librarian (@usvlibrarian)—a chatbot trained on around 15,000 articles from the USV blog—that partners can use to can use to refer back to their writing easily - Portfolio Tracker, a GPT that analyzes the investments made by the firm - Meeting Notes, a tool that makes it possible for team members to interact with meetings I sat down with Matt to talk about how AI is enabling him to bring his ideas to life as a generalist and exchange notes on all the other AI projects he has in the pipeline at USV. We even demo an art project at USV’s office called The Dream Machine—which does automatic transcription of conversation and turns it into dream-like AI image generations, all in realtime. This is a must-watch for anyone who wants to see how tinkering can help you push the boundaries of what’s possible in AI today. Watch below! -- Timestamps: Introduction: 00:00:52 How Matt became in charge of everything AI at USV: 00:01:56 How AI empowers generalists to be creators: 00:06:22 The Librarian, a chatbot trained on everything USV has published: 00:10:41 Portfolio Tracker, an AI tool to track USV’s investments: 00:21:09 The AI projects that Matt has in the pipeline at USV: 00:27:21 Meeting Notes, USV’s AI note-taking tool: 00:34:33 Prompting AI to generate a post for USV’s X handle: 00:44:57 Why it’s important to diversify ownership over data: 01:00:20 The Dream Machine, AI that generates images from conversations: 01:03:20

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