A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

The AI “stack” has emerged with Large Language Models and other important models (like audio, imagery, video, etc) operating in the cloud with well-documented and supported APIs that are available to developers to build on. Let’s start with Artificial intelligence (AI) which was the big event in 2023. This is a big deal.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 4, 2025

ChatGPT might call a web search tool to read a blog post I’d like to summarized. Gemini might call a tool to find the latest stock price of the most recent IPO I’ve been following. I still follow the same research sequence, but now Gemini & ChatGPT handle the summarization.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 8, 2025

Its performance on benchmarks is within a few points of models like OpenAI o3 and o4-mini, DeepSeek R1 , Google Gemini 2.5 APIs Various Qwen3 models are available as an API through a number of services, including Alibaba Cloud Model Studio , OpenRouter , and Lambda. It has a 128K token context length.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Although Copilot supports OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini, Cursor natively supports more models, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and DeepSeek, offering more flexibility. (In In both, you get to choose the model you work with—and you can even use custom API keys to access preferred models for some features.)

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

Turbo through the company’s API can make the model better follow specific instructions. Most notably, fine-tuning enables OpenAI customers to shorten text prompts to speed up API calls and cut costs. We’re very excited for the impact they’ll have here at OpenAI,” OpenAI wrote in a brief post published to its official blog.

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