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HF0 (Hacker Fellowship Zero) is a startup accelerator that offers 12-week stays to batches of fellows from 10 different startups. Their experience, which culminates in Demo Day, should be his most productive three months of their lives. One of the HF0 founders, Dave Fontenot, was inspired by his two years in a convent in his twenties. Although life in a monastery was ascetic in material terms, he found monastic life to be luxurious in that it gave its inhabitants the freedom to focus on what really mattered. . And this year, at the Fellows’ home, San Francisco’s Archbishop’s Palace, nearly everyone is convent-like and focused on artificial intelligence, the city’s newest religion.
In 2021, when Fontenot and his two co-founders, Emily Liu and Evan Stitos Clayton, launched Accelerator, the gospel of AI had not yet taken hold. Even a year ago, when HF0 hosted an army of researchers in a Miami hotel, six of his eight representative companies were cryptocurrency startups. But in his San Francisco mansion, eight of the 10 companies in the first batch of HF0 this year were working on AI-based apps.
It should come as no surprise that generative AI has nearly replaced cryptocurrencies in the eyes of founders and venture capitalists. When OpenAI released ChatGPT late last year, at a time when the collapse of the cryptocurrency and technology markets had left many investors and would-be entrepreneurs adrift without knowing where to put their money and time, ChatGPT was a new venture. caused a boom. Suddenly, users around the world began to realize that AI could now answer verbal questions with amazing human-like fluency. “Large-scale language models have been around for a long time, but their use has been limited,” says Robert Nishihara, co-founder of his machine learning infrastructure startup Anyscale. “But there’s a breaking point where they become dramatically more useful, and I think we’re past that now.”
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