Altera

Welcome to Altera, Shankha! Shankha joins Altera after completing a PhD at MIT where he worked on graph algorithms in sub-linear models of computation. In a past life, he dabbled in competitive programming and represented India as a two time IOI medalist. Outside the world of bits and algorithms, Shankha occasionally engages in wacky mechanical projects like designing and building a roller coaster

Read more about how we're working with OpenAI to solve the biggest problem facing agents -- long term progression. https://lnkd.in/e5QVRxmw

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We gave our agents access to Google Sheets and they are collaborating better and better in Minecraft. Turns out productivity tools are good for agents too. https://lnkd.in/e_CdWBtB

We gave our agents access to google docs and it's starting to make them better at Minecraft. They are taking notes on everyone's accomplishments and collaborating to update their goals from there.

Welcome to the team Dr. Peter Wang! Peter joins us as our Founding Scientist after working as a post-doctoral fellow in Karl Deisseroth’s lab at Stanford and as an AI resident at Google X. He holds a PhD in Neurobiology from Columbia University where he was advised by Nobel laureate Richard Axel. Peter will be making our agents more human than ever. Welcome aboard!

Our investment partner Amber Atherton discussing Altera’s digital human beings on Bloomberg. “It’s very rare as an investor you get to witness a paradigm shift in terms of how humans will interact with computers — AI is not replacing humans, it’s augmenting humans and bringing a new dimension of fun into so many interactions.”

Last Monday our SPEEDRUN002 founders presented to >400 investors. They were there to see the amazing progress made in ~10 weeks. Just a few examples: 🍟 Travis Chen + Eric Berman built + launched Lil Snack, and landed partnerships with BuzzFeed & Amazon Prime Gaming. ⛏️ Nico Christie + Robert Yang + Shuying Luo from Altera went viral on Reddit with a video of their Minecraft bot, then built a model that outperformed Voyager - the model made by the researchers running NVIDIA's autonomous agents lab. 🧒 Jeff Wu + Kieran Donovan + Julian Corbett and the k-ID team were profiled in TechCrunch for their innovative solutions in the identity space. ... there were 34 more teams, so I can't profile them all here - suffice to say it's been inspiring to watch these teams in action. 💰 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 - 𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝟬𝟬𝟯 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 💰 Applications open for SPEEDRUN003 next week. This time we're upping the ante to $750k, and we intend to fund another ~40 teams. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: - The timing is perfect for founding - There's more talent available to teams - Incumbents are struggling and restructuring - And broad market changes in gaming mean opportunity for upstarts So if you want to... --> Make the game of your dreams --> Build tech or tools for studios, engineers, artists --> Design "out-of-game" experiences for gamers --> And do it all in your own vision... Then you should apply to SPEEDRUN when applications open next Monday: 🔗 https://bit.ly/48vRa36 🔗

It was an honor to present the future of digital human beings at GDC. Thank you to the incredible team at A16Z GAMES for putting a world class event and audience together. The team is growing. Join us!