We are doubling down on Seattle. Today, AI2 Incubator is becoming AI House (aihouse.vc). We have a new name, a stronger team, and a clearer focus: helping build the next generation of AI companies from Seattle.

AI2 Incubator Rebrands to AI House, Names Sri Chandrasekar Managing Director For Sri Chandrasekar, so much of success in venture capital comes down to being in the right place at the right time. And as he steps into a new role as a managing director at AI House Incubator, he believes the stars are aligned.

The future of software, how to stay defensible, and embracing the chaos

What's actually working in go-to-market?

I'm excited to share that Taylor is joining AI House as Director of Community and Programming. Taylor is leaving his role as editor of GeekWire, where he spent more than 13 years covering the people, companies, and ideas that define Pacific Northwest tech, to help us take AI House to the next level.

2025, the year of AI agents, or the year of inflated agentic expectation? Dive into this Deep Research report with me.

Seattle’s AI scene has been on display during AI Week, and today we’re excited to announce Google Cloud and JP Morgan Chase as official sponsors and deep-integration partners of AI House.

Launching Harmonious AI. How to go from picking an idea to raising seed in 2024.

2024 will be a tough year for GenAI as we struggle to teach LLMs to learn from mistakes. AI development will be accessible to a broader audience.

The grand challenge is to create AI that is capable of voiceover, to approach the infinitely rich, nuanced, and expressive qualities of human spoken communication. Are we ready?

Review of AI progress 6 months after ChatGPT's release. We discuss agents, community models, AI infra/tooling, and AI safety.

We survey opportunities for startups that want to use foundation models and their generative capabilities: conversational programming, AI assistants, and foundation model operations.

The AI2 Incubator added a world-renown AI expert and entrepreneur as a technical director, while our portfolio companies raised a total of $35M in funding this summer.

We review tools that are handy for founders building AI-first companies. AI-powered note taking tool Flowdex was launched, and public speaking coach Yoodli is open for everyone.

Open sourced: GPT-J, Bloom, PolyCoder. Also: Vespa search engine and few shot entity extraction with Cohere.

Measure Labs, Birch, and Augment raised seed rounds. Updates on foundation models from Big Tech.

WhyLabs, Lexion, and WellSaid Labs raised A rounds. Why foundation models need to be large.

Yoodli coming out of stealth, TheSequence profiling Whylabs, and a brief history of large language models. Will the future of AI be task-centric?

At the intersection of AI and the life sciences: Ozette and Modulus. The Transformers effect.

Profiling of alumni Emad Elwany and Greg Finak by TheSequence. Funding rounds announced in August, highlighting trends around computer vision, edge AI, conversational tech, remote health, therapeutics, Covid-19 pandemic adaptation, and more.

Michael Carlon joined the incubator team, Modulus Therapeutics' seed round, and WellSaid's series A. Modeling with limited labeled data, neural networks gaining vs tree-based methods, and ML tools and infrastructure.