Lightspeed 错失 AI 早期红利后重塑自我，如今有望押中 Anthropic
After Missing AI’s Early Days, Lightspeed Remade Itself. Now It’s Poised to Score with Anthropic.
Lightspeed Venture Partners 在错失 OpenAI、ElevenLabs 和 Hugging Face 等 AI 早期项目后，于 2023 年 4 月由联席负责人 Ravi Mhatre 和 Bejul Somaia 主导了一场长达七小时的全球合伙人会议，要求所有人清空日程重新思考 AI 战略。如今该机构有望通过 Anthropic 取得回报。
On a Monday morning in April of 2023, Lightspeed Venture Partner’s co-leaders Ravi Mhatre (pictured) and Bejul Somaia directed partners around the world to clear their calendars for the day. Get out of everything, they said. Even board meetings.
ChatGPT had come out a few months earlier and the two executives didn’t believe the firm was primed to meet the moment. Khosla Ventures, a direct rival, had an early stake in OpenAI — Lightspeed did not. It had also missed other breakout AI companies, including ElevenLabs and Hugging Face.
Somaia led the meeting and it went for seven hours. The partners broke into subgroups and reconvened. Those in Europe and Israel stayed on past midnight. The question on the table was, if AI is going to change everything, what would it mean to act as though that were true?
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