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Really fascinating to watch all the model companies make moves in applications and products. Anthropic's Claude Code is another move by a model company into the app layer. Market forces are making the model layer essentially "free" and the value capture will be in apps.

Releases by DeepSeek this week bring to light what many US based inference providers were figuring out: getting remarkable efficiency from open source models to match inference demand curves. It's further enabling of the application layer as inference becomes more efficient.

Excited to share that Numeral has raised an $18M Series A led by Benchmark! We started Numeral two years ago to solve the nightmare that is sales tax for growing ecommerce brands. Simply put – sales tax was the last thing I wanted to think about when scaling my brands.

Benchmark is leading an $18M round in sales tax startup Numeral. Comes after Avalara, an older player in the space, went was taken private at an $8.4 billion valuation. axios.com/pro/fintech-de…

🔥 Fireworks AI matches DeepSeek API pricing 🔥 After significant performance optimization in the past 2 months, we are excited to pass our efficiency improvement back to our users. We launched two additional Deepseek R1 tiers to enhance current tier: 1. base:

Legora has officially launched in the U.S. with our flagship office in New York City and our first American partner, @Goodwin. Collaborative AI for lawyers has made it across the Atlantic. Read more: legora.com/blog/legora-la…

With OpenAI's announcement of an upcoming open weights model and all of the exciting recent releases in the open source community, the bar for Llama 4 from Meta is really high. I hope they release something great.

Excited for llama 4. It's terrific for the ecosystem that more models are available with open weights. However, Meta sticking with the llama community license that excludes companies with more than 700M MAUs seems counter productive to building the largest possible community.

I'm excited to share that Modern Treasury now supports global payouts via stablecoins, offering companies a faster + more efficient way to move money worldwide. Powered by our partner, brale, you can make payouts globally using stablecoins across major blockchain networks.

The man is too humble to say it but everything victor lazarte touches turns to gold. As a Founder, he scaled Wildlife Studios to 4B+ downloads. Bootstrapped. As an angel, he was the first ever investor in Brex (latest valuation $12.3BN) As a VC with Benchmark he led rounds

At first, it was one filing, then ten filings, and then it’s this. Give me a guess! How many sales tax filings do you think we've done? Feeling extremely proud of our team. In the early days, Numeral was essentially an Excel file. Today, we’ve got some serious tech happening

We raised a $24.5M Series A led by Benchmark, bringing total funding to $33M!🚀 Last year we set out to define the state of the art in document processing. Today, companies like Vanta, Airtable, and ScaleAI trust Reducto to ingest hundreds of millions of documents. (1/7)

Update on me: My new role at Benchmark

Modern Treasury AI launches today! The AI Agent is purpose-built to understand payments across rails and bank integrations, making our expertise accessible to more users. The Workspace brings the tools, teams, and Agent together—delivering AI-powered monitoring, task

congrats to Reducto 's $24.5M Series A. this is a story on how Adit and Raunak Chowdhuri found their startup idea and how launching during YC got them to land a large fortune 25 contract 1/7

Long-time listener, first-time caller! I had a blast with Turner Novak 🍌🧢 on The Peel. Growth marketing, t-shirts, custom jewelry, hiring, sales tax, and AI. We covered a lot! 🍌 And we talked about how all of the above ultimately led us to start Numeral, get into

Bezi is now publicly available. An AI tool designed specifically for game engines, Bezi uses real-time context of your project - codebase, assets, scene graph - to provide tailored development assistance.

Thrilled to have Zach join Transfer to talk new payment rails and stablecoins this Thursday!

Today we’re launching Stablecoin Payment Accounts (SPAs). SPAs enable companies moving money on behalf of others to send and receive USD over traditional rails and stablecoin networks, offering a flexible alternative to traditional FBO setups.

Our site and brand is getting a much needed refresh. While Reducto is fundamentally infrastructure software, we’ve always believed the experience of using it should feel intuitive, thoughtful, and easy to grasp—and now our site reflects that. Go check it out for yourself at