venture @felicis SF based, ATL native free time // đź“·: bit.ly/3HcP9fo

Joined April 2011
34 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
22 Oct 2024
VCs as rappers – no explainers: Sequoia: Jay-Z Greylock: Future Felicis: Gunna Amplify: Young Thug Benchmark: Kendrick Index: Skepta Lux: Tyler the Creator Tiger: Kanye Khosla: Eminem a16z: Drake
128
29
712
199,717
Tobi Coker retweeted
We're thrilled to announce that Stainless is joining @AnthropicAI! Stainless was founded to make software better for everyone, and we're honored to continue that mission on the Anthropic team. Check out the announcement blog post for more: stainless.com/blog/stainless…
24
30
332
150,220
Congrats to the @StainlessAPI team on the acquisition by Anthropic! It took six customer intros and two months to get @RattrayAlex to take a meeting with us — but from that first 25-minute conversation in a cramped NYC office, the vision for API infrastructure was obvious. Excited to have partnered with Alex, @laurenmhreeder, @JenniferHli, @calvinfo, and team. Huge milestone. cc: @felicis anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
1
1
47
78,130
Tobi Coker retweeted
May 18
We backed @StainlessAPI because @RattrayAlex believed SDKs deserved the same craft as the APIs they wrap. Anthropic believed it too. They've powered every official Claude SDK since day one. Congrats to the Stainless team on joining @AnthropicAI!
Anthropic is acquiring @stainlessapi, an SDK and MCP server platform that has powered every Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. Read more: anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
1
5
847
Tobi Coker retweeted
Anthropic is acquiring @stainlessapi, an SDK and MCP server platform that has powered every Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. Read more: anthropic.com/news/anthropic…
350
288
3,842
3,521,888
The @Felicis Forecast: the nine themes that we think will define what’s coming next. They don’t fit neatly into categories, but start to pop up everywhere once you notice them. x.com/felicis/status/2056414…

May 18
1/ Today we launch the @Felicis Forecast. It's our map of the changes that defy neat categorization but matter most to what’s next. Where AI’s potential cuts across industries to collide with consumer, organizational, and socio-economic fault lines. Where the old structures have ruptured, and new ones are just coming into view. Because even to people like us – generalists who’ve spent the past 20 years studying change – this moment feels different. Everything’s up for grabs. Rules, tidy bell curves, and comfortable patterns no longer apply. So instead of following patterns, we forecast: 9 themes we just can’t get out of our heads, that seem to pop up everywhere once you notice them. ordnl.link/Vyjrzep
122
AI shipped to prod before its infra was built — first software wave that's done that. We surveyed 23 eng leaders. 70% doubled inference spend in 6 months. Half ship agents as core product. Most monitor it on home-built Grafana. Building primitives? Reach out. felicis.com/blog/the-ai-stac…
1
1
24
104,849
Had a great chat with Harry Kim from @nvidia , @philipkiely from @baseten , and Arya Asemanfar from @SierraPlatform, for a salon dinner on long-running agents and inference. We were joined by 20 technical leaders from @Replit , @nvidia , @hippocraticai , @PrimeIntellect , @anyscalecompute , @togethercompute, @thinkymachines, @netflix , @tryramp , @MemGPT and more. Consistent themes that emerged through several conversations: - Nobody owns the agent harness yet. App teams are building it by default, inference platforms want to absorb it from below. Sentiment pointed to the application layer as its home — though some platforms are getting close. - Evals are the precondition for everything else — model right-sizing, routing decisions, fine-tuning confidence. Nothing off the shelf is specific or good enough to work generally. Everyone is handling it in-house. - The next wave for inference is real-time: video, audio, multimodal. Beyond that, inference-time compute and observability are the areas people are focused on. - VR as a longer-term area of interest, when the technology can serve the capabilities consumers actually need. Super energizing to chop it up with some of the best in the business! cc @felicis
2
20
78,278
Tobi Coker retweeted
Inference is served. Thank you @tecoker @felicis for inviting me out to join for dinner and a panel on the future of inference.
2
3
47
4,478
Tobi Coker retweeted
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pa…
515
5,737
26,104
5,616,296
Tobi Coker retweeted
We hosted Prof. Alyosha Efros (UC Berkeley) at @SkildAI! He didn't believe that robots could actually cook eggs reliably. :) Tested back-to-back 5times without fail! One batch of scrambled eggs every ~2.5mins nonstop. The same model assembles a GPU on a server rack too.
38
157
1,335
172,364
Tobi Coker retweeted
Grateful to be working with @schwarzjn_ and his team at Thomson Reuters to help leverage their proprietary data to mid-train the world's best legal models! Mid-training on domain specific data can massively improve specialized performance without sacrificing general capabilities. And because the mid-trained model understands the domain better, post-training becomes far more effective. Check out our case study linked below to learn more. And if you want to leverage your own proprietary data to build strong, domain specific models where accuracy and reliability are key, please reach out to us @datologyai!
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Thomson Reuters, a collaboration focused on unlocking the full potential of proprietary data to build the next generation of domain-specific AI. By applying DatologyAI’s data curation pipeline for legal domain adaptation mid-training, the results were clear: - 5% improvement on legal benchmarks and 2.5% on general-purpose evaluations after mid-training - >2.5x amplification in post-training gains on Thomson Reuters’ private legal evals - Achieved with <1% of the original pre-training token budget These gains demonstrate that better data doesn’t just improve models, but multiplies the effectiveness of everything built on top of them. As @schwarzjn_ , Head of AI Research at Thomson Reuters, put it: “DatologyAI delivered clear, measurable improvements across both public and our proprietary legal evaluations…demonstrating the strength and generalizability of their approach.” This partnership shows what’s possible when proprietary data and advanced data curation come together — not just incremental gains, but compounding advantages across the entire model lifecycle. We’re excited to continue building with Thomson Reuters to push the boundaries of domain AI. #AI #MachineLearning #LegalTech #DataCuration #Partnerships
2
9
39
2,891
spent the last few weeks in the weeds asking AI engineers & CTOs on how they're actually building in 2026 – inference spend, GPU infra, model strategy, async workloads for @felicis' first AI dev survey. some of the results are... not what we expected 👀 who should we be talking to?
1
9
1,415
We are putting together an event on inference and always on agents with leaders from @nvidia, @CrusoeAI, and @SierraPlatform. Who should we invite?
1
11
1,315
Tobi Coker retweeted
Join us in recognizing Delta's Rising Investors of 2026! 🎉 Congrats to the investors our community nominated as truly exceptional at the early stage. Angels, emerging fund managers, and established names alike, recognized for their track records, the depth of their writing, and their presence in the technical community. These are the people who cut through the noise, back the right companies early, and show up as real partners to the founders they work with. deltainstitutes.org/rising-i…
9
13
126
61,712
Tobi Coker retweeted
Two things I'm particularly proud of here: 1. The pretraining data are derived entirely from publicly-available tokens. 2. No closed-source models were used in any part of the pretraining data curation pipeline.
Today we're releasing Trinity-Large-Thinking. Available now on the Arcee API, with open weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. We built it for developers and enterprises that want models they can inspect, post-train, host, distill, and own.
14
29
397
26,618
Tobi Coker retweeted
Mar 26
Proud to see 15 @Felicis portfolio companies named to @FastCompany's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026. ordnl.link/OuYhwvF
1
17
784
Tobi Coker retweeted
🏆 What an honor! @CellinoBio has been named one of @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies of 2026! A meaningful milestone that reflects our team’s work to advance personalized #celltherapies at scale. Read more about #FCMostInnovative here: fastcompany.com/most-innovat…
1
2
9
4,713