We're on a mission to bring people the knowledge they need to make a difference in the world. Glean was founded by a seasoned team of former Google search and Facebook engineers, who wondered why we don't have an easier way of finding what we need at work. In our personal lives, we have tools to help us find pretty much whatever we need. Why don't we have that at work? And that was the beginning of Glean.

"We believe that any company should be able to develop reliable operational ML applications and easily adopt real-time capabilities no matter the use case at hand or the engineering resources on staff. This new funding will help us further build and strengthen both Tecton's feature platform for ML and the Feast open source feature store, enabling organizations of all sizes to build and deploy automated ML into live, customer-facing applications and business processes, quickly and at scale," said Mike Del Balso, co-founder and CEO of Tecton. Tecton was founded by the creators of Uber's Michelangelo platform to make world-class ML accessible to every company. Tecton is a fully-managed ML feature platform that orchestrates the complete lifecycle of features, from transformation to online serving, with enterprise-grade SLAs. The platform enables ML engineers and data scientists to automate the transformation of raw data, generate training data sets and serve features for online inference at scale.

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) started its incubator up two years ago, helping launch companies like Xnor.ai, Blue Canoe, and WellSaidLabs. Their success has attracted funding from not just local Seattle VC outfit Madrona, but Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Two Sigma as well, resulting in a new $10M fund that should help keep the lights on. The AI2 Incubator, led by Jacob Colker since its inception in 2017, has focused on launching a handful of companies every year that in some way leverage a serious AI advantage. Blue Canoe, for instance, does natural language processing with a focus on accent modification; Xnor.ai is working on ultra-low-power implementations of machine learning algorithms, and was just acquired yesterday by Apple for a reported $200M. Apple buys edge-based AI startup Xnor.ai for a reported $200M "We think the next generation of so called AI-first companies are going to have to graduate into building long term, successful businesses that start with an AI edge," said the program's new managing director, Bryan Hale.

I've been reading almost traditional Kleiner Perkins' annual internet trends report delivered by Mary Meeker at Code 2018. Almost 300 slides presentation covers everything you can imaging related to internet, mobile platforms, consumer applications, enterprise, etc. I highly recommend you to spend time and at least skim through the information of the presentation. Navigate to Full video and transcript: Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker at Code 2018 and Mary Meeker's 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis. Consumer like apps are changing enterprise computing. Check these slides to get an idea.

At age 25, Anjney Midha has a stronger resume than some people twice his age. Before graduating from Stanford, he joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He led the firm's investment in Magic Leap, the mysterious and much-hyped augmented reality company. Then he ditched venture capital to pursue a dream that had followed him from a technology-free young adulthood on a bird sanctuary in India, to the hyper-connected streets of Singapore, to his days at Stanford. That dream was to share his world--more than he could show in a photo, better than what he could convey with words--with the family and friends he'd left in India.