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Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models
Night Owl Network
Bubble
United States
Model OS
Nalana
Sleep
Paradigm Outreach
Gorest
Humanest
Courage Tees
Entrepreneurship
Aximon
Project Play
Adaptive Port-Access Shirts
Theventures
Immuny.ai
Allergies
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A series featuring student entrepreneurs and new grads turning ideas, side into real ventures. www.18-vc.com/

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Everyone talks to LLMs like they're people. Professor Robin Jia, who has been studying them since before ChatGPT existed, says that's the wrong picture: inside, an LLM works more like a democratic society, where parts of the model vote, disagree and ... more

Katie VanArnam was diagnosed with lymphoma at eight. On the night of her first chemo session, her mom Casey Glazer cut open an old T-shirt and sewed Velcro over the port. Thirteen years later, that shirt is Courage Tees, and it just took first prize ... more

A kid learns hide-and-seek in one round. AI needed hundreds of millions of tries. Prof. Saty Raghavachary spent 16 years building the effects tools behind DreamWorks films, and he thinks that gap tells you exactly where AI is headed and where it isn'... more

Every music startup is racing to bolt on AI. Kayla and Rila are betting on a pocket-sized synthesizer with none — a piece of hardware that gets total beginners playing their favorite song in about 15 minutes.

On Episode 22 of 18VC, Philip and David ... more

More than 44% of a researcher's time isn't spent on research; it goes to chasing grants and paperwork. USC professor Mayank Kejriwal got frustrated enough to build GRAIL, an AI-agent platform that helps scientists find, write, and manage grants, with... more

A USC freshman is on his third startup, and this one wants your personal AI agent talking to everyone else's. No feed, no followers, no ads. Just agents making the introductions humans used to make themselves.

On this episode of the 18VC podcast, ho... more

Every mixer in SF ends by 6 PM, but the most committed builders are just getting started. Cheyoung Ahn and Bekhruz Malikov built the Night Owl Network for them: a late-night community that planned for 50 people and pulled 120+ signups in two weeks.

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He failed ten startups before turning 19. Six weeks into his eleventh, he has a $250K pipeline, a $1B client, and a prediction: software will be dead in two years.

On Episode 18 of 18VC, we sit down with Yurii Tovarnytskyi, co-founder & CTO of Aximo... more

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Robin Jia
Computer science professor at USC Viterbi and head of the ALLEGRO Lab
USC Viterbi
Episode: AI Is a Democracy, Not a Person: USC Prof. Robin Jia on AI Interpretability, Policy & Risk | Ep. 25
Katie VanArnam
Cancer survivor and co-founder of Courage Tees
Courage Tees
Episode: Ep #24 With Katie and Casey @ Courage Tees: A Cancer Survivor’s Shirts That Restore Dignity in Treatment
Casey Glazer
Courage Tees co-founder and mother of Katie VanArnam
Courage Tees
Episode: Ep #24 With Katie and Casey @ Courage Tees: A Cancer Survivor’s Shirts That Restore Dignity in Treatment
Saty Raghavachary
USC Viterbi computer science professor and former DreamWorks R&D researcher
USC Viterbi
Episode: Ep # 23 USC Prof. Saty on AI and embodied intelligence: The Path to AGI Isn’t Code, It’s Neurons.
Mayank Kejriwal
Professor at USC Viterbi and co-founder/CEO of Grail
Grail; University of Southern California
Episode: Ep #21 With Mayank Kejriwal @ GRAIL: 44% of Research Time Is Paperwork. He's Building AI Agents to Kill It.
Zion Zhang
Founder of Humanest
Humanest
Episode: Ep # 20 With Zion Zhang @ Humanest: His AI Agent Talks to Yours
Yurii Tovarnytskyi
CDO and co-founder of Aximon
Aximon
Episode: Ep #18 With Yurii Tovarnytskyi: 10 Failed Startups by 19. Now He's Automating $1B Real Estate Deals
Evan Buhler
GP and founder of Talok Capital
Talok Capital
Episode: 18VC Podcast Ep #17 With Evan Buhler @ Talok Capital: Creativity, Consciousness, Culture, and AI for Human Flourishing
Abdi Sherif
Program manager of the gBETA Inland Empire accelerator at Generator
Generator / gBETA Inland Empire
Episode: Ep #16 With Abdi Sheif @ gBETA: 100x in 18 Months, a $5M Fund at HBS – Now He Backs Founders VCs Never Visit

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AI Is a Democracy, Not a Person: USC Prof. Robin Jia on AI Interpretability, Policy & Risk | Ep. 25
Q: Can a model know when it's wrong? And if it does, why doesn't it tell us?
Jia explains that a model may identify an answer as wrong when asked to review it separately, yet fail to recognize the problem while generating it. He says separate model copies or similar systems could help audit outputs.
AI Is a Democracy, Not a Person: USC Prof. Robin Jia on AI Interpretability, Policy & Risk | Ep. 25
Q: How much have researchers been opening up the black box so far? Do we already know what's happening inside?
Jia says models are comparatively accessible to study because researchers can inspect their computations and run experiments. Interpretability work can identify internal representations and test how changing them affects outputs.
Ep #24 With Katie and Casey @ Courage Tees: A Cancer Survivor’s Shirts That Restore Dignity in Treatment
Q: Why was there ever a consideration to make Courage Tees a non-profit organization versus, you know, the for-profit?
Katie says the business model has allowed hospitals and organizations to buy shirts and give them to patients, which has proved an effective way to distribute them. The founders are also considering future ways to help people access shirts when they cannot afford them.
Ep #24 With Katie and Casey @ Courage Tees: A Cancer Survivor’s Shirts That Restore Dignity in Treatment
Q: Could you describe what a chest port would be for somebody who's never seen or been around cancer patients?
Katie explains that a chest port is surgically placed and connected to a large vein, providing long-term access for medication, fluids, and blood work. It can be safer than repeatedly using smaller arm veins for chemotherapy.
Ep # 23 USC Prof. Saty on AI and embodied intelligence: The Path to AGI Isn’t Code, It’s Neurons.
Q: What does the path to a true AGI look like if LLMs are not the answer?
He suggests that intelligence comparable to human intelligence may require biological principles or materials, pointing to organoid intelligence, while arguing that robots running LLMs remain limited by their lack of continuous physical experience.

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What is 18VC Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A brisk, business-focused series that spotlights student founders and new grads turning ideas into ventures. Episodes foreground early-stage startups, hands-on product development, and practical go-to-market tactics, often pairing technical founders with investors or accelerator organizers. Expect candid origin stories, real-world challenges, and practical frameworks for building, funding, and scaling ventures in technology, consumer brands, and AI-enabled businesses. A notable pattern is the strong emphasis on community, speed of execution, and regional or university-based ecosystems, making it valuable for aspiring founders, researchers, and early-career operators exploring how to turn concepts into operational companies while navigating ... more

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