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How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicorn
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Artificial intelligence is forcing venture capitalists to rethink how they invest.
Key facts
- Activate AI, the $75 million fund Choudhury launched with co-founder Aakrit Vaish in December, participated in the funding round that catapulted Sarvam, one of India’s best-known AI startups
- These days, the reporter consume between 300 and 500 million tokens a day to get their work
- Choudhury comes armed with experience at Amazon Web Services, the infrastructural backbone of AI startups, and Together Fund, which backs AI-native firms
- Pratyush Choudhury, co-founder of Activate AI, India’s first VC fund dedicated exclusively to AI, is among those embracing that shift
Summary
For decades, investors backed startups by judging founding teams, products, and markets. Pratyush Choudhury, co-founder of Activate AI, India’s first VC fund dedicated exclusively to AI, is among those embracing that shift. To stay ahead, he has built a global network of researchers and developers, and regularly experiments with frontier AI models, spending as much time understanding the technology as evaluating the companies building it. Activate AI, the $75 million fund Choudhury launched with co-founder Aakrit Vaish in December, participated in the funding round that catapulted Sarvam, one of India’s best-known AI startups, to unicorn status with a valuation surpassing $1 billion. Before launching the fund, Choudhury backed vibe-coding platform Emergent, which recently became a unicorn, and Rocket AI, which is reportedly in talks to raise around $50 million.