Going to SF | Sahil & Suhaas

Hey everyone! We missed last week, so this newsletter covers the past two weeks. Most of it was spent in San Francisco, where we caught up with friends and met a bunch of founders.

General Updates on Cerebellum

We filed for incorporation.
We pitched to Pear’s partners. They passed on us, but we learned a lot about the fundraising process.
We now have three design partners. A legal AI company joined the two we already had.
We applied to a16z alpha.
We launched Paradee. A tiny open-source text-to-speech model, distilled from Kokoro-82M down to 8M parameters, that runs on a regular CPU.

Paradee: Distilling a voice model to one-tenth its size The writeup on distilling Kokoro-82M into an 8M-parameter voice model. sahilmahendrakar.com

Paradee-8M on Hugging Face The open-source model weights, with 3.5k+ downloads. huggingface.co

The top of Cerebellum Labs, Inc.'s Delaware certificate of incorporation — Cerebellum Labs, Inc. is official

In New York

On Thursday we went to the Reactor x Google DeepMind World Models Hackathon, and then spent the rest of the week seeing as much art as we could. Suhaas, Barkha, Brian and I went to the Whitney, and on Saturday I painted pumpkins in Sheep Meadow before heading to Brooklyn for a friend’s art show, My Bonds Taste like Cardamom and Blue.

Hackers at round tables in front of a big Google screen — World Models Hackathon

A selfie of four friends in a gallery at the Whitney — Suhaas, Barkha, Brian and me at the Whitney

Picnic blankets covered in paint, brushes and small painted pumpkins — Pumpkin painting in Sheep Meadow

Colorful paintings on a white brick wall under a vaulted ceiling — My Bonds Taste like Cardamom and Blue, my friend's art show

In San Francisco

On Sunday we flew out to SF and spent the week catching up with friends and founders. We took the train down to Stanford to see Ady, worked out of a lot of coffee shops, and had pizza with Ashwin and friends at Tony’s. We met up with founders at YC and Speedrun, and got a sense for the startup community in SF.

Suhaas looking out the window of a train — On the train to Menlo Park

A huge square pizza on a stand in a restaurant booth — Pizza with Ashwin and friends at Tony's

Suhaas working on a laptop next to a latte — Working out of an SF cafe

Back home

We flew back on Friday. On Sunday we went to a friend’s birthday picnic on Randall’s Island, and, in other news, Suhaas ripped his jeans.

Friends gathered under big trees on a lawn by the water at golden hour — Birthday picnic on Randall's Island

Suhaas holding up a pair of jeans in his room — Suhaas ripped his jeans

— Sahil