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Claire Zau

Partner and AI Lead, GSV Ventures | ASU+GSV Summit

New York, New York

Investor
VC

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $15,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $8,000,000.00

Skills

Leadership
Public Speaking
Event Planning
Project Management
Research
User Interface Design
User Experience Testing
3D Printing

Education

Work Experience

GSV Ventures

2020

  • Partner

    2024

  • Vice President

    2022 - 2024

  • Investment Associate

    2020 - 2022

ASU+GSV Summit

2020

  • Vice President, GSV Ventures

    2022

  • Program Lead

    2020 - 2022

Red & Blue Ventures

2019 - 2020

  • Venture Capital Fellow

    2019 - 2020

Baring Private Equity Asia

2019 - 2019

  • Private Equity Summer Analyst

    2019 - 2019

GoPro

2018 - 2018

  • Business and Legal Development Intern

    2018 - 2018

Julius Baer

2017 - 2017

  • Private Banking Intern

    2017 - 2017

Stanford University VA Medical Center Hoffman Lab

2016 - 2016

  • Laboratory Assistant - Stem Cell Epigenetics Program

    2016 - 2016

Christian Dior Couture

2015 - 2015

  • Summer Internship - Client Development Management

    2015 - 2015

Alibaba Group

2014 - 2014

  • Summer Internship - Corporate Finance

    2014 - 2014

Latest Articles

Substack•Sep. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (09/23/24)

AI in education
AI hardware
OpenAI funding
AI advertising model
AI in film production
Substack•Sep. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (09/13/24)

AI in education
OpenAI's ChatGPT o1 model
AI fundraising and investment
AI-powered coaching
AI tools in recruitment and translation
Substack•Sep. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (09/06/24)

AI in education
OpenAI funding
ChatGPT usage
Llama AI models
SearchGPT
Substack•Aug. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (08/28/24)

AI safety bill in California
Microsoft Phi-3.5 models
Perplexity AI ads
AI voice products in India
a16z Gen AI Consumer apps
Substack•Aug. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (08/19/24)

Google Gemini Live
ChatGPT Voice Mode
AI image generator Imagen 3
OpenAI Project Strawberry
OpenAI team turnover
Substack•Aug. 2024

Observations from the AI Model Olympics

AI Summer
AI model releases
Open Source AI
Small Language Models (SLMs)
Domain-specific AI models
Substack•Aug. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (08/04/24)

Meta's Llama 3.1 AI model
Open-source AI
Meta's AI Studio
OpenAI's SearchGPT
Microsoft and OpenAI competition
Substack•Jul. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (07/17/24)

OpenAI AI model 'Strawberry'
AI health coach
Human-Level AI tracking
Amazon AI shopping assistant
AI bubble
Substack•Jun. 2024

Peeking Inside the AI Black Box

LLMs black box problem
AI hallucinations
AI safety
AI interpretability
OpenAI research
Substack•Jun. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (06/26/24)

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 3.5
AI bubble
Roblox 4D Generative AI
Perplexity AI plagiarism issues
OpenAI's GPT-5
Substack•Jun. 2024

A Guide to Apple Intelligence

Apple's AI strategy
Apple Intelligence
Siri and ChatGPT integration
On-device AI
Privacy in AI
Substack•Jun. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (06/09/24)

AI interpretability
Google AI Overviews
Elon Musk's xAI
AI in meetings
Media and AI
Substack•Jun. 2024

On Building AI Models for Education

AI in education
Google LearnLM
Microsoft Phi-3
OpenAI ChatGPT Edu
education-specific AI models
Substack•May 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (05/24/24)

OpenAI GPT-4o model
ChatGPT updates
Google I/O 2024
AI in Google Search
Scarlett Johansson voice controversy
Substack•May 2024

A Guide to Google I/O 2024

Google I/O 2024
AI integration
LearnLM
AI agents
Project Astra
Substack•May 2024

A Guide to the GPT-4o 'Omni' Model

GPT-4o
multimodal capabilities
real-time voice interactions
instant tutoring
real-time translation
Substack•May 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (05/10/24)

OpenAI search product
Google search competition
Mistral AI valuation
AlphaFold 3 release
OpenAI publisher partnerships
Substack•May 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (05/03/24)

OpenAI search engine rumors
gpt2-chatbot AI model
Claude Team plan and iOS app
Amazon Q AI agent
GitHub Copilot Workspace
Substack•Apr. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (04/25/24)

AI & Education updates
Meta's AI advancements
Perplexity AI company
Microsoft's AI developments
Adobe Firefly Image 3 Model
Substack•Mar. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (03/25/24)

AI in education
Neuralink
GPT-5
Stability AI
Microsoft AI
Substack•Mar. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (03/18/24)

AI in education
OpenAI and ChatGPT
humanoid robots
Google Gemini
autonomous AI software engineer
Substack•Mar. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (03/04/24)

AI in Education
AI Revolution event
OpenAI lawsuit
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
Mistral AI
Substack•Feb. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (02/26/24)

AI in education
Nvidia market cap
Google Gemini controversy
Stable Diffusion 3
AI content licensing
Substack•Feb. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (02/16/24)

AI in education
Text-to-video AI model
OpenAI's Sora
Google's Gemini 1.5 model
Meta's V-JEPA model
Substack•Jan. 2024

GSV's AI News & Updates (01/19/24)

AI in Education
OpenAI GPT Store
ChatGPT
Microsoft Copilot
Samsung AI features
Substack•Jan. 2024

2023 AI in Education Wrapped

Generative AI
AI in education
Large language models
AI funding
AI releases
Substack•Dec. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (12/22/23)

AI in education
AI exhibitions
AI startups
Large language models (LLMs)
AI in enterprise
Substack•Dec. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (12/11/23)

ASU+GSV AIR Show
AI in education
Google Gemini AI model
EU AI Act
OpenAI
Substack•Dec. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (12/04/23)

ASU+GSV AIR Show
AI in education
OpenAI developments
Nvidia and AI chips
Amazon Q generative AI
Substack•Nov. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (11/27/23)

ASU+GSV AIR SHOW
AI in education
OpenAI leadership changes
Nvidia's revenue growth
Inflection-2 LLM
Substack•Nov. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (11/17/23)

ASU+GSV AIR Show
AI in education
OpenAI leadership changes
Microsoft Copilot
Retool's State of AI Report
Substack•Nov. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (11/12/23)

AI in education
ASU+GSV AIR Show
OpenAI developments
AI-powered wearables
Generative AI in game development
Substack•Nov. 2023

The AI Executive Order: An Overview

Biden's AI Executive Order
AI safety and security
algorithmic bias and discrimination
content authentication and watermarking
AI expertise immigration
Substack•Oct. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (10/30/23)

ASU+GSV AIR Show
AI in education
Google and Anthropic funding
OpenAI competition
Google's secret AI tools
Substack•Oct. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (10/20/23)

ASU+GSV AIR Show
AI in education
OpenAI
AI models
AI transparency
Substack•Oct. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (10/16/23)

AI in education
ASU+GSV AIR Show
State of AI Report 2023
Google's AI Search experience
Replit AI capabilities
Substack•Oct. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (10/06/23)

AI in education
ASU+GSV AIR Show
AI revolution
Google Bard
Canva Magic Studio
Substack•Sep. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (09/29/23)

AI in education
ChatGPT updates
Meta AI
Spotify Voice Translation
Microsoft Copilot
Substack•Sep. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (09/22/23)

AI in education
OpenAI advancements
Google AI developments
Generative AI in recruitment
AI-powered learning apps
Substack•Sep. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (09/15/23)

AI in education
Stability AI
Adobe Firefly
Anthropic Claude Pro
Apple conversational AI
Substack•Aug. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (08/29/23)

AI in education
TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
Stability AI's Stable Audio
Adobe Firefly generative AI
Anthropic Claude Pro
Substack•Aug. 2023

Q2 Earnings Roundup - EdTech Generative AI

AI in Education
Duolingo
Powerschool
Coursera
Docebo
Substack•Aug. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (08/16/23)

AI and education
NVIDIA announcements
generative AI
AI language models
AI in education
Substack•Aug. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (08/08/23)

AI in education
YouTube AI video summaries
AI chatbots by Meta
Salesforce Einstein Studio
ChatGPT Example Prompts
Substack•Jul. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (07/21/22)

AI and education
Bard updates
Elon Musk's AI venture
Meta's Llama 2
CM3Leon art-generating model
Substack•Jul. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (07/12/22)

AI in education
Code Interpreter
Google's medical AI chatbot
ChatGPT
OpenAI Superalignment
Substack•Jul. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (07/05/22)

AI and education
ChatGPT
generative AI
automation of work
OpenAI
Substack•Jun. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (06/23/22)

AI in education
Meta Voicebox
robots learning from YouTube
China's Nvidia GPU purchases
AWS generative AI program
Substack•Jun. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (06/16/22)

AI and education
Microsoft and OpenAI partnership
AI in logic and reasoning
Generative AI bias
AI in policing
Substack•Jun. 2023

GSV's AI News & Updates (06/02/22)

AI and education
OpenAI
GPU limitations
Nvidia Avatar Cloud Engine
AI and gaming