Last week I dug into a new emerging challenge for AI investors. As existing portfolio company ambitions grow alongside emerging AI, they'll have to find a way to both find the next post-ChatGPT Databricks and Hugging Face without competing with their existing investments.
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AI Products Strategy: Beyond Productivity Assistants
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I've been thinking about AI products recently, and while the major labs (OpenAI, GDM, Anthropic) are competing on productivity assistants, character is clearly going in a different direction. Thinking from first principles, human beings have a few fundamental desires: not being
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OpenAI shifts workload from Microsoft to Google Cloud
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'As those freebies dwindled, OpenAI began shifting its workload to Google Cloud, seemingly winding down its relationship with Microsoft before it really got underway.' https://
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How AI Influences What You See on Facebook Instagram
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How #AI Influences What You See on Facebook and Instagram https://
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AI Is Forever Changing Our Jobs And Reinventing Work
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AI Is Forever Changing Our Jobs And Reinventing The Way We Work
#AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @TopCyberNews @SpirosMargaris @MarshaCollier @MHiesboeck
@MHcommunicate @Fisher85M @MikeQuindazzi @NealSchaffer
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Open Source Cloud Collaborations: Following the Money Trail
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Wondering if OpenELA, OpenTF, or other open source corporate collaborations will work? Follow the cloud money https://
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Boston Dynamics founder says today’s robots are ‘as dumb as doorknobs’
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FYI on 8/9/23, Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert: "Robots today are really stupid. They're as dumb as doorknobs…I think there's a future where the robots are smarter, & they use that intelligence to make it easier (for us) to have them do their task & to communicate w them."
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Generative AI Adoption: Preserving Human Differentiation in Business
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“Every company will have access to generative AI, but their people, products, processes and culture represent the unique, differentiated elements of every business. The firms that rush into replacing humans with generative AI risk losing those key differentiators.” Our CEO
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US Market Strategy: Potential Margin Concessions Ahead
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I don’t know that it needs to change, but I suspect they will have to give on margin in the US market
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AI and emerging tech during FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
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It’s no surprise AI showed up this summer Down Under during the 2023 @FIFAWWC
. #FIFAWWC For my latest @Digiday story, I wrote about some of the ways advertisers, social platforms and FIFA itself used emerging tech during the @FIFAWorldCup
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digiday.com/media-buying/h
ow-ai-and-other-emerging-tech-showed-up-during-the-fifa-womens-world-cup/
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