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Cloud AI Market Strategy: Developer Focus vs Enterprise Positioning
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Not competing, different products for different users segments (we are focused on devs, they are focused on large enterprise). These’s some overlap, but under the hood everyone is a cloud customer, so very collaborative and positive sum!
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Microsoft Build Google I/O Computex 2026 Major Tech Events
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Headed up to Seattle for Microsoft Build (and conducting some fun interviews), followed immediately by Mountain View for Google I/O (and more interviews). Computex is also this week. Gonna be a wild ride!
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Modern Data Stack Consolidation Through M&A Activity
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I’m back to (recreationally) writing while figuring out what’s next. First thing looking what’s happening with the modern data (and MLOps) stack. With the flurry of M&A (and M&A talks), the long-coming and frequent joke that the MDS consolidation may have finally arrived!
→ View original post on X — @mattlynley, 2025-05-17 18:58 UTC
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Venture mania in data/ML space: overcrowded and overfunded market
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In the later 10s/early 20s there was practically a venture mania for companies in the orbit of Snowflake and Databricks, with some (like Dbt, Weights & Biases, and so on) reaching lofty valuations. But most you’d talk to would consider it massively overcrowded (and overfunded).
→ View original post on X — @mattlynley, 2025-05-17 18:58 UTC
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Startup Strategy: Selling Before Building Success
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If 'sell before you build' is gospel for startups what’s the real strategy behind 》Selling it well?
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The AI Revolution Is Underhyped According to Eric Schmidt
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Thought provoking conversation: The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED https://youtu.be/id4YRO7G0wE?si=_XIYhpsfUWtaZAVz … via @YouTube
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DDVC Data-Driven VC Landscape Report 2025 Released
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3 years in a row! check out this year's DDVC report here: https://
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AI Model Scaling Limits: Tech Companies Face Innovation Challenges
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have no idea about meta specifically, but the same thing is happening at ALL tech companies they’re running out of ideas to improve the models, can’t 10x the amount of text written by humans, can’t afford to 10x training compute again this next year is gonna be interesting
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Saudi Arabia’s Massive AI Investment and Global Deals
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Vous vous souvenez de Jensen ? Je vous l'avais dit : il est en train de devenir l’un des hommes les plus puissants du monde. Regardez-le, au cœur de ce méga deal entre les présidents américain et émirati. Les milliards pleuvent sur l’IA. L’Arabie saoudite mise tout dessus pour