The future belongs to those who show up.
STARTUPS
-

5 Practical Insights for Building LLM-Based Businesses
By
–
Good morning fellow AI enthusiast! This is the sixth video of my series for our free course "Training & Fine-Tuning LLMs for Production"! Here are 5 practical insights/tools for LLM-based businesses: https://
open.substack.com/pub/louisbouch
ard/p/5-steps-to-build-language-models?r=25qlky&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
… -

MBA Manager Without Tech Experience Destroys Data Science Team
By
–
I once worked at a startup where they decided to put a guy with an MBA in charge of the Data Science team. No tech experience whatsoever. The whole team fell apart not long after that. https://t.co/WINk6wkbsc
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 3 décembre 2023I once worked at a startup where they decided to put a guy with an MBA in charge of the Data Science team. No tech experience whatsoever. The whole team fell apart not long after that.
-
Companies positioned to win in AI if execution succeeds
By
–
Several companies will "win" if they don't screw up.
-
Resources Required: From Invention to Recognition and Impact
By
–
You won't have the resources to make your idea real.
So you won't have a product, and you won't have publications.
The world will never hear about your invention. Without a working product or a peer-reviewed publication, the establishment (academia, industry, investors) will -
Research in Startups: Publishing vs Revenue Pressures
By
–
No. You can not possibly do research in a startup.
You might do it for a little bit of time. But you often won't publish.
But then, you run out of money and have to quickly develop products that generate revenue. -
Anthropic Founded by OpenAI Researchers After For-Profit Pivot
By
–
Really?
I mean, Anthropic was founded by people who left OpenAI.
Quite a few research-oriented people left OpenAI when it pivoted to a for-profit development outfit funded by Microsoft. -

Cloud Compute Consumption Shift Driven by AI Growth
By
–
The other big shift we're seeing is a change in consumption in cloud compute. Snowflake's earnings signaled that there would be a rebound in consumption based pricing, and you hear about it more these days among startups. AI isn't the whole story, but it seems like a big part.
-
OpenAI’s Major Event Sparks Wave of AI Challenger Startups
By
–
First, the obvious, that thing at OpenAI. It was a big deal and probably the most consequential story in tech in the last decade. But it also opened the door for challenger startups—29 of them that I'm tracking closely, to be exact.
-

November AI Breakthroughs: Startups and Cloud Business Shifts
By
–
A lot happened in November in AI! And not just that one thing about that one big company. We saw a lot of big movement with startup launches and releases, as well as what feels like a big shift looming in one of cloud's most popular business models.