My friend and former partner at Altimeter Group Jeremiah Owyang is now a VC at Blitzscaling Ventures along with my friend Chris Yeh. Owyang is also the host of Llama Lounge, one of the largest AI events in the San Francisco Bay Area. In February 2024, Owyang hosted Llama Lounge 8 at GENLAB in San Francisco with 300 attendees that included AI founders, venture capitalists, media, and influencers. The event also had hundreds of prospects on the waiting list. The…
AInsights: AI-Powered Enterprise Use Cases in HR, Customer Service, Payments, Retail, Automotive, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Pharmaceuticals
AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AIā¦. In my work at ServiceNow, we constantly host executives in our global innovation centers. AI is the number one topic everyone wants to explore. And in those meetings, I’m often asked to share use cases that go beyond innovative workflows to demonstrate how organizations are using AI to reimagine operational and business models entirely. I wanted to share some interesting examples with you in this edition of AInsights. The world’s largest…
AInsights: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang Ponders the Future of Coding, ChatGPT Gets Memory, Google Gemini 1.5 and the Meaning of Tokens, Three Alternatives to Google Search
AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AIā¦. NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang says teaching children how to code is no longer the goal, AI is meant to make programming, human At the World Government Summit NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang told the audience that children no longer need to learn how to code. Cue the brake screeching sound. “I want to say something and it’s going to sound completely opposite of what people feel,” Jensen said on stage. “Over the course of…
AInsights: OpenAI Dazzles with Sora, Sierra AI Makes Customer Service Human, NVIDIA Turns Your PC into an LLM
AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AIā¦. OpenAIās Sora produces groundbreaking video clips, democratizing and revolutionizing content creation As youāve probably heard, or most likely seen, OpenAI introduced its new generative AI video platform, Sora. Sora can create stunning, realistic high-definition videos from text instructions or a still image as a prompt. It can generate videos in various styles, such as photorealistic, animated, or black and white, up to a minute in length. Sora is currently limited to…
AInsights: The Impact of Generative AI on Business and Operational Transformation and Innovation
AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AIā¦. I recently reviewed an AI report published by Coatue, a technology investment platform. In this special edition of AInsights, I wanted to share some of the more notable insights from the research. Ā They demonstrate the significance of these times. This is the moment to build AI-first and AI augmented organizations, beyond automation and the digitization of legacy models, processes, and mindsets. There will be disruptors. And, there will be the disrupted….
AInsights: Fred Wilson Predicts AI’s Future, The Rise of Chief Innovation Officers, Sam Altman Seeks Trillions for AI Chips
Ā AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AIā¦. The AI stack has become foundational to next-gen business transformation Iāve followed the work of Fred Wilson for the better part of, wow, almost two decades. Heās legend and also influenced much of my work in New York during the rise of Web 2.0 and the mobile web. He recently wrote an article, āWhat Will Happen in 2024.ā In it, he described how AI was driving the āapplication era of AI.ā…
AInsights: MultiOn and Large Action Models (LAMs), Introducing Google Gemini and Its Version of Copilot, AI-Powered Frames, Disney’s HoloTile for VR
AInsights:Ā Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AIā¦. MultiOn AI represents a shift from generative AI that passively responds to queries to actively participating in accomplishing tasks The idea is this, tools such as ChatGPT are trained on large language models (LLMs). A new class of integrated, end-to-end AI solution is emerging to autonomously connect information, processes, digital experiences and outcomes as large action models (LAMs). MultiOn AI is a new class of tool that makes generative AI actionable. It…
AInsights: Fighting Against Deepfakes, GenAI Gets into College, AI CarePods Brings Healthcare to You
AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AI…. Meta leading effort to label AI-generated content One of the greatest threats building on profitable disinformation and misinformation campaigns is the rise of deepfakes. In recent news, a finance worker was tricked into paying out $25 million after a video call with his companyās CFO and coworkers turned out to be fake. The participants were digitally recreated using publicly available footage of each individual. Explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift widely…
Introducing AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AI
I started writing more and more about generative AI so that I could keep up with important trends and what they mean to executives. I gave it a name with a simple tagline:Ā “AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AI.” Here’s the running list of AInsights if you’d like to dive-in with me… You can subscribe to future AInsights, here. AInsights Catalog (Most Recent First) AInsights: OpenAIās O1 Model And The New Era Of Generative AI That Can Reason…
AInsights: The New Google Bard aka Gemini, Neuralink Trials, Bland Conversational AI Agents, Deep Fakes, and GPT Assistants
AInsights: Executive-level insights on the latest in generative AI…. Bard gets another massive update, attempting to pull users from competitive genAI sites such as ChatGPT and Midjourney; Google is reportedly rebranding Bard as Gemini Google Bard released a significant round of new updates, including: Integration with Google Services: Bard now draws information from YouTube, Google Maps, Flights, and Hotels, allowing users to ask a wider variety of questions and perform tasks like planning trips and obtaining templates for specific purposes….
