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“integrating multiple LLMs into a single service, and deploying applications at low cost—these are the problems projects now face” Jacob Robbins from PitchBook is spot on about the necessity of orchestration to make AI valuable, although there are a few key points that he doesn’t mention in today’s article: 1. Connecting people with systems and AI is essential for making AI valuable; too many orchestration strategies miss the critical “human in the loop” capability. This wasn’t nearly as important with traditional software and is a key way that AI is different. 2. GenAI and LLMs are only part of a winning AI strategy because they only improve productivity. Companies that also improve predictability, especially of revenue and cash flow will crush a competitor that has only invested in productivity. You’re signing up to loose if your orchestrstion solution doesn’t support both. 3. The biggest hidden cost of AI is maintenance - I’ve seen it massively underestimated and cripple projects for over a decade. Manually maintaining AI costs way more than traditional, rules based software. The solution, orchestration that is aware of the inputs and outputs to your business processes. Why? If your AI system automates capturing the data that your AI needs to stay current, you can automate maintenance. What about governance? See rule #1 - humans in the loop to review the automated model updates before replacing the models in production. DM me if this sounds abstract - I’d love to show you a demo #realai https://lnkd.in/eCubjzFh
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Learning is inspiring. Surround yourself with really smart people and daily work becomes exhilarating. AI is certainly disruptive, but Krista is the easiest way to bring AI into an organization.
Chief AI Officer | Optimized $50B+ with Predictive AI | On a mission to help teams succeed with AI
“integrating multiple LLMs into a single service, and deploying applications at low cost—these are the problems projects now face” Jacob Robbins from PitchBook is spot on about the necessity of orchestration to make AI valuable, although there are a few key points that he doesn’t mention in today’s article: 1. Connecting people with systems and AI is essential for making AI valuable; too many orchestration strategies miss the critical “human in the loop” capability. This wasn’t nearly as important with traditional software and is a key way that AI is different. 2. GenAI and LLMs are only part of a winning AI strategy because they only improve productivity. Companies that also improve predictability, especially of revenue and cash flow will crush a competitor that has only invested in productivity. You’re signing up to loose if your orchestrstion solution doesn’t support both. 3. The biggest hidden cost of AI is maintenance - I’ve seen it massively underestimated and cripple projects for over a decade. Manually maintaining AI costs way more than traditional, rules based software. The solution, orchestration that is aware of the inputs and outputs to your business processes. Why? If your AI system automates capturing the data that your AI needs to stay current, you can automate maintenance. What about governance? See rule #1 - humans in the loop to review the automated model updates before replacing the models in production. DM me if this sounds abstract - I’d love to show you a demo #realai https://lnkd.in/eCubjzFh
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Corporate lawyer/investment advisor representative guiding Founders and VC firms through the capital raising process so they can focus on growing their company and leave ALL the regulations and paperwork to us.
Lots of things happening in this space from governance to capital investments... "Venture capital has had a tough 12 months. But despite a $71.6 billion drop in funding for the asset class compared to 2022—more than $88 billion if you leave out OpenAI and Anthropic's behemoth rounds—sunnier skies may be ahead. VC deal count was still higher in Q4 2023 than in any quarter in the pre-2020 days, while public markets finished up for the year, according to the latest PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, sponsored by J.P. Morgan, Dentons and Deloitte. On the one hand, the IPO backlog keeps lengthening. On the other, the market is awash with dry powder, and many expect that economic uncertainty will lessen, bringing the market back into a stable state."
AI Trends For 2024 - Voluntary Commitments By Companies To Responsible AI
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As it often goes, Bessemer Venture Partners is investing as the revolution is happening. 💫 The infrastructure and the foundational layer to power the AI era is changing every. single. day. On Atlas, dive into our latest thinking about the technology that will become the building blocks of our future. ⤵️
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 📈 Machine learning has dramatically advanced in recent years — since the 2017 breakout paper “Attention is all you need,” which laid the foundation for the transformer deep learning architecture, we have now reached a Cambrian explosion of AI research, with new papers being published every day and compounding at an astonishing pace. 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐯𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬. First, AI is powering the modern data stack, and incumbent data infrastructure companies have started incorporating AI functionalities for synthesis, retrieval, and enrichment within data management. Additionally, recognizing the strategic importance of the AI wave as a business opportunity, several incumbents have even released entirely new products to support AI workloads and AI-first users. For instance, many database companies now support embeddings as a data type, either as a new feature or standalone offering. Next, data and AI are inextricably linked. Data continues to grow at a phenomenal rate to push the limits on current infrastructure tooling. The volume of generated data, especially unstructured data, is projected to skyrocket to 612 zettabytes by 2030, driven by the wave of ML/AI excitement and synthetic data produced by generative models across all modalities. (One zettabyte = one trillion gigabytes or one billion terabytes.) In addition to volume, data types and sources continue to grow in complexity and variety. Companies are responding by developing new hardware including more powerful processors (e.g., GPUs, TPUs), better networking hardware to facilitate efficient data movement, and next-gen storage devices. Lastly, building on recent progress in ML and hardware, a new wave of AI-native and AI-embedded startups is emerging—these companies either leverage AI/ML from the ground up or use it to augment their existing capabilities. Unfortunately, much of current data infrastructure and tooling is still not optimized for AI use cases. Similar to forcing a square peg into a round hole, AI engineers have had to create workarounds or hacks within their current infrastructure. 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞-𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐈. Subscribe to Atlas for more insights on AI Infrastructure from our investment team, including Elliott Robinson, Mary D'Onofrio, David Cowan, Janelle Teng, Grace Ma, and Bhavik N. >>> https://lnkd.in/giuJ65Sw
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Explore major trends, challenges, and opportunities facing the #venturecapital market globally and in key jurisdictions around in the world in KPMG's Venture Pulse Q2 2024 report. Click here https://social.kpmg/3k6iyf | #Q2VC #venturecapital
Q2’24 Venture Pulse Report – Global trends
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Missed Blueprint: The Future of Real Estate 2024? Nima Wedlake sat down with host Kenon Chen to dive into how the current real estate market is shifting, how companies are evolving to meet these changes, and the growing role of AI in #proptech. Listen to the full episode to hear Nima’s insights on the future of the industry:
Conversations at Blueprint Vegas 2024: Nima Wedlake, Managing Director, Thomvest Ventures
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Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing industries and reshaping private equity! 📊💡 In a recent discussion, Michael G. Jacobides of London Business School and Yuri Romanenkov explored GenAI's profound impacts on industry transformation. This insightful conversation is based on a policy paper by LBS and the Institute of Directors (IoD), examining GenAI's impact on the U.K.'s competitive landscape. The paper, supported by Evolution Ltd, was introduced at the Private Capital Symposium 2024. 🚀 Michael and Yuri explore: 💠How GenAI amplifies corporate inequalities and the role of proprietary data. 💠The key attributes that help companies succeed with GenAI. 💠The significant findings from firms experiencing transformative GenAI impacts. 💠Strategic integration of GenAI for operational and customer engagement excellence. 💠The implications for #privateequity #investors 🔗 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹! https://lnkd.in/ebRAutQZ 👀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: : https://lnkd.in/eMpdcwVf #GenAI #IndustryTransformation #PrivateEquity #Innovation #LondonBusinessSchool #AI #TechRevolution
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Floode is a complete reimagination of how email should work to harness the power of AI. It's an AI executive assistant built for personalized prioritization, draft composition, event scheduling, and much more. While many other tools sit on top of your inbox, this is a whole new way of working. We're excited to back Floode and watch them eliminate the inbox system. Read why we invested in Sarah Allali and check out an early demo:
Floode - Why We Invested - Broadshade Investments
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Proud of my friend Danyal Özdüzenciler and everything he has achieved so far with Capsa AI, as they close their £1.7 million seed funding round led by Outward VC, with participation from Cornerstone VC, Antler, and several high-profile angel investors. Capsa AI, founded by Danyal and Callum Downie just 8 months ago, is reshaping the private equity space by automating time-consuming due diligence tasks like creating company profiles, consolidating financial data, and reviewing contracts. Their AI-driven platform allows PE professionals to focus on value creation, delivering faster, more strategic insights. I’m excited to see where Danyal, Callum, and the team take Capsa AI next! Press coverage in the comments. #SeedFunding #AI #PrivateEquity #Innovation
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Read all about it📢 See the press release below highlighting the insights from DwellFi's report, "The State of Applied AI in Fund Administration." Crafted in collaboration with industry leaders Alternatives Watch, Withum, and Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP, this report is a must-read for fund administrators aiming to stay competitive in today's dynamic M&A market. Discover how AI is not just a tool but a critical differentiator in the fund administration landscape. With 40% of fund admins already harnessing Gen AI tools and a staggering 80% planning to adopt them within the next year, the report highlights AI's pivotal role in driving efficiency and scalability. As firms navigate the complexities of mergers and acquisitions, AI emerges as an indispensable ally, streamlining operations and enhancing firm valuations. Hear from thought leaders Joseph Cassano, CPA, John T. Araneo, Kumar Ujjwal, and Skyler Steinke, who share their insights on how AI is reshaping the future of fund administration. This report is your gateway to understanding how strategic investments in AI infrastructure and training can position your firm for success. Don't miss out on these invaluable insights! Read the full report and equip your firm with the knowledge to thrive in a rapidly evolving market: https://lnkd.in/gF4QqyTE Contact Skyler Steinke or Nathan Paitchel to start your journey of Applied AI adoption today. #DwellFi #AI #FundAdministration #PressRelease #Innovation #FutureOfFinance
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