The magic of AI will only be unlocked for the agtech ecosystem once we have good ag data to feed the beast. We need digitized, harmonized, standardized, interoperable, machine-readable data for the magical AI tools to do meaningful work in agriculture. Let's get to work!
AgTech Ecosystem - a couple observations from a few podcasts on the sizable impact AI is having on the general tech landscape (including All In podcast episode 166): 1) NVIDIA ($60.9B in fiscal 2024 revenue - 126% YoY) has become the 4th most valuable company (behind only Microsoft, Apple, and Saudi Aramco and ahead of Google and Amazon at $1.8T in market cap by building GPUs and custom AI chips for other tech players. I think this is exactly right - GPUs will become the de facto architecture element (much like the x86 chips became the primary chips for Microsoft-Intel PCs) and who better to design custom AI chips to squeeze more performance out of them than NVIDIA? 2) OpenAI is on track to hit $2B in revenue and is the current regenerative AI client leader with ChatGPT. They have established and capitalized on first mover advantage and even competent to comparable products from Microsoft, Google, and other big and small players are playing catch up in a market that is forecasat to grow to $1.3T by 2032 (from an estimated $44B in 2023). 3) The compute build out for AI is underway and the pipes and infrastructure need to get built out before the applications layer can really take off. Think of the internet - we had to get a lot of laptops with high-speed chips and larger broadband connections, massive uptick in connectivity with networking equipment, and all done with 5 9's of reliability before the application layer could take advantage of all the speedy chips and network connections to home and work. The 90s were the build out, then the 2000s really got things moving in key categories like e-commerce, search, and social networking. If you compare the internet and the infrastructure build out to AI, AI is about where the internet was in the early 1990s and it took 5-10 years to get the infrastructure challenges addressed before websites and applications like Google, Amazon, eBay, Netflix, and Facebook started to become a thing. Everything got faster once the infrastructure got better. Bottom line - AI has already helped create the 4th largest company by valuation, a $1.3T market forecast for 2032, tee up an infrastructure build so that the applications layer for AI can create value, and create a situation where the internet in the early 90s is a clearly similar platform model for AI startups, investors, and practitioners to consider as things move forward. I continue to believe that AI will be the technology with the largest aggregate impact of anything we have seen since the internet itself. I also continue to believe that as "horizontal" AI platform elements improve, it will create leverage opportunities for verticals like AgTech. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen. Rob Trice Seana Day Vonnie Estes Rhishi P. #impactofai #innovation #agtech https://lnkd.in/gBzA5z9k
E166: Mind-blowing AI Video: OpenAI launches Sora + Is Biden too old? Tucker/Putin interview & more
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Intriguing insights on the transformative potential of AI in agtech and the pivotal role of data standardization—looking forward to seeing how these advancements will propel the industry forward.
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5moRob Trice hypothetically speaking a start up could create their own software with AI as a co-pilot, ask the same AI to suggest the right data to capture within the software to provide actionable insights …. Don’t tell anyone though, secret among friends eh 🤐