Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This growth is fueled by AI workloads. ” “Higher-than-expected AI consumption contributed to revenue growth in Azure.” “In Azure, we expect revenue growth to be 26% to 27% in constant currency with an increasing contribution from AI. Google, on the other hand, declined after having plateaued last quarter.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, AI search has become an invaluable tool for finding information quickly and efficiently. At FastSpring, we aim to continually enhance our AI search capabilities, ensuring you receive accurate and relevant answers. ” For “Why is my invoice not showing up?,”

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Sparktoro

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Today, Google’s search results still look (mostly) like lists of snippets and links, e.g. But, plenty of search marketers and industry observers suspect we’re in the closing days of this format, and the future holds something closer to how AI-tools like ChatGPT and Bard answer user-inputted prompts, e.g. If that’s the case, what can/should (..)

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Search is like the front door to your website. As the most effective way to reach your audience, search is critical to your digital marketing strategy and each customer journey. Your customers are only a search query away, thanks to search engines like Google. The evolution of search has a long history.

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IT World

JUNE 6, 2023

Palo Alto-based startup Glean, founded in 2019 by former Google, Microsoft and Meta employees, has released a new generative-AI based assistant, dubbed Glean Chat, designed to boost productivity and efficiency across enterprises via a conversational search interface.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

But the story in this quarter’s reports is AI. Another example of AI favoring incumbents : Epic, a large health records company worth about $10-12b with about 30% market share in the US, has implemented some OpenAI features. Another data point I’m watching is Bing search share. 1 percentage point of growth on a $28.5b

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2024

Will AI sofware companies operate with better or worse profitability than a classic SaaS company? Initially, I thought worse since the expense of serving AI as a product is signficantly higher. AI SaaS may be much more profitable than the -10% average net income margins of the current crop of public businesses. Deflationary.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

So I started a list : what are the ways I use AI that are new in the last year? Or correct the grammar in a sentence or execute a quick search on a topic or summarize an email or format a list. AI is driving a broader behavior change : summarize, then determine whether to invest the effort to read.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2024

In the last few years, since the release of Attention is All You Need Paper , AI has boomed. OpenAI categorizes levels of AI similarly to self-driving cars. What if that little orange elbow is the beginning of reasoning in AI? The rapid pace of iteration has led to the release of model after model.

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IT World

MARCH 8, 2023

DuckDuckGo, the search engine focused on user privacy, announced today that it is rolling out an AI-powered instant answer service, which it calls DuckAssist, as part of a larger plan to integrate AI across its product lineup.

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Sparktoro

AUGUST 9, 2023

In the not-too-distant future, we’ll look back at the days when a full 1/3rd of Google searches resulted in a free click to the open web and marvel at how good we had it. For the last few months, Google’s been telegraphing that generative AI answers will soon appear in search results.

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The Moz Blog

JULY 5, 2024

In this Whiteboard Friday, Garrett discusses AI Overviews and how to optimize your SEO strategy for this new super-charged AI-powered search ranking snippet.

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TechEmpower SaaS

JULY 24, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Does your application leverage AI in any way? How can we use AI to improve the customer experience? AI Assisted Development How can we use AI to speed up our SLDC? How can we leverage AI to get our product to market faster? Search Does the application include search?

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Google led to search-engine optimization, which startups like Expedia & Zillow grew to become public companies. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups? There are a few emerging possibilities : OpenAI plug-in architecture enables companies to build products integrated into a new search & discovery experience.

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The Moz Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

The larger SEO world has been rocked by algo updates, AI Overviews, and a large Google leak, all of which have impacted local in some way. Learn about the top local search developments of this quarter. The second quarter of 2024 has been… interesting!

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IT World

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Not so long ago, in the 1990s, online users had their choice of a variety of search engines. With PageRank, Google rates the relevancy of web pages to queries based not only on whether the pages contain the search terms (the technique used by all search engines) but by how many relevant pages link to it.

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The Moz Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Ross talks about how search has changed and how we, as marketers, can navigate that change to produce quality content. With the increased use of AI and LLMs, content creation may seem more complex, but it’s still based on the fundamentals we use every day.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2023

G2 CEO Godard Abel deep dives into his original vision for G2, going multi-product, selling with multiple sales teams, demand gen spend, and why AI is the most important thing right now. You can filter your search by industry, whether you’re SMB, mid-market, or Enterprise, etc. AI is just a better interface than forms-based searching.

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IT World

MARCH 28, 2023

A new tussle between Microsoft and its partners that use Bing’s search index data has highlighted the company’s intensions of trying to lead the race for generative AI, experts say.

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IT World

APRIL 20, 2023

Samsung may be looking to swap out Google Search as the default search engine on its smartphones for Microsoft’s AI-based Bing search engine. The move could cost Google up to $3 billion in annual revenue from its partnership with the South Korean electronics giant, according to a Yahoo report.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. Discord launched Clyde Hubspot launched Chatbot Snapchat launched MyAI Spotify was able to offer better recommendation engines — AI DJ.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

So is AI taking over everything? Across the SaaStr Fund portfolio, I’ve seen multiple portfolio companies lost $1m customers to new, in-house AI initiatives. But I’ve also seen others grow even faster as AI rebooted and enhanced their products. AI is part of it, platforms are part of it. I mean … maybe.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 7, 2024

So what does this mean for the huge wave of new consumer AI companies, whose products are still early in their product cycles, often early in their implementation stages, and are evolving in real time? Here are the 7 most effective ways for AI-native consumer companies to improve their retention. In a word: yes.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2024

Product managers & designers working with AI face a unique challenge: designing a delightful product experience that cannot fully be predicted. However, with AI, the rules have changed. How does one design a product experience in the fog of AI? Traditionally, product development followed a linear path.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 29, 2024

Contrary to popular belief, people who craft content for a living aren’t all AI haters. But here’s the thing: I never use AI for actual writing. Additionally, many of my clients worry about the use of AI-generated content because they fear their intellectual property will be fed into a large learning model.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 1, 2024

From creating instant emails to summarizing customer accounts in seconds, AI is a dream tool for CSMs. ChurnZero’s You Mon Tsang says that while AI’s speed and “wow” factor are impressive, its real value in SaaS comes from applying it to existing workflows to solve ambitious challenges. I need to raise the NPS score of my SaaS company.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 4, 2023

Have you ever tried a Google search that just wasn’t giving you the answers you were seeking? Content creators need all the help they can get – and they can find it in AI. No longer a far-fetched idea out of a 90s movie, AI has the potential to support content creators at every stage of the content creation process.

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IT World

MAY 15, 2023

ChatGPT ’s paid subscribers gain access this week to plugins allowing access to websites and Bing internet search, according to Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the creator of the generative AI application.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 13, 2024

Adriana Gil Miner is CMO at Iterable, the AI-powered customer communication platform. Discussed in this Episode: Leveraging AI and ChatGPT for creative, high-volume ad testing and optimization. Most recruiting firms fill an order, but IPS is a different breed of search firm. Brought to you by IPS.

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Brian Balfour

JULY 31, 2023

In March, LinkedIn launched an AI assisted growth loop. Let me know on LinkedIn How LinkedIn’s AI Assisted Content Loop Works The feature is called a "collaborative article." They then use AI to generate the structure and headlines of the article. This adds UGC content to the AI generated article. How’s it going?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The role of AI in enhancing sales productivity rather than replacing salespeople. 23:47) The future of AI in sales as an enhancement rather than replacement. (29:46) A leading provider of AI-enhanced sales solutions, Altify is designed to help revenue teams work smarter. 13:13) Balancing self-serve and sales-assisted motions. (18:01)

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

I’ve been trying to write a comprehensive, buttoned-up “AI Update,” covering all this month’s AI developments. AI does not mean “the machine is thinking.” AGI isn’t here today, is unlikely to arrive in the near future, and is not part of the AI news I’m writing about.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Personalized ads offer higher click-through rates, lower cost per acquisition (CPA) , and provide a better customer experience because they will see exactly what they want to see when browsing your site or searching on Google. If used well, personalized advertising can also help you improve your organic search results.

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Unbounce

JUNE 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we live. From virtual assistants to self-driving cars, AI-powered technology is transforming us into a more efficient species by automating mundane tasks, providing personalized recommendations, and helping us make informed decisions. AI is coming to search.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 25, 2021

There are more ways than ever before to leverage digital AI for marketing funnel optimization, including responsive ads. With responsive search ads, you can use Google’s high-quality algorithms to create excellent ads that change over time to bring you the best results. What Are Responsive Search Ads?

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2023

For each of the 14 weeks, more people searched for ChatGPT than Taylor Swift according to Google Trends data. But Minnesotans & Idahoans & Vermontans are searching for ChatGPT. People are curious about AI. Over the next year or so, we will all ask each other, what could AI do for me?

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Buffer Resources

JUNE 27, 2024

I see AI as being one of those technologies that can dramatically help businesses streamline and scale. Identify ways to plug AI into what you’re already doing The possibilities with AI seem endless right now, but that means it can be easy to try to do too much and not have it actually add value. Start there.

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