Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 4, 2024

What does advertising look like in the world of AI? In a future where generative AI dominates search, the ten blue links & five sponsored ads disappear. These are both passed to the AI model into the context window. Today, advertisers create ads for search & pay to associate them with keywords.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

At SaaStr AI Day , Mike Tamir, Head of AI at Shopify, and Rudina Seseri, founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures, level-set about where we are in the cycle for Enterprises adopting AI and the critical work being done at Shopify to leverage AI and solve real problems. The future of Enterprise is “Ambient AI.”

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig joined Seema Amble, Partner at Andreessen Horowitz at SaaStr Annual to share their observations on what’s currently working and what’s not quite there yet for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in SaaS. What’s Currently Working in AI for SaaS 1.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

From automated emails to visual search , AI allows companies to better support their customers at more touchpoints along their journey. AI chatbots use your existing information and resources, like FAQs or knowledge bases , to answer questions and offer help. Chatbots don’t just use AI to answer questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Being responsible for the design of AI services used by millions of people is a huge responsibility, and Arin is deeply aware of that. According to him, good design doesn’t need to sacrifice transparency, and imperceptible AI isn’t ethical AI. For Arin, explainability is a key element when it comes to ethical AI.

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Sparktoro

AUGUST 4, 2024

The good folks at Sonata Insights recently analyzed Datos‘ clickstream panel to uncover consumer search behavior insights in the “age of AI” If you’re in the digital marketing world, it’s probably worth your time to download and read.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

JANUARY 17, 2025

In this video, we analyze 46,000 keywords to reveal where AI Overviews are actually appearing in search results, which industries are most affected, and what this means for your SEO strategy.

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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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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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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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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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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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Now, we believe generative AI promises to revolutionize marketplaces again. Over the next 3 to 5 years, we expect some existing marketplaces will pivot, some will go out of business, and some will be supercharged with the help of AI. Custom supply creation Imagine a marketplace where a searched-for product (e.g.,

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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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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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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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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

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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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2024

They dive into the nuances of topics like: Evolving dynamics of remote work The most effective marketing channels of 2024 Owned assets vs. “walled gardens” The practical realities vs. the hype around AI As everyone here at SaaStr knows, Jason sold his first company, Echosign, for $400M. At Zapier, they’ve been good at search.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

So 40% of our content at SaaStr Europa was on AI this year, and probably 33% of SaaStr Annual last year. But it’s time for a full-fledged SaaStr AI Summit this year inside of SaaStr Annual. You can join us just for AI Summit or all of Annual. Just a few of the sessions coming: #1. ” #2. ” #2. ” #4.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 7, 2025

The right AI marketing tools will help you automate repetitive tasks, make data-driven decisions, and unblock your creativity. The shift to AI-powered marketing has been dramatic. According to Hubspot, 74% of marketers now use AI in their roles, compared to just 21% in 2023. The cool thing is you get a lot of control.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

CRO Confidential podcast host Sam Blond chats with the CEO and co-founder of Clay, Kareem Amin, about two major topics: The evolution of Go-To-Market systems: where we are today with the incorporation of AI, and where we’re headed. It blends AI and SaaS and can speed up the outbound Go-To-Market process. So let’s dive in.

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Neil Patel

MAY 14, 2021

Well, now it’s possible, thanks to AI copywriting tools powered by machine learning. What Is AI Copywriting and How Does It Work? AI copywriting is essentially computer-generated writing created using natural language processing tools. Then, you set certain parameters for the AI tool to follow. AI Copywriting Limitations.

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SaaStr

JULY 3, 2024

Accel Partner Philipe Botteri and Synthesia’s co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli deep dive into the lessons learned about building an Enterprise-focused Generative AI company and scaling it. They began with AI dubbing, dubbing real video into different languages and changing the lip synchronization and voice-over.

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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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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2024

If it wasn’t clear before, AI is the single biggest revenue driver in cloud. ” Much of the AI spend is at the enterprise, where a 50% reduction in customer support cost or a 75% increase in engineering capacity filters billions to the bottom line. 5b AI product suite. 5b AI product suite. “We now have 1.8

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IT World

MAY 23, 2023

Microsoft is all in on artificial intelligence (AI) for a very simple reason: it believes its lead in the technology will make it the tech world’s top dog again. Microsoft is far behind Google in search and browsers, but it believes AI can help it eat into that lead, or even make Microsoft dominant. And that’s just in search.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In the last two years, M&A has totaled about $49b & it surges to above $60b driven by AI acquisitions. AI & data continue to dominate the funding landscape as founders & investors seek novel applications of the technology. SaaS did see a second wave fueled by AI, but the productivity gains remain to be seen.

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