Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software. Cloud LLM Infrastructure Microsoft OpenAI Snowflake Nvidia Databricks Mosaic Google Anthropic Oracle Cohere Amazon HuggingFace Microsoft has invested over $10b, plus significant development efforts to work with OpenAI.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. And here is a passage from their earnings transcript talking about AI: Let's spend some time framing the dimensions of this new AI world. … And with regard to Gen AI, the momentum is outstanding. Follow along to stay up to date!

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

How is AI going to impact the software and SaaS landscape of the next couple of years and also the next 5-10 years? Kristina Shen, General Partner at a16z, shares some insights into the present and future of generative AI at this week’s Workshop Wednesday, held every Wednesday at 10 a.m. For B2B Generative AI Apps, Is Less More?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

Generative AI took the consumer landscape by storm in 2023, reaching over a billion dollars of consumer spend 1 in record time. Over the past couple months, we’ve spoken with dozens of Fortune 500 and top enterprise leaders , 2 and surveyed 70 more, to understand how they’re using, buying, and budgeting for generative AI.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 11, 2023

Great companies transform a technology innovation into a go-to-market advantage. In the last five major cycles (internet, social, mobile, cloud, web3), startups seized the new technologies of the era to create a distribution advantage. What is the distribution advantage AI confers to startups? AI enables ABM-at-scale.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 15, 2023

A product manager today faces a key architectural question with AI : to use a small language model or a large language model? The pace of innovation in the field clouds the answer. the company would prefer to rely on external experts to drive innovation within the models.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In his most recent earnings conference call, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella said “Every product of Microsoft will have some of the same AI capabilities to completely transform the product.” ” Today, Microsoft Teams launched AI features in Teams for a fee. Mobile, cloud, social - startups led each of those waves.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 5, 2024

They addressed the top concern for CISOs: the impact of generative AI on enterprise security. Here’s what they had to say about the key considerations for technology adoption and strategies CISOs can employ to navigate the rise of AI-driven security solutions: 1. What is the biggest security threat that enterprises face today?

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution. David George: Sure.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 9, 2024

It has emerged as a dominant force in cloud computing. As the popularity of SaaS rises, it is a must for every entrepreneur to know the latest SaaS innovations. AI and ML Artificial intelligence and SaaS is a combination of a perfect team. The SaaS industry is evolving. Well, it makes many tasks easier than ever before.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 15, 2024

Will you be prepared for the SaaS AI revolution? Companies providing software as a service are under intense pressure to innovate since the global market for cloud services is projected to reach about $680 billion in 2024. More than 70% of SaaS companies are increasing their spending on AI, according to studies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. Or maybe you’re still determining how generative AI will benefit your customers, and right now it’s a nice-to-have for certain users.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

During those 30 years as an Open Source platform, multiple developers and professionals adopted and contributed to it to the point where, today, Linux is everywhere—supercomputers, AI, IoT, embedded devices, and so on. We’re currently in the age of the public cloud. Innovation happens more easily on Open Source in a SaaS model.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Snowflake’s cloud analytics database thrives on structured data. Databricks’ technology rips through unstructured data in a cloud data lake house. Some customers run Databricks on their hardware (called on-premises or on-prem), whereas all Snowflake customers run on Snowflake’s cloud.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But AI could be coming (editor’s note: it did). Sam quickly pointed out that while AI is a potential technological platform shift, it is not a distribution platform shift. So, AI has come out and definitely created a technological shift that enables new ways to solve problems that couldn’t be done before.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

And the broad impact of this wave of AI is already creating the sort of massive value we’ve seen with other platform shifts, like the internet, mobile, cloud. AI today 1. Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 5, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has quickly become one of the primary models for offering software applications over the internet, and SaaS Development Frameworks provide developers with a methodical way of building and deploying these cloud apps efficiently while guaranteeing scale, reliability, and security of them. Examples may include: 1.

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. We were really impressed with Class Companion’s founder Avery Pan’s clear vision and mission to help teachers leverage AI to improve education. Our current set of funds totals $3.4B. #3.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

We had a great one last time with Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors. Businesses involved in AI, climate, and generally any software ventures that demonstrate efficient growth are experiencing high demand. Check that out here. This week we’re focusing on Peter Specht, Partner at Creandum! #1.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Amazing smaller, deep dive sessions with top leaders in SaaS and Cloud. Demystifying AI for SaaS: Practical Steps to Drive Innovation with Bessemer Venture Partner’s Anant Vidur Puri #5. We have 250+ Braindates already for SaaStrAnnual.com 2023 next week!! The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to Singapore. Making it simple to implement, Ramya Periyagaram Chandrasekaran, Co-Founder at Datalligence AI Private Limited Why Is NRR the Most Important Growth Metric? 1,000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 1.5

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

One of the strategy changes is to say, “Hey if we turn up the innovation and actual product quality, can we ultimately get around having to spend all this money on advertising?” How good are you as an organization at planning, innovating, and thinking about business processes and then implementing them in your business?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the latest installment of SaaStr’s What’s New series – where we sit down with the leaders in SaaS and Cloud for the inside scoop on what’s top of mind and what’s new, SaaStr CEO and Jason Lemkin chats with the CEO of ZoomInfo , Henry Schuck. How is ZoomInfo Integrating More Advanced AI? So, what’s new at ZoomInfo?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2023

Zendesk AI automates customer support. Salesforce launched AI Cloud. That is a meaningful innovation. Examples like these illustrate conceptually how AI could unlock 1000x the GDP growth of the PC. In the last month, Hubspot launched ChatSpot. Adobe’s released Firefly.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This conversation is part of our AI Revolution series, which features some of the most impactful builders in the field of AI discussing and debating where we are, where we’re going, and the big open questions in AI. Find more content from our AI Revolution series on www.a16z.com/AIRevolution.

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SaaStr

APRIL 5, 2023

All in the Cloud! A cautionary tale of being innovative, but over time … not keeping up. 4. “AI” alone isn’t a magic improvement to their product. Their AI messaging volume is flat. #5. The first was Salesforce, to get our CRM going (today, we would likely have gone with HubSpot).

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. And with AI, we are only beginning to understand the possibilities. Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations).

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SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2023

Many net-new purchases are for data security, compliance, risk management, and AI-powered tools. AI-Powered Tools: AI-related purchases in Q1: Made up 41% of new investments in Q1. Oates explains, “Companies are recognizing the need to incorporate AI into their operations to gain efficiencies.” weakest link.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to the latest installment of our “ What’s New ” series where SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin sits down with some of the top leaders and founders in SaaS and Cloud to discuss What’s New and what should be top of mind for fellow founders. More and more info is entering the Cloud, creating more exposure and risk.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Let’s explore each of these data analytics trends to understand how they can be leveraged in your company: Smarter analytics with artificial intelligence : AI enhances data analytics by making processes faster, more scalable, and cost-effective, enabling better user behavior prediction and product optimization.

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Audacix

MAY 30, 2023

AI-driven test automation for Oracle EBS is a hot topic in the EBS ecosystem and many CIOs and project managers are eager to see how it could help them ship their EBS upgrades on time, while cutting your testing costs. But before you jump on the AI bandwagon, there are some things you need to know. Not even close.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We recently brought together Denise Persson, CMO @ Snowflake , Emil Eifrem, CEO @ Neo4j , and Spencer Kimball, CEO & Co-founder @ Cockroach Labs, to discuss the future of data infrastructure in the Cloud. So how do we change our businesses by fundamentally exploiting the benefits of the cloud? #1 Architectures were once monolithic.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Klue , which operates an AI-based competitive analysis platform, announced a $15 million Series A investment this week. Founded in 2015, Klue addresses a part of the corporate world that has seen little innovation. This is where the AI/ML comes it as the data is put into manageable blocks. Tom Taulli.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Pivoting from growth at all costs in 2020 and 2021 to efficiency in 2022 and 2023 meant slashing budgets, shelving new projects, doing RIFs, and picking fights with your cloud provider over your bills. A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand.

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