SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’re on the brink of one of the biggest technological advancements of our lifetime — AI. At this year’s SaaStr Annual, Mark Roberge, co-founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital, takes the stage to have a bake-off between startups and incumbents when it comes to who will win the AI Go-to-Market race.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2023

90% of startups have plans or have released an AI feature, 54% of those features will launch in 2023, but only 30% of companies are hiring new people to do it, according to ProductBoard’s survey. These figures highlight three points: AI has become an essential product component for most software companies.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Some believe AI is overhyped. A recent poll taken during the Higher Logic Super Forum SPARK conference in April says 61% of CS professionals sometimes use AI platforms alongside other systems, while 11% always leverage AI in various instances and workflows. But there are proven, compliant ways to drive impact with AI today.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 25, 2024

ServiceNow, a $150b market cap company, made this statement yesterday in their earnings call : “In Q4, our gen AI products drove the largest net new ACV contribution for our first full quarter of any of our new product family releases ever, including our original Pro SKU.” This has increased our developer innovation speed by 52%.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

Suddenly it seemed that generative AI might transform industries from education to marketing. However, getting from technological breakthrough to useful applications is far from straightforward. ☞ Click here to join the beta waitlist for our AI features or receive AI news from Intercom.

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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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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. Sundt brings more than 30 years of expertise as a technology leader to his new role, with a deep background in payments and transforming businesses with groundbreaking technology solutions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s impossible to talk about new technology without talking about human flourishing — every new technology from the plow to the microchip has typically been followed by a period of newfound wealth for consumers in the form of cheaper goods, improved productivity, and longer, healthier lives. We expect this time to be no different.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner David Haber talks with Marco Argenti, the chief information officer at Goldman Sachs, about bringing fintech processes into financial services, turning developers into clients, and how AI is a major inflection point in the history of technology. And then I started selling.

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IT World

APRIL 21, 2023

The evolution of generative AI models will further lower barriers to using low-code and no-code development tools, and potentially lead to the birth of a whole new class of intelligent developer technology.

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IT World

JUNE 15, 2023

The UK government has announced $68 million (£54 million) in new investments for the development of AI technology, including $39 million for the creation of a research and innovation ecosystem for responsible and trustworthy AI. To read this article in full, please click here

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USIO

JANUARY 12, 2024

REFERRAL PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT In the ever-evolving landscape of app technology and integrated payments, partnership referrals play a pivotal role in driving progress and creating synergies that benefit businesses and end-users alike. CodigoDelSur has established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the software development arena.

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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. Traditionally, product development followed a linear path. However, with AI, the rules have changed. How does one design a product experience in the fog of AI?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Machine learning’s demand for data has accelerated this movement because AI needs data to function. Data teams receive tickets from their internal customers & develop data products that serve both internal & external users, much like a classic product management & engineering team.

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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.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether it’s industry debates over business models and the actual definition of open , or governments actively discussing how to regulate models, seemingly everyone has an opinion on what it means for AI models to be open. But, yes, of course these technologies can be misused. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

While it may seem ironic, AI solutions may be our best answer to the decaying personalization and humanity of care in the US; as Vijay wrote in 2021, “technology can make human healthcare more human.” To be clear—the goal in creating new AI tools is not to replace clinicians. How can we change this trajectory?

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IT World

APRIL 6, 2023

A group of influential and informed tech types recently put forward a formal request that AI rollouts be paused for six months. I tend to agree with former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates that the focus should be on assuring AI reliability , not trying to pause everything. To read this article in full, please click here

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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

MAY 6, 2024

When it comes to the innovations and development of AI in today’s world, the sky is the limit. We are witnessing new AI technology and launches daily, and Mark Zuckerberg’s launch of the new Meta AI Assistant is the latest launch in this space. What is Meta AI? So, keep reading!

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. About 15 – 25% of tasks can be automated using AI. Sign up for free.

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Scytale

APRIL 15, 2024

If you’ve been following the growth of artificial intelligence, you’re likely aware that the EU’s new AI Act is set to officially come into effect at the end of May 2024. This groundbreaking legislation will regulate AI systems based on their risk potential. Think AI-assisted surgery or self-driving cars.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Senator Todd Young (R-IN) spoke with a16z General Partner Martin Casado at the American Dynamism Summit about the importance of open innovation and American leadership in AI, and why we need to support AI research at all levels — from the classroom to the war room. As part of that, you had this Senate AI Insight forum.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series –Commercializing AI in Healthcare. Enterprise healthcare tasks are highly complex and unforgiving to errors.

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SaaS Metrics

MARCH 25, 2024

Every day, technology is developing more and more, and we are witnessing it very closely. For example, AIs have just come out, and we can use them everywhere in our lives. As technology is evolving so much, it’s affecting. Whenever we have a problem, we ask them or consult them for ideas.

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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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IT World

JUNE 1, 2023

As generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard continue to evolve at a breakneck pace, raising questions around trustworthiness and even human rights, experts are weighing if or how the technology can be slowed and made more safe. To read this article in full, please click here

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Panintelligence

APRIL 3, 2024

Fueled by the need to stay competitive, there seems to be a rush to implement AI. For example, if you’re looking for enhanced Business Intelligence, you need to combine AI with human intuition. In a recent webinar with industry experts, we uncovered four key steps to successfully leveraging AI—which we'll dive into in this blog post.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2024

Because the research & development costs associated with software should be part of their cost of goods sold. So the costs of developing & maintaining the software are ongoing. For a period from December 9, 2009, to approximately March of 2016, technology companies produced nearly 5% free cash flow yields on average.

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IT World

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Meta has trained an AI agent to play a boardgame that involves chatting with other players to persuade them to support its strategies — and then betraying them.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Join our panelists from Khan Academy, PrismsVR, and Minecraft Education as we discuss the classroom of the future, and how important technologies including AI, XR, and gaming should play a role in it. 36:05 – Call to action for the classroom of 2050

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 9, 2024

This is where AI-generated headshots come in, offering a potentially revolutionary solution. AI Headshot Generator: A Modern Approach to Professional Photos Traditionally, obtaining professional headshots involved hiring photographers, scheduling sessions, and sometimes facing logistical challenges.

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Panintelligence

MAY 7, 2024

However, the journey to successfully implementing AI can appear complex and requires a well-thought-out strategy. In this blog post, we distill the key insights from our recent webinar on how to pilot AI successfully, providing a roadmap for businesses to navigate the adoption of AI technologies tailored to their unique needs and objectives.

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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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