How To Buy Saas

JUNE 18, 2025

This fuels a robust ecosystem of AI chips (Nvidia, AMD), cloud AI services (AWS Sagemaker, Azure AI, Google Cloud AI), and SaaS integration (Salesforce Einstein, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Adobe Firefly). AWS Trainium2 & Ultracluster supercomputer details unveiled; embeds 64 Trainium chips, used by Anthropic + Apple trials.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These seem like perfect fits for LLM based applicatiosn. Perfect for a LLM! They each have some of the largest cloud businesses in the world in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud respectively. There are so many of these workflows out there today, and many of them are quite manual. What do all of these have in common?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

The Infrastructure Math Is Unprecedented The Capital Intensity Is Off The Charts: Big Six tech CapEx: $212B annually (63% YoY growth) Microsoft AI business: $13B run-rate (175% YoY growth) NVIDIA data center revenue: $39B quarterly (78% YoY growth) Amazon AWS CapEx as % of revenue: 49% (vs. 80% cheaper than predecessor, costs 0.2%

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

4 Learnings on Snowflake’s Future Direction The CFO Test is Coming: As Snowflake bills become the “second largest after AWS” for many enterprises, the pressure to prove ROI intensifies dramatically. Success is measured not just by data storage and processing, but by demonstrable business value creation from that data.

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2025

It’s the same psychological principle that made AWS dominant. Customers trusted AWS partly because they knew she could leave if needed. When they can easily export their data, they’re more confident investing deeply in your platform. That trust led to deeper, stickier relationships.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

2025 in LLMs so far Speaker: Simon Willison ( SimonWillison.net ) – Session video I’m a huge fan of Simon’s, and here he’s in fine form—fine enough that this presentation won best-of-conference.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2025

With a background that includes leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and Lenovo, Fred brings a wealth of experience in building high-performing teams and driving revenue growth. Startup to watch DocUnlock – launched publicly with incredible traction, over 100% NRR through zero churn and multiple upgrades and expansions.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

LLMs Transform the Stack : Large language models transform data in many ways. If you’re curious about the evolution of the LLM stack or the requirements to build a product with LLMs, please see Theory’s series on the topic here called From Model to Machine.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. Adam came up with the wildest idea he could think of for an app and used Anthropc, a large language model company, to help develop the idea. What does that mean?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Then we began to add routers, mixtures of experts, & small language models. Now we’re realizing the LLM architecture isn’t the best at planning work : reinforcement learning is better & must be integrated. AWS & others have stopped charging to move data. Both have decreased switching costs.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2024

Culture Structure You want a culture of checking results and having metrics to evaluate those results from the LLM or a more traditional model. Historically, Cloud platforms like AWS and Azure help with the sporadic needs of renting a GPU for a few hours for training vs. long-term use, which would cost thousands of dollars.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Perhaps not coincidentally, Snowflake announced a deepened partnership with Nvidia to offer customers models & training on Nvidia’s Nemo platform. Most major cloud players have picked an LLM partner & perhaps will choose multiple. Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Drift brings Conversational Marketing, Conversational Sales and Conversational Service into a single platform that integrates chat, email and video and powers personalized experiences with artificial intelligence (AI) at all stages of the customer journey.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2020

This modern architecture for data analysis, operational metrics, and machine learning enables companies to process data in new ways. The conference features talks from practitioners and open-source leaders from the ecosystem from Netflix, Microsoft, Expedia, AWS, and Preset.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Cloud Data Lakes are the future of large scale data analysis , and the more than 5000 registrants to the first conference substantiate this massive wave. Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, Global Vice President for AWS Storage will deliver one of the keynotes. This time, the conference will build on the foundation from last year’s event.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

The number of patents filed in 2021 in Artificial Intelligence was 30x the number published six years earlier. We’re on the cusp of a golden age in AI, and the lesson learned from Cloud was that Cloud sped up the pace of development by a lot. Thinking back through Cloud and mobile, what can you learn from them?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Currently, there are 3 primary options available to implement AI in a company: Cloud or LLM providers: Large cloud providers, like AWS, Google, or Microsoft, all provide services to implement generative AI in a secure way in the cloud.

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User Pilot

MAY 10, 2023

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our everyday lives, and marketing is no different, with several examples of AI in marketing today. This article examines what artificial intelligence in marketing looks like today. This article examines what artificial intelligence in marketing looks like today.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 27, 2025

The era of large language models (LLMs) is booming. In 2025, foundation models or generative AIs like GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, and open-source LLaMA are reshaping AI research, software development, and SaaS products. 405B) ranks 2nd in math/reasoning, 4th in coding, 1st in instruction-following among open models.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Raw silicon (chips like Nvidia bought in large quantities to build out infra to service upcoming demand). Model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc as companies start building out AI). When they started using large language models from OpenAI, the gross margin on the same product went to -100%!

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IT World

MAY 10, 2023

The generative AI platform comes with a suite of tools for tuning large language models, a data store built on lakehouse architecture, and an AI governance toolkit.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Official Unintelligence – While artificial intelligence has huge potential for improving sales planning, forecasting accuracy, and new rep ramp time, we’re not there yet. At the US Open, IBM promoted to use of artificial intelligence to find match highlights based on audience noise levels, but that’s only one data point.

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IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Amazon Web Services has expanded the capabilities of its Amazon SageMaker machine learning toolkit to address a number of challenges that enterprises confront when trying to operationalize machine learning, from model organization, training, and optimization to monitoring the performance of models in production.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning. When I worked at Google in 2005, we would test individual machine learning models one or two at a time.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And if you think about AWS, if you think about the rise of cloud data warehousing, that is a big technology change and a big game changer for a lot of companies. Suddenly, Alex had gained access to a quantitative look at who might poach his leads, which in turn now allows him to prioritize his competitive intelligence and messaging.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

I asked ChatGPT how many price changes AWS has made to S3 since it’s inception in 2006, and the answer it gave me was 65. Here’s what they said “F or Llama 2 and Llama 3, it's correct that the license restricts using any part of the Llama models, including the response outputs to train another AI model (LLM or otherwise).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Machine learning can get the right message or recommendation out in a responsive way – not just from the customer’s next best action, but from the sales perspective, too. Just from a platform perspective, we can look at it: everybody knows from the AWS perspective how inexpensive it is to go to market.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

And so, what happened is I was working on this program on artificial intelligence in medicine that had originated at Stanford under Ted Shortliffe, who was extremely well known, even back then, for building one of the first expert systems to diagnose blood-bacterial infections. Like, this is not anything like artificial intelligence.

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User Pilot

JULY 14, 2024

As you advance to this position, you can also choose to transition into a data analyst or BI consultant role depending on your interest: Data Scientist : If you’re passionate about statistics, machine learning, and predictive modeling, you may transition into a data scientist role.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 25, 2022

Examples of cost management software include in-platform cost optimization modules like GCP Billing and AWS Cost Explorer. Financial Modeling Tools As well as dedicated cost management software, another key component of the FinOps toolkit is a powerful financial modeling tool like Flightpath Finance.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Most interestingly, we’ll discuss how artificial intelligence has improved the operation of SaaS businesses over the years and what to expect next. Moreover, there were slower innovation cycles compared to the cloud-based SaaS model that we know now, thanks to the advent of smart neural networks. Mobile-friendly design.

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IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2019

At its AWS re:Invent 2019 event, the company acknowledged that computing power can be more useful when it’s closer to home, announcing three new services for reducing latency, including a mini-cloud you can house in your own data center. Get the latest cloud computing insights by signing up for our newsletter. ]

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Suddenly, the LLM is spitting out your code or your source. You want to build your own LLM from scratch? They can do it; they’ve done it for large customers. It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Who has the largest LLM? There’s a place for the Cisco routers and for LLM and so on.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years. Buyers aren’t locked into long-term purchases the same way they were with on-premises solutions. There’s more competition and more choices for software buyers.

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User Pilot

JULY 25, 2024

However, with the rise of cloud storage and machine learning trends, you may need to handle tasks specific to certain tools, such as: Apply machine learning algorithms to develop predictive models, automate data analysis tasks, and gain deeper insights from complex datasets.

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ReSci

JANUARY 23, 2018

Author: Avi Sanadhya, ReSci Platform Engineering Team At Retention Science we deliver personalized marketing campaigns powered by machine learning to drive a deeper level of customer engagement. The post Serverless with AWS Lambda: Reducing metrics reporting lag from hours to seconds at ReSci appeared first on ReSci.

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