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The current state of AI adoption resembles the early days of cloud: great infrastructure exists, but there’s a lack of applications to use it effectively. Everyone is trying to DIY without knowing how.

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MAY 27, 2025

Artificial intelligence is everywhere from smart content generators to coding assistants and its changing how SaaS products are built and marketed. Terms like Large Language Model (LLM) and AI tool often get tossed around interchangeably, but they arent the same thing. and What is LLM orchestration?.

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This strategy has yielded: Higher revenue per user : Enterprise customers pay significantly more than consumers Stickier relationships : B2B contracts provide more predictable revenue Technical differentiation : Constitutional AI and safety features appeal to enterprises Strategic partnerships : Deep integrations with Google Cloud and Amazon Competitive (..)

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MAY 29, 2025

The generative AI revolution has driven explosive growth in Large Language Model (LLM) applications. more efficiently, developers rely on LLM orchestration frameworks. What Is an LLM Orchestration Framework? This Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern enhances accuracy on private or large documents.

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JULY 4, 2025

Enterprise AI Adoption Is Happening 1000x Faster Than Cloud The Key Insight: Unlike cloud adoption, which took over a decade, AI is being embraced immediately by enterprises. “It’s going 1000x faster than cloud adoption because everyone’s using it,” Datta noted.

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JULY 9, 2025

Instead of staying narrowly focused on gaming, they realized their parallel processing architecture could power entirely different use cases: Scientific computing Cryptocurrency mining Early machine learning workloads Professional visualization The B2B Parallel : Think Stripe expanding from payments to the entire financial stack, or Twilio growing (..)

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APRIL 13, 2025

Beyond Traditional Boundaries: Rippling’s Three Clouds What makes Rippling fascinating as a compound startup is how it has expanded far beyond its initial HR focus. The company now has three distinct “clouds”: HR Cloud : Traditional HR and payroll functions.

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MAY 28, 2025

Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and open-source equivalents are now powering new featuresfrom intelligent chatbots to automated content creation. However, simply wiring LLM APIs into your application can create complexity. In effect, it makes managing multiple LLMs predictable and reliable.

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MAY 26, 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a cutting-edge approach in AI that combines large language models (LLMs) with real-time information retrieval to produce more accurate and context-aware outputs. Think of a standard LLM as a very smart student who has learned a lot of general information.

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JULY 3, 2025

Oracle Cloud Infra signs $30B+ year deal with OpenAI 🚀Many ways to benefit from AI 😪And many ways to lose from it If Oracle can find a way … pic.twitter.com/1rOZrzaRw4 — Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ billion in Q4 FY2025 Cloud Services became Oracle’s largest business, with non-GAAP operating income up 14% in constant currency to $5.7

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JANUARY 10, 2025

They’ve retrofitted their existing Cloud infrastructure to support this vision: “In the past year, we’ve retrofitted our 300 cities, 500+ data centers with GPUs, over 170 of them have them today.” ” Their goal is to use to AI to further support the use and development of AI in SaaS and Cloud companies.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. These seem like perfect fits for LLM based applicatiosn. Perfect for a LLM! If you’re building companies in these spaces, I’d love to chat to learn more! Not the best start to cloud software earnings season!

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JUNE 16, 2025

Usage-based pricing still dominates with CIOs uncomfortable with outcome-based models. The Evaluation Reality : While internal benchmarks and golden datasets remain critical, enterprises increasingly reference external evaluations as their first filter, similar to how they use Gartner for traditional software purchases.

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APRIL 1, 2025

No one has a true crystal ball when it comes to Cloud spend in the coming years, but the leaders have a lot of data. It’s the #1 Private Equity firm for B2B and SaaS companies and it surveyed 501 Cloud and SaaS buyers. Thoma Bravo is one of them.

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JUNE 2, 2025

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MAY 29, 2025

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JUNE 29, 2025

And it’s being driven by one primary factor: artificial intelligence. The AI Platform Play That Actually Works Here’s what Palantir figured out that many others missed: AI isn’t just about models—it’s about operationalizing intelligence at enterprise scale. The numbers tell the story: U.S.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

Naturally, it includes any cloud services, software, and even hardware. Shadow artificial intelligence (AI) apps Your employees are no doubt using public large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini, as well as chatbots, copilots and a host of other AI tools.

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JUNE 18, 2025

This surging investment spans AI chips, cloud platforms, and smart software. For SaaS and tech firms, the message is clear: mastering the full-stack AI (data pipelines, compute, ML models and application layers) is critical for innovation and growth. Compute Hardware: GPUs/TPUs and cloud/edge infrastructure for training and inference.

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MARCH 6, 2025

While AI has been in the DNA of fintech companies for years, recent advancements in large language models and generative AI have created entirely new user models and experiences. ” Learning from Failures Both leaders shared candid lessons from past failures. ” The biggest impact? .”

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Panintelligence

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Scytale

MARCH 12, 2025

With a background in computer science and a passion for emerging technology, Victor has driven innovation in AI, machine learning, and immersive media. Backed by top investors like Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, and Mark Cuban, Synthesia has raised 51 million and is trusted by global giants such as Reuters, Nike, BBC, and Amazon.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. They led a several hundred person team that ran the predictive machine learning that personalized the Yahoo homepage. Why HG Insights? Thinking about AI for your sales team but unsure where to start? Back when that page mattered.

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Scytale

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Compliance trends in 2025 continue to be influenced by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and cloud computing. If training data is compromised or poisoned with other inputs, it can lead to biased or compromised AI models.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Salesforce: A Pioneer in Cloud CRM Salesforce, founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, was a trailblazer in bringing CRM to the cloud. Through numerous acquisitions (ExactTarget, Tableau, Slack, and more), Salesforce built an expansive ecosystem of cloud services. Basic email integration available in Sales Cloud.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Schedule a Demo Today The Shift Toward Consumption-Based Models Usage-based models, also known as metered billing , align costs with customer activity. Whether its cloud storage, software access, or other services, customers appreciate paying only for what they use.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 18, 2025

From cloud-based applications to emerging technologies, SaaS platforms give you instant access to whatever you need for your game development project. For instance, most SaaS tools harness the power of the cloud, making it easy for developers to access it from anywhere. In fact, you can rent SaaS tools and get started any day.

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APRIL 29, 2025

FastSpring continuously monitors transaction flow via machine learning models that are under the oversight of an enterprise-grade team of infrastructure and payments experts. Moreover, we have an enterprise-grade engineering team that has built and maintains a scalable and resilient cloud-native stack using AWS.

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JUNE 10, 2025

Tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude and others (logos shown above) use advanced large language models (LLMs) to generate text, images, and speech. Pro is a next-gen LLM especially suitable for enterprise users already in Google’s ecosystem. Our Verdict Gemini 2.5 Pricing Google Gemini 2.5

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JULY 16, 2025

While terms like “growth hacking” and “machine learning” dominate headlines, data governance. Under the hood, one discipline plays a quiet yet critical role in enabling growth, maintaining customer trust, and avoiding legal landmines: data governance.

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User Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

Amperity Amperity is an AI‑first CDP that uses advanced machine learning to unify even the most fragmented customer data into a single, real‑time view. AudienceStream CDP: Join real‑time, unified customer profiles across channels with machine‑learning–powered identity resolution.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2024

So yes, while it’s true that challenges are real for those in the right-hand column above – overall cloud spend is still up 20%. Google Cloud , Azure, and GitLab, all tied directly or indirectly to AI, are seeing massive acceleration. But Google Cloud, Azure, and GitLab are all benefiting and on fire.

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BetterCloud

APRIL 15, 2025

Last week, our CEO, Jesse Levin, had the pleasure of speaking with Rentokil Initial CIO (BetterCloud customer), Mark Purcell, on theCUBE podcast with Rob Strechay for Google Cloud Next 2025. With insights on usage and costs of their existing applications, organizations can free up spend to redirect the spend on new AI investments.

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JUNE 30, 2025

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2025

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2025

ARR data cloud leader is adapting to AI disruption, the evolution of technical sales, and what it really takes to build strategic partnerships that scale. We featured an unprecedented dynamic: Jeremy Burton sits on Snowflake’s board while simultaneously running Observe, a company built 100% on Snowflake’s platform.

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