SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2025

May Habib from Writer heads a full-stack generative AI company that combines large language models with microservices to build custom AI applications, agents, and workflows for enterprise clients. Writer is at the forefront of creating flexible, tailored AI solutions that integrate seamlessly into existing business processes.

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AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Technical Review 242

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

There isn’t just one model. Models built by OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have billions of dollars to invest in training these models, so you have more powerful engines under the hood at no cost to you. Today, it’s all about having enough raw physical power to power artificial intelligence.

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AI Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT Mobile 260

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2025

Joselyn Goldfein , Managing Director at Zeta Venture Partners, which invests in AI and data infrastructure-focused startups from inception through seed stage And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay!!

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Technical Review Artificial Intelligence AI Marketplace as a Service 168

Unbounce

JUNE 24, 2020

No incoming martech makes a better case for this sort of incremental innovation than artificial intelligence. Marketing and AI: A “Meet Cute” For marketers interested in learning what AI can do for them, right now , debates and philosophy about artificial intelligence can be heady stuff.

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Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning AI Search Marketing 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Their platform helps restaurant owners, who typically earn less than $50,000 annually in profit, create professional online presences without significant investment in time or resources. They’ve seen particular success in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate API documentation into practical implementations.

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AI Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Systems Review 189

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In a daring feat of economic analysis, I asked it to calculate if the after-tax returns of two ETFs were statistically significant & to compare the energy portfolios using the 13-Fs of a few hedge funds for investment ideas. It’s an approach to solving a computer science problem I never would have considered.

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Artificial Intelligence AI Engineering Investment 185

Tom Tunguz

JULY 10, 2023

Large language models enable fracking of documents. But LLMs do this beautifully, pumping value from one of the hardest places to mine. We are tinkering with deploying large language models on top of them. Historically, extracting value from unstructured text files has been difficult.

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Artificial Intelligence Systems Review Machine Learning Government 173

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2023

As machine learning becomes core to every product, engineering teams will restructure. In the past, the core engineering team & the data science/machine learning teams worked separately. Data science teams’ increased budget faces pressure from the office of the CFO to justify the investment.

ChatGPT 250

ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Engineering Machine Learning 250

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

A core question is whether these powerful reasoning models truly “generalize” well. In AI terminology, “generalizing” refers to a model’s ability to apply learned knowledge to new tasks or unseen data. However the pace of innovation in large language models is extraordinary.

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How To Buy Saas

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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Artificial Intelligence Underperforming Technical Team AI Search Scale 53

SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2023

At SaaStr Annual , he was joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou, Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini to discuss the new architecture for building Software-as-a-Service applications with data and machine learning at their core. You can no longer ask a million discovery questions.

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Artificial Intelligence AI ChatGPT Software Engineering 306

SaaStr

OCTOBER 11, 2024

They use a combination of existing models as well as proprietary models to ensure accuracy in their sensitive fields of healthcare and legal tech. When Jasper launched in 2019, it started with one model. Today, it runs about 39 models across its entire customer base, making it LLM agnostic.

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Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence Healthcare 167

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 8, 2019

Artificial Intelligence - yes, it’s a buzzword but it’s more than that. AI or Machine Learning is a new technology that will benefit nearly every type of sector and we’re still in the very earliest innings. Some sectors have hit their apogee and are declining. Others have grown by more than 3x.

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Artificial Intelligence Startup Blockchain Social Media 280

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2025

Why It Matters : This is forcing LPs to completely rethink their investment strategies and cash flow planning. Defense Tech Has Quietly Become a Major VC Category The Surprise : Defense tech VC investment jumped 2x in 2023 and stayed at that level in 2024 , with 15 active unicorns now valued at $50B collectively.

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Outsourcing Services Venture Capital Outsourced Development Data 162

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

First, large language models like GPT-3 are making AI accessible to the masses. These advanced models allow people to interact conversationally with technology. Universities are eager to incorporate large language models into curricula and instruction. Four themes resonated throughout the session.

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Artificial Intelligence Technical Cofounder AI Education 305

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

Join us as we uncover lessons from UiPath’s success in creating a new category within RPA Enterprise Automation – Robotic Process Automation – while navigating the challenges inherent in digital transformation powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.

Scale 245

Scale Artificial Intelligence Technical Review Software Review 245

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions. Our modern and intuitive SaaS platform combines our proprietary data and application layers into one vertically-integrated solution with advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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Benchmarks Artificial Intelligence Data Software Review 246

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Today, it is possible to speed up and optimize the writing process with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The AI platform learns through its work with the help of machine learning (ML). The customer can thus receive only the most important information on personal investments and goals.

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Artificial Intelligence Technical Review AI Search Technical Advisors 96

SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In my own portfolio , more of my investments had a record month in October than a rough month. CIOs’ top areas of increased investment for 2023 include “cyber and information security (66%), business intelligence/data analytics (55%) and cloud platforms (50%). So are we in some sort of downturn — or aren’t we?

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Forecasting Artificial Intelligence Software Business 299

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. Google has invested hundreds of millions into Anthropic , complementing its efforts with Google Brain.

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Artificial Intelligence AI AWS Cloud 240

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Artificial intelligence is radically redefining the customer service landscape. Here’s a look at how customer service chatbots can improve your service experience, and a few examples of intelligent bots that will inspire you to create your own. What is a customer service chatbot, and do I need one?

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AI Search Artificial Intelligence AI Scale 267

Tom Tunguz

JULY 24, 2024

Google is on a trajectory to invest $50 billion this year. Most large-scale AI products have yet to be built. Then we began to add routers, mixtures of experts, & small language models. Facebook and Google both announced very similar strategies of overinvesting in AI data centers.

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AI Artificial Intelligence AWS Innovation 306

How To Buy Saas

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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Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI Scale 52

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? How reliable is this investment? A Pricing Model Comparison A case study of three companies shows the nuance in pricing models.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 29, 2025

For example, machine learning models can forecast sales, optimize pricing, and evaluate investment scenarios in real time. Key benefits of AI-driven decision support include: Predictive Insights: Machine learning forecasts customer demand and market shifts by analyzing historical and real-time data.

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Artificial Intelligence Payment Services Payments SaaS Payments 59

Tom Tunguz

MAY 24, 2023

In the late 2010s, machine learning inflated demand. Nvidia has more than doubled its capex in 2023 & the latest earnings release suggested the business plans to invest more. In a decade, the business increased in value about 250x, compounding at about 74%. Nvidia’s most recent breakout occurred in the last two years.

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Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence B2C AI 298

Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These seem like perfect fits for LLM based applicatiosn. Perfect for a LLM! This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation. Altimeter is an investment adviser registered with the U.S. There are so many of these workflows out there today, and many of them are quite manual.

Systems Review 144

Systems Review Cloud AI Artificial Intelligence 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Don’t underestimate the investments you need to make here to be compelling to your customers. Another big investment during rapid growth is digital moments. You want to invest time and energy here so that partners are ready to talk to customers. Then, package that up into a narrative that makes sense.

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Scale AI Scaling Marketing 261

SaaStr

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Engineering resources: With thousands of engineers, companies like HubSpot can make substantial AI investments when they choose to 3. Proprietary data access: “We’ve got the zoom data, the calling data, the email data…If you’re a startup breaking in and you want to do some amazing AI work, it’s tricky.”

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AI Marketing SaaS Interviewing 284

Clouded Judgement

JULY 16, 2024

The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions. In addition to our financial and operational capabilities, the Digital Finance Cloud embeds powerful applied AI and machine learning technologies to further enhance our offering to customers.

Benchmarks 295

Benchmarks Data Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 295

SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2024

Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic added: “ For example, one large bank that we were talking to came to us and said, ‘we’ve talked to everybody in our company, and we have 500 different use cases that we want to apply large language models to.’ ’ That’s really incredible.

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AI Enterprise Artificial Intelligence compliance 292

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The winner(s) will receive funding from the Mayfield AI Garage, who are at the forefront of investing in cutting-edge tools at the intersection of SaaS and AI. You could win $500K – $5M in funding from Mayfield AI Garage!! That’s right. This is epic opportunity to showcase your AI Startup. Win $500k – up to $5M in funding.

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AI Startup Innovation Investment 293

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2024

By using AI, would my company lose its data as employees passed sensitive queries to large language models? ROI (return-on-investment) has replaced fear. At the end of every AI investment conversation, the champion will have to answer the question : what has our GPU done for us today? AI is expensive.

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VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) Artificial Intelligence AI Cloud 219

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2024

AI is driving a broader behavior change : summarize, then determine whether to invest the effort to read. I upload academic papers to a large language model, read the conclusion, & then badger the AI with questions, especially comparative ones. Within my email editor, I summarize long emails with the same command.

Artificial Intelligence 147

Artificial Intelligence AI Search AI Software Review 147

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. You need to invest in experimentation frameworks, and you have to balance that with the numbers. Why is data so hard? There are two parts to the challenges data poses. What about ROI?

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AI Search AI Scale Artificial Intelligence 281

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market. Which of these markets are growing the fastest for investment dollars?

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