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The Innovations Free Compute and Storage Unleash

Tom Tunguz

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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5 Predictions for 2020

Tom Tunguz

The ecosystem continues to innovate but the second killer app (currency being the first), hasn't yet been found. Look no further than AWS Re:Invent where Amazon announced an entire suite of Machine Learning tools that compete with nearly every player in the ecosystem in every level of the stack.

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Keeping data secure in Fintech

Panintelligence

As innovation in Fintech SaaS increases, so does the pressure to safeguard sensitive data. But Andy says Fintech SaaS is hitting a big challenge: mixing innovation with tight security. Fintech companies are all about pushing tech boundaries, but the more they innovate, the bigger the risk of sophisticated cyber threats.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. It has been an eventful, often fraught decade in tech, then, and that’s not even to mention artificial intelligence or machine learning, Alexa or Siri, Bitcoin or WeWork, Edward Snowden or GDPR.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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Top 10 Trends for Data in 2024

Tom Tunguz

Whether it’s data being used inside applications, feeding machine learning models, or downstream analysis, companies are increasingly reliant on this data, and that’s not changing. Executive teams and boards are demanding innovation with LLMs and data. 80% of data is unstructured within organizations.

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Leveraging AI in SaaS: Current Trends and Future Directions

How To Buy Saas

Despite bringing innovations, the industry of that time faced tremendous upfront costs and restricted accessibility. 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. That established the foundation for the SaaS model in technology.