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What Happens When AI Performance Asymptotes?

Tom Tunguz

This is a chart of many recent AI models’ performance according to a broadly accepted benchmark called MMLU. But pretty quickly, the infrastructure layer should commoditize, just as it did in the cloud where three vendors command 65% market share : Amazon Web Services, Azure, & Google Cloud Platform. 3/15/22 175 0.7

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A Look Back at Q4 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. It looks at the YoY dollar change in quarterly revenue from the hyperscalers (just looking at Azure / AWS because the data goes back further) going back a few years. net retention and CAC payback).

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SaaS Rule of 40 Drivers Using KeyBanc’s 2021 SaaS Survey

SaaStr

The “Rule of 40” is one of the most commonly cited valuation benchmarks in SaaS for both public and private companies. While SaaS is an amazingly transparent community with abundant benchmarking resources, there are much fewer publicly available studies that allow an analysis of the underlying drivers of “Rule of 40.”

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A Look Back at Q1 '23 Public Cloud Software Earnings

Clouded Judgement

Through these interactions, I’ve built up mental benchmarks for metrics on which I place extra emphasis. On the Microsoft earnings call they said (related to Azure): “But at some point, workloads just can't be optimized much further. net retention and CAC payback). My interpretation is we’re in the bottoming phase.

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AI Food Fights in the Enterprise

Andreessen Horowitz

03:08] Data wars [04:28] Big vs. small LLMs [08:13] Fine-tuning [13:52] Open source AI [17:51] Benchmarks are b t [19:30] Why Ali isn’t afraid of AI Why is it so hard for enterprise to adopt AI? It will be like AWS, GCP, and Azure. I kinda think all the benchmarks are b t. Ali: I think the answer is closer to the latter.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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SaaS 2020 Planning: Global Market Trends

OPEXEngine

Microsoft’s recent deal with SAP to bring SAP cloud customers onto the Azure platform, together with similar deals with Oracle and VMWare, gives AWS a run for its money. We have seen greater efficiency and increased productivity in the use of capital and labor in our benchmarking over the past five years.

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