IT World

MAY 17, 2023

While Apple’s assistive technology announcements this week are important, the question that remains unaswered is just how much they rely on the company's powerful Neural Engine. The Neural Engine comprises a collection of specialized computational cores that exist on Apple Silicon chips.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2023

Generative AI has taken the world by storm, and VCs and SaaS founders are looking at new opportunities it can bring. Even considering the more conservative fundraising market in 2023, there are opportunities for startups to get investor attention with AI. Startups must determine an action plan with AI if they hope to grow.

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IT World

MAY 16, 2023

Amazon is working on infusing generative AI features akin to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard AI to its shopping application and website in an effort to provide a more conversational experience, job postings on the company’s career section indicate. To read this article in full, please click here

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IT World

MARCH 28, 2023

A new tussle between Microsoft and its partners that use Bing’s search index data has highlighted the company’s intensions of trying to lead the race for generative AI, experts say. To read this article in full, please click here

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2023

The possibilities to automate and streamline processes for support reps seem endless, but the success of generative AI in this space will ultimately depend on its ability to deliver real value for customer service teams and customers alike. If not, well, it’s just a toy – a fun one, but a toy nonetheless. What have you learned?

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 30, 2023

As generative AI captivates Startupland, startups will do what they have always done: integrate new technology to build transformative businesses. Incumbents have seized the moment with Microsoft, Adobe, & others integrating generative AI into their products quickest. What are these moats? That’s the moat.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2024

Use the links below at each session’s designated time to tune-in live and join the Zoom session room. Or you can also watch the livestreams on the SaaStr YouTube Channel. Speaker: Brian Thomas, CPO @ Customer.io Speaker: Brian Thomas, CPO @ Customer.io Speaker: Brian Thomas, CPO @ Customer.io

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IT World

MARCH 21, 2023

A growing number of tech firms have unveiled generative AI tools based on LLMs for business use to automate application tasks. LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence trained on a massive trove of articles, books, or internet-based resouerces and other input to produce human-like responses to natural language inputs.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The generative AI technology — or chatbots — have been overhyped and in some cases even claimed to have sentience or a form of consciousness. The technology has also had its share of embarassing missteps.

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IT World

MARCH 2, 2023

Though it’s mostly a front-end for the Bing search engine at this point, eventually it could change how we interact with our computers. Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author. Microsoft is rolling out an update to Windows 11 that adds ChatGPT.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime , an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“Our own research as well as external studies show as much as 70% improvement in productivity using generative AI for specific work tasks.” ” Compare with ServiceNow’s data that shows engineering gains of 50%. If this data point is real, then AI could very well add several percentage points to GDP.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Most recently, Sundt worked at IBM helping financial service customers build roadmaps for adopting Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI through his Design Thinking workshops. Sundt will assume responsibility for all technology and engineering operations at Stax.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Every Customer is a Design Partner - Leading Your Sales Motion with Sales Engineering. I argued that the best sales processes are sales engineering sales. The 4 Questions Startups Should Ask Themselves about Building with Generative AI.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But this AI wave is slightly different. AI has been around for 30-40 years now. What’s different is the aspect of generative AI. Instead of using AI tools only to analyze and automate things, it’s being used to create content. AI is enabling businesses to do a lot more than they could on human power alone.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform February 6, 2020 MUNICH – ( THE SAASGARAGE ) – Loyalty Prime, an international provider of enterprise loyalty program solutions has closed its 5.5 million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software.

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IT World

MARCH 8, 2023

DuckDuckGo, the search engine focused on user privacy, announced today that it is rolling out an AI-powered instant answer service, which it calls DuckAssist, as part of a larger plan to integrate AI across its product lineup. To read this article in full, please click here

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 14, 2024

Engineering teams have a wide swath of choices for frontend frameworks and libraries, such as Next.js, Flutter, shadcn/ui, and Tailwind. Today, more mature code-generation technology, coupled with advanced image models, has dramatically shortened the journey from a mere idea to a fully operational application.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Though companies offer some customized features like recommendation engines, they haven’t yet had the technology to deeply personalize their services. But generative AI will change this and open up a massive opportunity for consumer startups.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2024

Most expect to see CS emerging as a growth engine. Karen Budell, Chief Marketing Officer, Totango Generative AI will be an evolving partner for CS Businesses will depend on CS teams to drive revenue growth from the customer base.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Generative AI is spawning new companies and accelerating existing ones. Rebecca has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a JD/MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. In Q3 we saw a 45% QoQ decrease in fundraising deals getting done; that’s the lowest we’ve seen in the past five years. #3.

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IT World

MAY 9, 2023

Enterprise data management vendor Informatica will be adding generative AI capabilities to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) via the addition of ClaireGPT and AI Copilot. To read this article in full, please click here

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IT World

MARCH 1, 2023

By now you’ve likely read the reviews of the new generative AI chatbot embedded in Microsoft’s Bing search engine : how in an exchange with New York Times reporter Kevin Roose it turned into a lovelorn stalker , professing its love for him and trying to get him to leave his wife, or when it told an Associated Press reporter he was ugly and had bad (..)

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, in Wall Street (1987) Leveraged Buyouts became “a thing” in the 1980s thanks to a form of financial engineering called junk debt. Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. billion, against almost $2.8

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. Alex: Immad has strong feelings about AI replacing engineers. Mind sharing?

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Sixteen Ventures

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Generative AI, like ChatGPT, is a powerful technology that has revolutionized the way we approach various fields, including writing, coding, music composition, and even Customer Success. ChatGPT uses artificial intelligence to generate high-quality content based on prompts, enabling people to accomplish far more in much less time.

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Unbounce

JUNE 15, 2023

With the possibility of AI providing custom-generated responses to digital search queries, folks might soon be less motivated to click through to your website to find the answer they’re looking for. Why bother sifting through endless search engine results when you can have AI explain what you wanna know directly?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Keep reading to learn what the four most common SaaS assumptions are, and watch Adam knock each one down with the power of generative AI. Now, it’s time to knock over all of these beliefs with generative AI. Sales Engineers The key to selling SaaS is a demo or test environment customized for the customer.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The output shattered expectations – even for other builders and researchers within generative AI – sparking widespread speculation and awe. And are explicit 3D modeling techniques or game engines at play? How does Sora achieve such realism?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Typically, you have to have some kind of sales team or sales engine to run before you can hire someone to run it. A first-time founder of a Generative AI startup is struggling with the question of going vertical vs. horizontal. But it can be distracting for engineering, product, and GTM teams. Is that a good approach?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 12, 2024

He founded Nervana Systems (acquired by Intel) and MosaicML (acquired by Databricks), and now serves as vice president of generative AI at Databricks. From chips to models, there are few people with a better pulse on how enterprises are using AI. That was hard and expensive, and you had to do a bunch of ML engineering.

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Totango

MAY 17, 2024

Leverage recording integrations to simplify account summary workflows, then use generative AI tools to craft summaries of the output. As your team and customer base grow, AI-powered tools can help maintain personalization at scale while saving time and effort. Tools like Chorus and Gong.io

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IT World

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Setting the bar The assumption is that ChatGPT tech is already miles ahead of Siri and other smart engines, that it challenges Google in search (though Bard may help the latter fight back), and will give Microsoft’s Bing a cheap victory in that space. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2023

The speaker also mentions that for engineering-heavy organizations, internal wikis or platforms like Confluence may work well, while for other teams like marketing or operations, different approaches may be necessary. They suggest considering prompt engineering as a workaround for dealing with limited data.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Focus on performance management of your product and engineering teams as early indicators for what R&D investments are working, and which aren’t. Many companies have good reasons not to conform to R&D benchmarks, especially if they’re creating new categories or building at the forefront of a new technology like generative AI.

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Totango

APRIL 18, 2023

Leveraging the power of AI, we can take a big step forward to boost productivity, reduce the time it takes to accomplish tasks, and adapt more quickly to new goals and contexts – and thus make customer success a significant growth engine for our companies.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 17, 2023

The acceleration in the Text AI space has a precedent, from way back in August 2022, in what I call the Art AI space. Text AI and Art AI are close relatives within the AI family tree, both falling under the branch called Generative AI. where a diagram is integral to the question. Mind-blowing.

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