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The future of search is being reinvented with generative AI

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In December 2022, just a month after the introduction of ChatGPT, Google understood the risk as well and launched a ‘code red’ – a company-wide emergency effort to tackle generative AI and come back with an adequate response to ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing. Much of it today belongs to Algolia.

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Generative AI: Opportunity or the end of media as we know it?

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The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

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New space companies – If we are entering a future with access to space being as routine and inexpensive as commercial air travel, shipping or trucking… what new businesses does that unlock? Looking for companies creating tools to facilitate construction of or fine tuning models.

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Disrupting Google

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1) A new technology + (2) A new business model If we only have one, the incumbents can usually adapt. They can plug the new tech into the existing business model. Or, they can revert the old technology into a new business model. Each time they sold the new tech in the old business model.

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The Real Promise of Gen AI: It’s in the Apps, Not the Pipes

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For example voice interfaces, enabled by the latest model by chatgpt, 4o. Cost Structure Changes : AI can automate numerous processes, significantly reducing operational costs. Native GenAi companies should leverage that cost advantage. AI-driven games and virtual worlds. Content – eg.

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Deep Fake Love & AI Girlfriends

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The entire mating process and the business models which have underpinned it have changed more radically in the past 20 years than they did in the previous 2000 years. The AI Girl on Call The business model is just as you’d expect it to be: a classic freemium model. Things are now much more real than that.