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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. The company raised a $ 25M series A in July 2022.

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

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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 ”. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ?

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Requests for Startups in 2024

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Eliminating middlemen in healthcare – from using AI to automate repetitive human jobs to exploring new and better business models for providing care. Looking for companies creating tools to facilitate construction of or fine tuning models. What if the next generation of entertainment is personalized generations?

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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 future of service marketplaces is AI

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Generative AI is well on the way to becoming not just faster and cheaper, but better in some cases than what humans create by hand. Creative AI or Creative automation is increasing at a rapid pace. The generative AI application layer (Source: Sequoia ). Sonya Huang, Pat Grady, and GTP-3, Sequoia.

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

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New Business Models : AI enables innovative business models, such as offering AI-driven services or selling the “work” performed by AI agents rather than traditional products or services, where the user still needs to operate some kind of dashboard/product. 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.