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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. Google’s ranking which is driven partly by SEO).

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Generative AI and the exponential growth of content

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Generative AI now has the potential to exponentially grow the quantity of content created. Articles, ads, images, videos, voice, graphs, 3D objects, music, scientific papers… all can be created today with AI. Base10 includes 300 startups in their generative AI landscape (source).

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Generative AI: How does it affect HBS entrepreneurs?

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Among these are the Lean Startup Method, Business Model Canvas, and Design Thinking*. Of the respondents, 70% acknowledged employing generative AI tools at some stage of their entrepreneurial journey, with chatbot assistants being the most popular tool mentioned (including ChatGPT and Claude). LinkedIn, 20 June 2023.

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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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Cutting Through the AI Noise: How Startups Can Stand Out in a Crowded Market

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The breakneck speed of AI advancement is one of those areas where the stream of information is so constant and so dense, that it’s very hard to process it all, let alone STAND OUT in the crowd. This creates a challenge, but also an opportunity for startups in the generative AI space.

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How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024

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Fresh data from 15,000+ SAFEs signed last year (source: Carta ) Technology makes it possible to do more with less – LLMs, generative AI have are rapidly changing the game with all kinds of automations, from coding to content creation. We’d like to see that the relevant functions are covered (who’s writing code?

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