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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 8 – AI – Chris Lynch and Nand Mulchandani

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. It’s a bunch of vertically integrated snowflake applications with a mouse and a keyboard and a screen.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Classic computers are designed to do anything a human explicitly tells them to do. The CPUs (Central Processing Units) that write and run these Classic Computer applications all have the same basic design (architecture). The CPUs are designed to handle a wide range of tasks quickly in a serial fashion. design, etc.

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem – Explained

Steve Blank

Those companies and government agencies then design the chips into systems and devices (e.g. Yet it is a business that manipulates materials an atom at a time and its factories cost 10s of billions of dollars to build. (By Taken from the bottom up these semiconductor industry segments are: Chip Intellectual Property (IP) Cores.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

Steve Blank

Different market opportunities present radically different startup risks and costs. You don’t need to worry about any Intellectual Property (IP) issues. Verticals Are Different I began to realize that entrepreneurs (and their professors) act like every vertical market and industry has the same set of rules.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital). in seed round in November.

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Investing in Generative AI tools

VC Cafe

IP issues, malicious use, future regulatory risk – Midjourney. So how can Generative AI startups compete given these platform dependency, competition and IP risks? We are likely see more specialisation i.e. text for doctors/lawyers, design for commerce/gaming etc. It’s a bit of a Catch-22.

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

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“A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living” Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans. ” Eric Feng. ” Eric Feng. Take Twitch for example.