VC Cafe

JUNE 26, 2023

In the early days of the web, companies like AltaVista, Excite, WebCrawler and others competed in becoming the search engine of choice. But two years after Google came to the fore in 1998, Google became the number one search engine and “Googling” has become synonymous with web search.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time. Smart Contracts – Powering the internet-native financial system, smart contract networks could generate fees of $450bn in 2030.

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VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

There’s an interesting thing happening in the generative AI world. More and more, established companies are leaning into generative AI by either adding generative AI features to their existing suite of tools or partnering with AI companies (mostly OpenAI or the open source HuggingFace) to launch entirely new products.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

Most of the companies that raised these mega rounds are relatively early stage in terms of product and monetisation (if at all) and about half of the companies that raised large sums, are developing LLMs, which generally requires deep pockets to cover 1) cloud costs, 2) expensive deep learning engineers 3) get the data to train the models.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

And not a particular sector, but AI startups, in particular generative AI attracted close to $50 billion in funding last year, globally. Most of that funding went to foundational models like OpenAI, Anthropic and Inflection AI which collectively raised $18 billion in 2023. Generative AI is game changer.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Power Recommendation Engines. An AI can provide recommendations based on user behaviors used in ecommerce to provide accurate suggestions of products to users for future purchases based on their shopping history. Generative Design of Physical Products. AI/ML in Collection. AI Attack Surfaces.

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