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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Commercial open source companies – being open source is a powerful way to gain developer adoption and sell to enterprises a lot sooner. Andreessen Horowitz Consumer Team Opportunities for startups I’m a big fan of the content A16Z has been publishing on generative AI over time. trillion by 2030.

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The Evolution of Tech Wars: Past, Present, and Future

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App Store Wars: Apple dominated the app store wars, building a walled garden around its App Store and generating significant revenue from app sales and in-app purchases. We are seeing some of this play out in the generative AI space, where the cloud providers are active investors to attract future revenue.

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Generative AI will really take off when it moves from playful to useful

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Generative AI will really become magic when it moves from 'playful' to 'useful' – we will use multiple generative AI tools at work in the future, like we use grammarly and canned responses today… AI will become more vertical, and specific per role — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) November 5, 2022.

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How Generative AI is Going to Change Your Life and Mess Everything Up in the Process

This is going to be BIG.

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. That doesn’t even scrape the surface of the issues around deepfakes and generating images of others. That’s why I’m bullish on creator tools like Highnote.

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Israel Generative AI predictions for 2024

VC Cafe

In November 2022 I published a post titled “ generative AI will go mainstream when it goes from playful to useful “, and I think you will agree that this transition is in full swing. 2023 was the year generative AI went mainstream The pace of advancement in generative AI has been astounding.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

But because a large percentage of it is open-source AI is not limited to nation states, AI-powered cyber-attacks, deepfakes and AI software paired with commercially available drones can create “poor-man’s smart weapons” for use by rogue states, terrorists and criminals. AI Attack Surfaces. Massive Data Sets.

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Generative AI that can do WHAT?

VC Cafe

It’s just been the first anniversary since ChatGPT burst into the world and launched the term ‘generative AI’ into the mainstream. It’s been a big year for AI. billion invested in generative AI startups globally in the first half of 2023 according to Pitchbook.