VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It’s a bit crazy to think that even a year ago, the term ‘generative AI’ was not exactly on everyone’s lips. ChatGPT, and to a large extent LLMs, burst into the scene only in November 2022 (after many years of research).

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

An interesting new report by Dealroom and Flow Partners breaks down the massive investment that the “Magnificent Seven” (or M7 for short) are plowing into AI across verticals. It’s impossible to ignore the impact that Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Tesla/xAI have on AI.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2024

AI Agents and Vertical Opportunities AI agents represent a prime example of application-layer innovation. Instead of competing with established players like Microsoft in the B2B space or Meta and Google in advertising, startups can explore other verticals where AI can add significant value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

That what used to be more vertically integrated efforts by different companies are being picked apart by especially entrepreneurs coming in and taking various pieces of their value chain, again, leveraging digital. Well, obviously generative AI in particular with ChatGPT is on everybody's mind these days.

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VC Cafe

MAY 14, 2024

The generative AI market is exploding globally, with venture capitalists pouring $12.8 Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally. Israel is positioning itself as one of the potential leading hubs for generative AI globally. million), consumer ($422.5

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So much has happened in the generative AI space globally, and in Israel since we published the previous version of the Israeli generative AI landscape, back almost exactly five months ago. We’ve seen new foundational models, open source LLMs and all sorts of new companies building the co-pilots for every category.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2023

That’s not to say that application layer startups didn’t raise large funding rounds: Jasper ($125M), RunwayML ( $141M ) Tome ( $43M ), ElevenLabs, But Israeli startups, to a large extent, have been excluded from this trend, only securing smaller round. Are they too late?

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer. Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning companies. Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Defense (DoD).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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Ben's Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development. The companies created in this stage will likely start from a vertical, like video or email, and evolve over time.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

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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