VC Cafe

MARCH 16, 2025

B2C founders are surely no strangers to the adage ‘Consumer is hard’ – it’s not just the scarcity of funding that is challenging: consumer taste is fickle and competition includes most of the tech giants. But change seems to be brewing in the B2C space, powered by the fast advancements in AI and generative AI.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It’s particularly interesting to think about voice AI in terms of the tech stack needed to build the voice engines, but note that the application layer (for both B2B and B2C apps) sits on top of the tech stack doesn’t require to build the full infrastructure. This democratisation is driving innovation at the edges.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2025

Looking Back: A Year Defined by Generative AI 2024 will go down in history as the year generative AI truly went mainstream. It wasnt just startups leveraging generative AIcorporates like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google integrated AI-powered features into their core products, making it ubiquitous.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2025

NVIDIA announced DGX Station personal AI supercomputer with new Blackwell Ultra GPU and also introduced the Groot N1 , the first open-weight foundational model for humanoid robotics. OpenAI launched 3 new audio models – 2 new speech-to-text models and a new text-to-speech model. Mistral AI released Small 3.1

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