VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. Blockchain There are a lot of similarities between this era of generative AI and the Blockchain. The stark difference between crypto and AI lies in their use cases.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Train your AI models at twice the speed and less than half of the cost of other clouds. So what are the big ways that AI is really impacting the approach to personalization? And it's not just generative ai, it's a whole range (03:50): Of capabilities that are coming together. David Edelman (03:46): Yeah, sure.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Fresh data from 15,000+ SAFEs signed last year (source: Carta ) Technology makes it possible to do more with less – LLMs, generative AI have are rapidly changing the game with all kinds of automations, from coding to content creation. The post How the pre-seed round made a comeback in 2024 appeared first on VC Cafe.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

However, the current hype around generative AI feels different. Naturally, a technology like generative AI has the potential to transform and impact many industries, if not all. Many intelligent individuals and consulting firms have written about various industries and their potential use cases for generative AI.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Generative AI is already being used in developer workflows. We expect AI to further augment content creation pipelines by generating images, audio, video, and code. The applications for generative AI are vast, for us at Remagine Ventures, naturally the impact it can have on gaming is really significant.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Agentic Automation for Enterprise Functions: Generative AI agents are being deployed to automate complex business processes across various functions. AI voices that sound ‘robotic’ can be disappointing for users. Latency and Cost: Training and deploying sophisticated voice models can be computationally expensive.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Likewise, when the Airline Industry had low cost airlines arrive. A new business model emerged, but because it was utilising existing technology: planes, airports and booking engines, legacy players could plug in low cost sub-brands. But is isn’t just the product which puts google at risk, it’s the costs and business model.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2024

There is an increasing convergence of content generation, data & identity, and marketing automation , driven by AI. Generative AI in the Enterprise by Deloitte The Q3 2024 report of Generative AI in the Enterprise by Deloitte surveyed 2,770 senior leaders from organisations with active AI implementations.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

One trend that was prominent at the conference was the rise of generative AI in gaming. We are bullish on the future of gaming as the leading form of entertainment for anyone under 50 and are excited about the potential that new technology like generative AI or blockchain has on the future of the gaming industry.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Dubbing and Voice avatars DeepDub – an Israeli startup is able to generate AI voice clones of actors in multiple languages, while keeping the actor’s unique tone of voice. Papercup – a UK startup offering automated video localisation using AI dubbing. Working with broadcasters such as Sky, BBC and Discovery.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In every function, headcount costs dwarf software expenditures by orders of magnitude. Beyond Bots: How AI Agents Are Driving the Next Wave of Enterprise Automation , Menlo Ventures A few months ago I wrote my first primer on VC Cafe about AI Agents, defining what they are and why they represent an attractive investment opportunity.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Great stuff Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on your $25M series A (weeks after a $21M seed) at a $500M valuation , to pioneer scalable, cost efficient generative AI training! AI is already making an impact on jobs (automating customer support for example) and cost reduction.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

billion on 78 generative AI deals —almost as much as was invested in all of the previous 5 years combined, according to PitchBook data. According to a new industry report by Skyquest , AI will contribute $15.7 The global generative AI market was valued at USD 8.12 In 2022, VCs poured $1.37

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VC Cafe

APRIL 17, 2023

“The unanticipated demand to create AI software has outstripped the cloud service capacities of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Oracle” The Information The big challenge in generative AI is GPU shortage and costs. In comparison, Google spends about $100 billion a year on infrastructure costs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

So I look, I I'll give you an example, uh, the answer to that using like generative AI, which is like the hottest conversation topic in the world right now, right? So I will, I'll use generative AI as an example again, right? So again, I'll talk gen AI cuz it's the flavor of the moment, right? (13:34):

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

When it comes to AI applications, big companies have more competitive advantages than they ever have before, because they already own the workflows and data that can make AI features stickiest. Big companies are also rich with much more cash to fund AI investments and compute costs. The first one is simply focus.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

David and Craft are considered top SaaS investors and David said that basically, the industry has been waiting for a catalyst, something that will accelerate digital transformation and help SaaS companies grow faster, and Generative AI seems to be it. Interestingly Craft Ventures divides AI opportunities into three main buckets: ??

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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

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I have been thinking lately about the impact of generative AI on the future of the internet. One aspect I am particularly intrigued about is how our world of media and entertainment will look like with AI. The content explosion fueled by generative AI is just beginning.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we are in the early phases of a Cambrian explosion of generative AI applications, I’ve been thinking about how to make sense of the madness. Especially when the prices of AI companies founded by these sorts of folks approach or exceed what we saw during the most recent bubble. Something does not compute. Similar to Web2.0,

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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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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. To put things in context, let’s start with the basics: 2023 witnessed an impressive influx of $15 billion invested in generative AI startups, significantly surpassing last year’s $4 billion.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As a volunteer board member of a mission-driven organization, you may be wondering how your organization can optimally leverage artificial intelligence (AI). From gaining insights through data analysis to increasing efficiency, the potential impacts of AI are significant. AI can also reduce errors and eliminate redundancies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

It has ways that fundamentally changes the operations and the ways you deliver value and creating opportunities to both increase value and simultaneously lower costs through various kind of efficiency opportunities. Well, obviously generative AI in particular with ChatGPT is on everybody's mind these days.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

Paid Advertising Monitor metrics like cost per click, return on ad spend, and conversion rates to evaluate the effectiveness of your paid campaigns. AI enhances marketing efforts by: Predictive analytics: AI can forecast customer behavior trends and campaign performance, which means that startups can make better proactive decisions.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2024

He talked about where we are in the timeline of generative AI and it made me realise that we’re making an interesting shift now. Venture capital fund Accel noted this tension between the major and minor league in AI in their Euroscape 2024 report. But the challenges in LLMs don’ t remotely mean that AI is dead.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

Generative AI Explosion – Now that the internet is a brain and not just a filing cabinet we are about to see unprecedented levels of creativity, automation, and efficiency in content creation, design, and problem-solving. Just like a staff member would.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

It costs twice as much to generate the same results from the same marketing tactics. The spend is way off whack, and businesses are spending less and less of marketing because even with generative ai, what you're seeing is you're seeing sameness in content people now people are generating content through generative ai.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

According to stats shared by Google’s Asaf Vaknin during the conference, while game app downloads went up 10% year over year, and session durations stayed stable, discretionary spending on gaming was down 6% as people dealt with a rising cost of living. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Those still are whether they were using generative AI or not. 11:55): And so what we're working with now is we've always had this beautiful content inventorying product where we can look at your entire site, we can look at your competitor site and understand and prioritize.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 22, 2023

Previously change meant increased costs and resource utilization. AI learning algorithms help businesses adapt to change almost immediately, except for a few manual adjustments. Startups can integrate AI with other applications and devices so that the company can notice and change appropriately as new tech emerges.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Definition : CAC is the total cost of acquiring a new customer, including marketing and sales expenses. Gross Margin Definition: Gross margin is the percentage of revenue remaining after deducting the cost of goods sold (COGS). This resulted in cost cutting exercises to extend runway.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

New technologies, like Generative AI (which I covered extensively on VC Cafe ) create exciting opportunities to scale creativity and content creation. The number of Metaverse companies grew by 241% in 2022. Looking ahead.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

Take for example some of Google’s recent AI results spewing ridiculous answers. Questions remain about training data/copyright, privacy, security and costs. Funding for AI startups has cooled in recent months. The case for continued AI momentum: ? Meta is working on its open source LLaMa.

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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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