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. Artificial Intelligence – Scaling global intelligence and redefining work: AI training costs should continue to fall 75% per year. trillion by 2030.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In the early days, and this was really early back in 1989 when I first started playing in this area, before the internet, it was really just focused on marketing, using customer data to target to do a bit more matching of a name. And then in the internet area it became retargeting. David Edelman (03:46): Yeah, sure.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Dead Internet Theory There’s a weird thing called Dead Internet Theory: Ever heard of it? Dead Internet Theory suggests that most of the content on the internet is now machine-generated or automated by artificial means, such as generative AI or bots. of all internet traffic is bots.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2024

ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode and Eleven Labs are setting new benchmarks in conversational AI by enhancing voice quality and realism, NotebookLM’s natural voice podcast took the Internet by storm and new open source technologies are making high quality voice cloning easier than ever.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It’s that it demands a review of internet Search as we know it, how we perform searches literally and the resulting business model which underlies it. The recent option to subscribing to ChatGPT for $20 per month is a clue as to where the business model of Generative AI is likely to go – subscription rather than advertising.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Internet quickly caught up and created multiple categories of in ‘ This Does Not Exist’ – from AI generated cats, landscapes, real estate, meme, etc. It’s also able to add accents, i.e. English with a Brooklyn accent.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

Back then, we called it synthetic media, and over time we evolved to calling it creative automation and now you’d have to live under a rock to not know about generative AI. These stories are not fully written yet, and we should not write them off, but their timeline has certainly shifted.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While incumbents like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have vast resources and existing integrations, startups have the advantage of speed, focus, and the ability to attract top AI talent interested in building from the ground up. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We still believe that there are huge opportunities in decentralized networks, especially in DeFi, as well as the blockchain’s capacity as a “system of record”, especially now with the explosive progress of generative AI (another emerging theme we’re spending time on).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

AI is part of that story. Marketers are just starting to use AI and wrap their heads around how it can be useful for what we're doing for SEO, and then Google is implementing ai, so generative AI on the search results pages, and that can be scary depending on exactly how Google implements it going forward.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The fields that generative AI addresses—knowledge work and creative work—comprise billions of workers. Generative AI can make these workers at least 10% more efficient and/or creative: they become not only faster and more efficient, but more capable than before. Sequoia, Generative AI: A Creative New World.

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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. But that is not very scalable.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

I mean, I think a lot of people would say, well, you know, for the last 20 years I guess since we came on the internet, we've been wired, right? 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?

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VC Cafe

MAY 2, 2023

The theme of this year’s conference was ‘Possibility’ and there was a significant focus on AI and generative AI, and the possibilities they unlock. Theme 1: The Power of Generative AI The first AI talk was by Greg Brockman , co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Or, it’s just what “generative AI” does with a series of uploaded images of the two of us if given some creative prompting. You can’t train your ML tools on the cesspool that is the whole internet and not expect some potentially dangerous results. That’s why I’m bullish on creator tools like Highnote.

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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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VC Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2023

It’s going to take some time to develop the vision of the Metaverse, but I expect to continue seeing the 3D Internet develop in 2023 from the perspective of infrastructure and devices, middleware/ tools and consumer experiences. Generative AI enters Gaming in a big way. State of the Stream by StreameElements ( source ).

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VC Cafe

MAY 1, 2023

In the early days of the Internet, we witnessed the browser wars and as technology continued to advance, we saw the number of wars, and the number of players involved in them grow. 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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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Gaming has been established as the #1 form of entertainment for anyone below 50 in the US, with over 92% of Internet users aged 16-24 playing at least once a week. The rise of generative AI is likely to have a significant impact on the gaming industry in 2023. Generative AI for games market map ( source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And the way that effort was coordinated, because there were no cell phones, there was no internet at the time, you'd go down the building with concern faces and somebody would say, Hey, I'll organize security. Put your hands and say, I have a problem, or I have an aspiration. (04:01): 04:01): You find other people and they come together.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They want to ensure that people are not creating a huge RAF of content using LMS AI that will fill the internet with a bunch of croft things that are not really that valuable or are not properly fact checked. There's already lots of issues with AI creating and just making up facts, references, studies and that sort of thing.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2023

If AI’s current excitement and hype interests you, I encourage you to join the Rocky Mountain Artificial Intelligence Interest Group (RMAIIG). The monthly Meetup will follow the fascinating and rapidly evolving world of generative AI tools.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

Even prior to generative ai, we had content farms where people would just generate crappy low quality content. And I Yeah, John (09:14): They're just human AI bots. Now there's even just on the internet, right? How do we do all of that stuff? And like I said, that's declined in effectiveness. Alan (09:16): Exactly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2021

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Berkonomics

MAY 4, 2023

This time they are aided by tail winds brought on by the rapid spread of access to the Internet and AI. Generative AI applications are moving so fast that two applications (ChatGPT and Midjourney) in November, 2022 are now hundreds of applications, many focused upon your particular niche. And now everyone has access.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 24, 2024

However, entrepreneurs have never really stopped building new consumer experiences and technology (in particular Generative AI) is unlocking a new wave of innovation in consumer startups. Categories like AI companions, productivity enhancers, and new creative platforms, are being launched with significant user engagement.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

This suggests companies are already talking about AI less. ? The pace of improvements in AI language models is slowing as low-hanging fruit gets exhausted. Models trained on most of the internet are becoming commoditised. ? Take for example some of Google’s recent AI results spewing ridiculous answers.

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Start Up Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Up until November last year, when the first useful ChatBot – ChatGPT – was released to the general public, almost everything on the internet was essentially ‘us’: human-centric content. This 30-years or so of deep and wide content which populated the internet has been the perfect training ground for Generative AI.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

This post highlights a few interesting points that stood out from the report “The Venture Capital frontier & the new AI Wild West” (link at the bottom of the post). Increasingly, vertical applied AI opportunities, and the LLM ops/ orchestration layer, seem to be the areas where that potential can be found.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2022

And the Internet is moving in that direction – more immersive, social, participatory. Hamza Khan. From the brands and platforms panel: Lorne Sugarman ( Metaverse Group ) shared how brands are actively experimenting now across platforms for PR, engagement and profit.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Some of the most important are artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and virtual reality (VR). You may be surprised to know that it was written 100% by AI using Moonbeam and another 30 seconds spent on creating an image with Dall-e 2. The post Raising venture capital in down market?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

#TED2024 @TEDTalks pic.twitter.com/Bq9MhHVoof — Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) April 16, 2024 It’s easy to be uplifted from the promise of the rapid rise of AI/robotics: every person with access to the Internet will be able to get access to the best doctor/tutor, an explosion of creativity with generative AI will see the rise of personalised entertainment, (..)

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Generative AI now has the potential to exponentially grow the quantity of content created. Articles, ads, images, videos, voice, graphs, 3D objects, music, scientific papers… all can be created today with AI. Base10 includes 300 startups in their generative AI landscape (source).

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Start Up Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Every tech company worth its salt is developing its own Generative AI tools. Microsoft has ChatGPT, Google has Gemini, Meta has Meta AI, Apple has Apple Intelligence, and Amazon has Claude via a multi-billion dollar investment in Anthropic. Some of you may even remember this as an early internet promise.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For you have, at your fingertips, a technology revolution that doesn’t come around more than once every few hundred years: Artificial Intelligence—or AI. We are not only entering the AI Generation. You are the AI generation. You are Generation AI. The last two were the internet and mobile phones.

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