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

Repeatedly recognized by Forbes as one of the “Most Influential CMOs in the World” and by AdWeek as one of the “Top 20 Marketing and Technology Executives,” his work has attracted over 1.1 Currently, David advises top executives on AI and personalization. And then in the internet area it became retargeting. So buckle up.

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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. Let’s dive in!

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Business disruption is not caused by technology alone. 1) A new technology + (2) A new business model If we only have one, the incumbents can usually adapt. Or, they can revert the old technology into a new business model. For example: The Music Industry had 3 new technologies before they got disrupted.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

With new advances in AI, creativity is now being transformed by technology and offered as a services for consumers and companies. Creative automation is the ability to create original, high quality content (text, video, images, music, art, etc) leveraging data and technology. Audio and Music.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 3, 2024

I’ve seen the explosion of new unicorns created, from cybersecurity pioneers to AI disruptors and billion dollar revenue gaming startups. While it is going through a challenging period now, Israel continues to stand as a powerhouse of innovation and technology, ranking 6th in global innovation according to Global Finance.

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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). Best wishes to you and your loved ones this holiday season.

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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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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He serves clients across a range of industries on growth strategy, performance improvement, and value creation by harnessing the power of data and analytics, digital culture and capabilities, and modernized core technology. He is the co-author of Rewired: the McKinsey’s Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AI.

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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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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. Maybe this is the gateway technology that allows the metaverse to take a leap forward and for us to finally get holodecks like in Star Trek. Critics pose a ton of ethical and legal questions.

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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

The average Amercian spends about 13 hours per day using technology, and the share of gaming is growing as the most popular form of entertainment for people below 50. Streaming technology is revolutionizing the way we play games. Augmented and virtual reality technology is becoming more advanced and accessible.

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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

In June this year, we at Remagine Ventures, supported GameIS, the Israeli Gaming Association, and Deloitte in the creation of the report “The Israeli Video Games Ecosystem: Converging Technologies, Emerging Opportunities. The rise of generative AI is likely to have a significant impact on the gaming industry in 2023.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

It’s impossible to ignore the impact that Google/Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, Apple and Tesla/xAI have on AI. With a combined value of $14 Trillion (representing 32% of the S&P 500), these companies invest $400 billion a year into frontier technologies, namely AI and cloud infrastructure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Learn how to leverage AI to optimize your website for search engines and stay ahead of the competition. Discover the importance of adapting traditional SEO tactics to accommodate the advancements in AI technology, from content creation to technical optimization. Who wants to read a thousand page book? (01:33):

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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. John (14:10): Interestingly enough, AI has actually brought out the scam and hype and high pressure sales. How do we do all of that stuff?

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Like any new and emerging technology, the Metaverse has faced its share of challenges and criticisms. Layoffs, technology difficulties and expensive hardware didn’t massively help build a positive story. And the Internet is moving in that direction – more immersive, social, participatory. Hamza Khan.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Here are tips for founders who want to raise money in this environment: Adjust your pitch – In a down market, investors are more interested in companies that have long-term potential than those that will generate immediate returns. The big technology trends are unfolding – What they are and why they matter for your business.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2024

Speaking at TED in Vancouver last week (April 2024), Venture investor Vinod Khosla gave a talk titled “Vision for 2035-2049 “ He described a techno-utopian future powered by advances in AI, robotics, and other emerging technologies. Eliezer Yudkowsky was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in AI last year.

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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. AI will reshape the lives of all of us.

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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). Such a milestone!

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Bonus – Listen to a radio Interview I did with Dwayne Russell to discuss AI’s impact on AFL and other sports AI Substitutes – Deep Fake Love While we are all familiar with Deep Fakes being used in politics and business, emerging from the same servers as image generation AIs and the power of large language models are AI girlfriends.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Click below to listen to Steve read this post (6 min audio) The AI’s such as ChatGPT, are taking the world by storm. While these are ‘institutional technologies’ we’ve been granted access to, they always trickle down to the domestic level. Within 3-5 years we’ll all have personal AI’s.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In the World of Videogames Game development in the internet era has already seen its fair share of changes, but the biggest and boldest could be around the corner.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. AI in National Security.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While the seemingly overnight success of ChatGPT was culmination of more than a decade of iterations in ‘creative automation’, the progress we’ve witnessed in AI over the last couple of years is poised to forever change the landscape of content creation. But Generative AI has yet to live to that hype.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

It’s only been a bit over a month since the start of 2025 past year has witnessed seismic shifts in technology, from breakthroughs in generative AI to emerging solutions in climate tech and healthcare. This is an extension of the previous list with new sources and startup requests. You can find the 2024 RFS list here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Curiosity drives me to explore new marketing trends and technologies. AI is not just a tool but a foundational element in marketing. Small businesses can leverage AI for efficiency and personalization. I mean, if you think about it, I mean, since I've been doing this, I mean when I started this, we didn't have the internet.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

The internet had a massive impact on the media industry, as the reporting of news became a commodity few are willing to pay for. How can media companies transform generative AI from threat to opportunity ? The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. And make some money along the way.

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