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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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So we are now at the dawn of Generative AI. In the realm of visual imagery, Generative AI has been used to create realistic images of nearly anything conceivable, from people who don’t exist (yet) to entirely new animals. We are only at the beginning of understanding how Generative AI will change the world as we know it.

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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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Board Effect

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to be a powerful tool for nonprofit organizations, but it also requires board members to understand the challenges and ethical concerns it presents, along with its benefits. Insider Intelligence predicts that generative AI adoption will climb to 77.8 million users by 2024.

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deal architect

JUNE 5, 2023

I shared in this post that our research agenda is tracking four large software and services markets – vertical “edge” applications, applications for fast-growing global economies, custom development using low and no-code tools and Generative and other AI. The interest.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Major companies, such as Unity, have also started developing tools and software for developers to build robust and innovative applications within this space. Generative AI: The Forbes article Startup Trends, Industries, and Technologies in 2024 suggests that the evolution of Generative AI will play a crucial role in the business sector.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Voice AI applications will unlock $10B of new software TAM over the next five years Bessemer Venture Partners Remember when talking to machines felt like science fiction? For example Speak and Praktika, which use voice AI for language learning, grew very quickly to over $20M in revenue in the last 12 months.

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Board Effect

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As generative AI becomes more widely accepted, many leaders in the nonprofit and charity sector are no longer asking whether they should use it, but rather where else they can use it. Issues around generative AI are rife in every industry, but there are enough parallels to see trends in both opportunities and cautionary tales.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

more on the lack of liquidity that is creating a VC funding crunch – The Wall Street Journal The current state of AI markets – a comprehensive view of where value was accrued and what’s next MEDIA OF THE WEEK Israeli VC investments in the first 9 months of 2024 reached $7.8 via Trung T. Keep on creating!

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Over the years, software has picked off more and more of these tasks, but even today, humans still own the vast majority of business processes. In every function, headcount costs dwarf software expenditures by orders of magnitude. When it comes to Generative AI, the incumbents are not resting on their laurels.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Yet, these are the risks we are being asked to take with our live Generative AI experiment, at least according to some AI experts. P(Doom) is the term AI researchers are using to describe the probability that Artificial Super Intelligence will emerge and become an existential risk for humanity. Would you do it?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Generally speaking, we’re excited about how software can help climate solutions scale. For example, ChatGPT’s ability to generate content based on the entire Internet corpus will likely mean that we’ll need to sign everything to signify its validity (some more thoughts from Fred Wilson here ).

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

AI can also save boards time by summarizing meeting notes, analyzing complex data or research reports and sending meeting reminders. Because nonprofits usually have tight budgets and small staffs, generative AI in the form of ChatGPT and other natural language processing tools offer much needed support.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 18, 2023

The label condemned the song for “infringing content created with generative AI.” For those who say Generative AI will put lawyers out of work, I say: not yet! Grimes has even launched a new AI voice software called Elf-Tech to help people duplicate her voice to create new music.

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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

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. Even at this stage in the game, the opportunity is huge.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Process Automation and Efficiency AI can automate repetitive tasks, such as data entry and generating reports, to free up staff and volunteers for activities that require a human touch. AI can also reduce errors and eliminate redundancies. ChatGPT – A chatbot created by OpenAI that understands and generates human-like text.

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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? Is it just an evolution? Rodney Zemmel (04:46): No. Rodney Zemmel (09:04): Yeah.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2023

Many investors complain that the technology is over hyped -and now it’s official – generative AI is at the peak of Gartner ‘s hype cycle for emerging technologies in 2023. After all, the adoption of generative AI has been faster than many other technologies, including smartphones.

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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. Meta has started beta testing its “ Make a Video ” software, no doubt trained on all the videos we’ve ever uploaded to Facebook. That’s why I’m bullish on creator tools like Highnote.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2023

Well, obviously generative AI in particular with ChatGPT is on everybody's mind these days. But we should observe that AI is, it's been around for a while. But it's not just generative ai. So, so what are some of the, let's go on both sides of that. Mike Lenox (05:59): Yeah, absolutely.

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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

MARCH 14, 2025

Cohere debuted Command-A , a generative AI model aimed at complex enterprise tasks that can run on minimal compute. billion and Sony is experimenting with AI-powered characters on Playstation. Great stuff Noam Maital and team Darwin AI on your $5M seed round to build the secure AI hub for governments!

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

So they're giving an attribution to the user interface and the default settings of the software, not the science. So there's a thing called an AI agent. So you might've heard they're doing custom GPTs with chat GPT and that software. Those still are whether they were using generative AI or not.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

So I'm sort of like a software engineer by background. So, so the flip side of that, then, you know, what are some tips to get the best end product, Sam Garg (09:08): The best ones, the best results that you get out of any AI model, whether that's for image or text is when you give it good inputs, right? Sam Garg (01:22): For sure.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So early in my career, I prioritized being close to engineering teams, teaching myself how to build software, and learning how to be a product manager. When I came across Marc Andreessens article, “ Why Software is Eating the World in 2011, it felt like a vindication of the direction I had chosen, but I was already down that path.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

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. TikTok, Facebook, all the CPMs are up. Lloyed Lobo (26:15): Definitely.

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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. GenAI-based software can and already is helping to bridge this gap. Where Are We Now?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 6, 2024

As a pre-seed investor at Remagine Ventures , half of our investments are in B2B Software, especially around technologies in the content creation, distribution, monetisation and analytics space. Metric Unremarkable Good Excellent Outlier ARR <$500k $500k-$1.5m $1.5m-$2.5m >$2.5m Fundraising has become meaningfully tougher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2023

From PDFs and Word docs to audio, video, images, presentations, and more, Omnisearch supports them all, making it the most complete and versatile search software today. inside your favorite sales engagement platform, email service provider, or on social to leverage the power of Generative AI where you work.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 2, 2024

Funding for AI startups has cooled in recent months. The case for continued AI momentum: ? It’s still early innings for LLMs – Microsoft and Google are still early in their rollouts of generative AI in search, productivity software, cloud and more. Meta is working on its open source LLaMa.

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VC Cafe

MAY 30, 2024

But the activity of the M7 players is across the stack: from hardware chips, to foundational LLMs through to humanoid robotics, self driving technology, AI health, etc. 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

AUGUST 30, 2024

Kudos Yochai Corem and team Cyberint on the acquisition by Check Point Software for $200M! EXITS Congratulations Neal Eigler M.D. and team V-Wave on the $1.7 billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson ! Way to go Ilan Hadar and team Silexion Therapeutics Corp on your Nasdaq IPO in a SPAC deal!

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VC Cafe

MAY 10, 2024

Several venture capital funds including Insight Partners , Betaworks , Prosus Ventures and Activant Capital have created interesting content on the the topic of automation and AI agents, that I thought it’s worth a shot to try to synthesise it all into a blog post. What is an AI Agent? Here we go!

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VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2024

To add more heat, Microsoft launched generative AI search results for Bing. Mistral AI released two new open-source LLM models (Nemo in partnership with NVIDIA ) and Large 2. AI at Meta launched LLaMa 3.1, APPOINTMENTS Mazel tov Nadav Zafrir on being named the new CEO of Check Point Software !

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

VCs see Agentic AI as $4 Trillion Opportunity “A multi-trillion-dollar opportunity to reimagine software, services, and work” Insight Partners A new report by Battery Ventures is calling it the Coming AI Market “Supercycle”. If you take into account the $2 trillion dollar spend on services, $1.5

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