AI Platforms
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Schmidt: The AI shift enables selling big platform software again
“There's a moment right now to go sell You know, big software again. Right. And to go sell platforms and it's because of this moment. And so I think people need to be studying kind of the 15 years ago models of like how people build this and the ecosystems arou…”
Harik: Comparing multiple AI platforms reveals overlooked takeaways in long documents
“And I usually do it with more than one platform because each one of them will have slightly different takeaways than what the takeaways that I had. And I think the variability between them can make you spot things that you didn't see or that you know, you were…”
Gostecki: AI-generated software and designs currently all look identical
“With design becoming more important than ever in the age of AI, like if I see something that's been coded or made with an AI platform, at least today you can completely tell they all look the same. They have the same kind of look and feel, and it's kind of a t…”
Schulhoff: Automated AI Red Teaming Always Works Against All Platforms
“So the first problem is AI red teaming works too well. It's very easy to build these systems and they just, they always work against all platforms.”
McCloy: Optimizing for semantic embeddings does not improve AI search ranking
“But I think as a tool to understand how these AI platforms are consuming your content, embeddings aren't that relevant. You're better off focusing on, like, just, again, having a good structured set of content that makes sense, like, to a human with, like, cle…”
Levie: The defining AI platforms will be permanently cemented within two years
“This is a window in the next couple of years where I think we'll have the defining platforms get built and effectively cemented, assuming that they stay current, right? If you, if you're asleep at the wheel in this space, it's over, right? You only have, you c…”
Kennedy: Enterprise AI procurement is almost entirely a developer-led motion
“It's almost primarily a developer led motion in pretty much every environment. CIOs have to be accountable and responsible, but they're learning, they're being taught by their developers, the things that they've been distant from for quite a while.”
Beauchamp: AI future belongs to distributed specialized platforms, not monoliths
“There must exist a platform where a small team can produce an AI for a unique purpose and they can iterate and build the best thing for that.”
Moore: AI platforms will integrate third-party models into unified workspaces
“So we're expecting to see more platforms. Maybe they don't build the model for each of those themselves, but they at least integrate with the best models for each of those and let you do it in one space, whether that's a creative workspace or an actual work wo…”