AI Services
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Neon Show 
Catalyst 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
8 statements about AI Services, every show
Vahdat: Interactive AI models will require geographically distributed inference infrastructure
“So as these services become more interactive, as they become more efficient, and that, that is still going to be a journey. We're not there today. You're going to want to have geographic locality. That's also going to impact reliability, because again, you can…”
Heller: AI competition will drive legal service costs to pennies on the dollar
“I think at first you can start charging when the human's charging and then you'll have competitors and they'll come in and they'll charge a little bit less. And then other competitors will come and they'll charge a little bit less. And it's kind of beautiful, …”
Patel: Consumers will prefer AI over humans once capabilities align
“I think a lot of sectors economy look like this, where we're like, we're assuming people will care about having a human, but in fact, they will not.”
Khare: AI-Led Services Margins Can Expand From 30% to 75%
“So what we've seen at least is in this category, companies start off with 30 to 40% gross margins, because they're doing a lot of custom work, and they're figuring out what the product is, but once the product gets more productized, and there's always human in…”
Stebbings: AI services will generate more revenue than AI models
“I think AI services will actually create more revenue over the next five years than AI models.”
Levie: AI services and implementation spending will be massive over next five years
“So, so I think I would take the bet on, on AI services for the next five years, unquestionably. The amount of dollars that will go into the change management of systems, the implemented, the implementation of the technology is, is going to continue to be massi…”
Lonsdale: 8VC Identified 12 Sectors for $100B+ AI Service Displacement
“We've identified about 12 areas like this where we think there's gonna be more than a hundred billion dollars pulled out of those areas in terms of being able to go after them and create more efficient things.”
Banta: Human operators behind AI services are not going away soon
“In a lot of cases, there are people behind the machine that are masked or not put at the forefront. And in In certain cases, like, those people aren't going anywhere anytime soon if you want to create the type of experience I think consumers want.”