AI Strategy

“One of the things that we always want to watch out for is this notion of like companies where they have some dictate from on high of I don't know what, but just figure out our AI strategy. And if it's that top down, often there's not a substance to it. And so …”

“I saw the strategy that they had, and the strategy, I think, was short-sighted. It was a Western view with Western problems and Western ideologies applied to the UAE.”

“So when people talk about AI strategy or, you know, what should data do? I said you know, let's first talk about strategy and finance and commercial. And then we can figure out how to you know, use this data and analytics to make those things meaningful.”

“So I think basically having the government drive all of AI strategy, you know, Manhattan-style project or Apollo project, pick your favorite successful project there, I can't see that working. You probably need a highly dynamic ecosystem of a large number of c…”

“I feel like a lot of funds have taken positions on the chessboard and have kind of like submitted their strategy and now they're sort of going deeper into those thesis areas.”

“I think we moved fast, but I genuinely think that, like, there was no other option. I think, were we sitting here without an AI strategy today, we'd be deeply worried.”

“That feels like the best way of actually looking at someone's or anyone's AI strategy is those two big buckets of just like, what is it helping us do better the task that we're currently doing today? And then the new kind of questions and problems that it's br…”

“Half of them, maybe not surprisingly, also told us that a convincing AI strategy has become more important than it was previously.”

“Like the more you can build these guardrails in from kind of day one of your AI projects, when you, it allows you to be more aggressive, right? Just like the safety systems on an F-one car allow you to lap faster. If you build this stuff in from the beginning …”