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AI Strategy & Market Shifts

  • OpenAI's Deep Research: The "Big Bang" Event for AI Agents
  • Why OpenAI is forced to enter the search business
  • Apple's AI Strategy in a Nutshell
  • Databricks' AI Strategy in a Nutshell
  • AI Race to the Bottom
  • Why Innovator's Dilemma Doesn't Apply to AI
  • AWS's Positioning in GenAI, and Re:Invent 2023 Recap
  • How AI startups are building moats - by paying for them
  • Vector database is not a separate database category
  • Here's How AI Can be Bearish for Tech Stocks

Building & Deploying Enterprise AI

  • Learn how to build and deploy tool-using LLM agents using AWS SageMaker JumpStart Foundation Models
  • Create a Generative AI Gateway to allow secure and compliant consumption of foundation models
  • The AI Gateway Pattern for Enterprises
  • RAG vs Finetuning LLMs - What to use, when, and why.
  • Why Data Strategy Comes Before AI Strategy
  • Building Agents with GPT Function Calls - Langchain Killer?
  • Challenges of Building LLM Agents
  • How ChatGPT, InstructGPT, and GPT3.5 Work in Plain English

Business Models & Go-to-Market

  • Most AI startups are service businesses, pretending to be product companies
  • 7 Failure Modes of Enterprise Tech Sales
  • Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build
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