An Asian AI Hub-in-the-Making: South Korea is well positioned to become a strong AI hub
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An Asian AI Hub-in-the-Making: South Korea is well positioned to become a strong AI hub

Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.

September 5, 20242 min read
An Asian AI Hub-in-the-Making: South Korea is well positioned to become a strong AI hub
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An Asian AI Hub-in-the-Making: South Korea is well positioned to become a strong AI hub

Recently I visited South Korea, where I spoke at length about AI with President Yoon Suk Yeol. Based on what I saw there in government, business, and academia, the nation is well positioned to become a strong AI hub.

September 5, 20242 min read
Falling LLM Token Prices and What They Mean for AI Companies: The price of using large language models like GPT-4 is falling dramatically. Here’s how AI companies can capitalize on the trend.
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Falling LLM Token Prices and What They Mean for AI Companies: The price of using large language models like GPT-4 is falling dramatically. Here’s how AI companies can capitalize on the trend.

After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens).

August 28, 20243 min read
Falling LLM Token Prices and What They Mean for AI Companies: The price of using large language models like GPT-4 is falling dramatically. Here’s how AI companies can capitalize on the trend.
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Falling LLM Token Prices and What They Mean for AI Companies: The price of using large language models like GPT-4 is falling dramatically. Here’s how AI companies can capitalize on the trend.

After a recent price reduction by OpenAI, GPT-4o tokens now cost $4 per million tokens (using a blended rate that assumes 80% input and 20% output tokens).

August 28, 20243 min read
Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances
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Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances

When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.

August 15, 20242 min read
Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances
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Thailand’s AI Push: How countries that aren’t AI hotspots will benefit from AI advances

When entrepreneurs build a startup, it is often their speed and momentum that gives them a shot at competing with the tech behemoths. This is true of countries as well.

August 15, 20242 min read
How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products
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How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products

Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user

July 31, 20244 min read
How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products
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How to Brainstorm AI Startup Ideas: Best practices for brainstorming, evaluating, and prioritizing great ideas for AI startups and products

Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user

July 31, 20244 min read
Life in Low Data Gravity: With generative AI, data is bound less tightly to the cloud provider where it’s stored. This has big implications for developers, CIOs, and cloud platforms.
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Life in Low Data Gravity: With generative AI, data is bound less tightly to the cloud provider where it’s stored. This has big implications for developers, CIOs, and cloud platforms.

I’ve noticed a trend in how generative AI applications are built that might affect both big companies and developers: The gravity of data is decreasing.

March 13, 20243 min read
Life in Low Data Gravity: With generative AI, data is bound less tightly to the cloud provider where it’s stored. This has big implications for developers, CIOs, and cloud platforms.
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Life in Low Data Gravity: With generative AI, data is bound less tightly to the cloud provider where it’s stored. This has big implications for developers, CIOs, and cloud platforms.

I’ve noticed a trend in how generative AI applications are built that might affect both big companies and developers: The gravity of data is decreasing.

March 13, 20243 min read
Three Themes for AI Entrepreneurs: Starting an AI company? Three keys to AI entrepreneurship emerged at AI Fund’s annual co-founder and CEO summit.
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Three Themes for AI Entrepreneurs: Starting an AI company? Three keys to AI entrepreneurship emerged at AI Fund’s annual co-founder and CEO summit.

Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies.

February 22, 20242 min read
Three Themes for AI Entrepreneurs: Starting an AI company? Three keys to AI entrepreneurship emerged at AI Fund’s annual co-founder and CEO summit.
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Three Themes for AI Entrepreneurs: Starting an AI company? Three keys to AI entrepreneurship emerged at AI Fund’s annual co-founder and CEO summit.

Earlier this month, my team AI Fund held its annual co-founder and CEO summit, where many of our collaborators gathered in California for two days to discuss how to build AI companies.

February 22, 20242 min read
What If Large Language Models Become a Commodity?: Large language models are proliferating. What are the prospects for Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and LLM startups?
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What If Large Language Models Become a Commodity?: Large language models are proliferating. What are the prospects for Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and LLM startups?

On the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, which pits chatbots against each other anonymously and prompts users to judge which one generated a better answer...

February 7, 20243 min read
What If Large Language Models Become a Commodity?: Large language models are proliferating. What are the prospects for Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and LLM startups?
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What If Large Language Models Become a Commodity?: Large language models are proliferating. What are the prospects for Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and LLM startups?

On the LMSYS Chatbot Arena Leaderboard, which pits chatbots against each other anonymously and prompts users to judge which one generated a better answer...

February 7, 20243 min read
What's Next for OpenAI: The abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Alman leaves impacts both hopeful and worrisome.
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What's Next for OpenAI: The abrupt firing and reinstatement of OpenAI CEO Sam Alman leaves impacts both hopeful and worrisome.

I’m delighted that the crisis at OpenAI, which you can read about below, seems to have been resolved with an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO after his sudden firing last week.

November 22, 20232 min read

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