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Just a quick pat on the shoulder here as Microsoft just announced they would move from ChatGPT-like solutions in the browser to the real disruption: running private instances of their AI/LLM solution on industrial customers data lakes. And boy, are they full in on this! They don't
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I spent a decade listening to numerous prophets and gurus explaining how, after social (web 2.0), the web will reach its next paradigm: web 3.0. During this decade, what would redefine the web has been a wave of dead-on-arrival ideas and technologies. The Semantic Web, the Internet of
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Neeva is a search engine launched in 2019 that raised $77.5 million of funding from VCs such as Greylock and Sequoia Capital. The project was simple and effective: beat Google at its own game by implementing a better crawling and ranking algorithm (that allows you to find the best
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While the rumor mill is spinning like crazy about Apple AR, VR, or XR glasses that are supposedly soon-to-be-announced, it's worth remembering that no one knows anything about this launch. Or even if there will be a launch. Apple secrecy makes it so that tech journalists – and when
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There is a current trend that is the most post-2018 you can imagine. Pure players that disrupted a market by becoming cloud- or online-only suddenly rematerialize and invest in brick-and-mortar. In a seemingly non-sensical turn-around whole crop of digital natives seem to rediscover the wheel. I call this dedigitalization innovation.
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I was on Twitter for 14 years and five months. I canceled my account yesterday. Is there anything to say that hasn't been said these last few months? Should I have waited for the new CEO (or the one that will come after her) to turn things around?
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I had on hold for quite a few weeks an article on how I sometimes use some tools to help generate and challenge business ideas or formulate different business models around new technology. One of the tools I've been using for years is the TRIZ methodology. It'
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I often used a simple trick when discussing turbulent zones in any market and trying to monitor as weak signals might become trends. I check how many events have been recently going on on a quick PESTEL checklist. If more than 3 or 4 of the letters have been checked
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An excellent article from The Verge on Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and how the most influential venture capitalist firms in Silicon Valley and beyond shaped 'tech.' Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?Disruptors, disruptedThe VergeElizabeth Lopatto As the model of social networks seems
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This is the weakest flex ever, but our website has been crawled, and its public content scrapped by Google to train its large language mode AI. It also means we've been on the map for all ChatGPT versions and other competing models, trying to catch up on OpenAI.
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One of my connections kindly pointed me to a Harvard Business Review article called 4 Steps to Creating a Strategy in an Uncertain World. I struggled with the simple idea of even sharing the link to it, but here it is. Every time I read something from HBR, I cringe,
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I've been on Twitter for years, probably since around the time they went out of beta. Like many of us, I enjoyed the social network quite a lot and made connections that soon became virtual friends and, for some, real friends. I learned things; I was outraged, and