2024-06-13
How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system on the planet — A few weeks ago OpenAI released GPT-4o ushering in a new standard for multimodal, conversational experiences with sophisticated reasoning capabilities. Several days later, my good friends at PolyAI...
Fortune
Sources detail Amazon's struggles to build a new generative AI-powered Alexa, including privacy concerns keeping Alexa's teams from using Anthropic's Claude
“Alexa, let's chat.” — With that phrase, David Limp, at the time Amazon's head of devices and services, showed off …
2020-02-18
This is an incredibly insightful article about the reality of running AI businesses: https://a16z.com/... @a16z TLDR: Margins are lower than expected, scale is an issue, and building good moats is very hard.
Andreessen Horowitz
AI-centric businesses face scaling challenges and lower gross margins due to high compute usage and ongoing human support compared to traditional software firms
Andreessen Horowitz : Tweets: @a16z , @mihail_eric , and @raven_protocol Tweets: @a16z : AI may look like software. AI may replace software. But AI companies don't seem to be soft...