Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells us that it might come from someone smaller. 

SHOW: 864

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WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

• Internet infrastructure (router) came from Cisco
• Web Browser / Web Server came from Netscape
• Mainstream Linux came from Red Hat
• Social Media came from Twitter, Facebook
• Cloud came from Amazon
• Smart Phone came from Apple
• AI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA) 
• What’s Similar? What’s Different?
• Funding, Founders, Market Competitors

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Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.
 
SHOW: 863

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SHOW NOTES:

• Freeman and Forrest (homepage)
• DevOps for Dummies (book)
• 97 Things every Cloud Engineer should know (book)
• Forrest Brazeal (homepage)
• Developing Multi-Cloud Skills (Eps.602 Cloudcast)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start

Topic 3 - Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]

Topic 4 - Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.

Topic 6 -  What does good and bad look like these days?

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The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024. 

SHOW: 862

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SHOW NOTES:

• Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)
• Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)

5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

1. Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?
2. Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all models
3. Does OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?
4. Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?
5. What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot? 
6. What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.

SHOW: 861

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• Link to September 2024 news and articles

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

• Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
• The AI Innovation Continues 
• Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)
• Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on 
• Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it? 

SHOW: 860

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SHOW NOTES:

• Western North Carolina Red Cross (DONATIONS)
• Eastern Tennessee Red Cross (DONATIONS)
• OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity
• LinkedIn Profile Roaster
• Brian’s “roasted” LinkedIn profile

THE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTION

• We talk a lot about how much CEOs make
• We talk a lot about the CEOs creating/executing strategy (good or bad)
• We talk a lot about “rockstars” (see: Workday “rockstars” commercials)

BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?

• Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, “if you’re not first, you’re last!”
• Should we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since that’s how the merit/raise system works? 
• Should we be embarrassed 

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Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.

SHOW: 859

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• Persona webpage
• Tech Crunch Article on Persona

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.

Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?

Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?

Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?

Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?

Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?

Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?

Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?

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This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and the tech industry? 

SHOW: 858

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SHOW NOTES:

• Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025

IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

• People have adapted their life to working from home
• People have adapted their families to working from home
• Daily commutes seem like a poor use of resources

IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

• Being around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharing
• RTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)
• RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”
• RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workers

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Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for legal firms.

SHOW: 857

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• Eve Homepage

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?

Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?

Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.

Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?

Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?

Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?

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Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology. 

SHOW: 856

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LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE US

• Diffusion of information
• Currency exchange
• Government laws, embargoes, tariffs
• Language and timezone differences
• Local culture, norms, expectations

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Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.

SHOW: 855

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• Link to August 2024 news and articles
• Subscribe to Cote's newsletter. 

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

• Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
• The AI Innovation Continues 
• Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel’s struggles?
• Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?
• Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?
• Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it’s offered to you.  

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