Arc's SF HQ looked a little different than usual on Tuesday night! We had 100+ founders and VCs join us for The AI Hustle’s Happy Hour 🚀
We're still thinking about the energy and excitement that filled the space as the AI community gathered to network and learn. Many thanks to all the founders, investors, and experts who came out to chat, share insights, and just have a good time.
And most importantly, a huge shoutout to Louisa Lu at CommunityOne for organizing this Happy Hour!
“You’ll see it when you believe it” has always been my favorite ISM at Rocket Companies This simple saying is the true driver of how progress is made and how real innovation occurs. As Dan Gilbert said, “Nothing significant in this world has ever happened without someone believing in it first. We know that when we believe in our ability to impact the outcome, we dramatically increase our odds of success. If we believe it can happen, it will.”
When I reflect on yesterday’s earnings call and the stats shown below, along with the data and AI thesis of Rocket that Varun Krishna is so clearly communicating, I can’t help but feel gratitude and thankfulness to a group of team members who believed, and thus, saw it come to fruition. This group of people were brought together many years ago as a new team focused on the construction of a new data lake and to operationalize data science at scale. A team named “Rocket Science”, because what other name would have been fitting?
By starting with the end in mind, we penned a press release from the future - a shared vision of what Rocket Science would become and the impact operationalized data science would have, written as if it was 2022. I'll paraphrase an excerpt from that press release, which mirrors closely what we shared with the public yesterday: “building a cloud-based data lake… influencing millions of decisions across our ecosystem.” Today, that number is in the billions.
The journey to operationalize machine learning is a challenging one, filled with intricacies, nuances, and infinite reasons for why you will fail – truly infinite. But this team always believed they could build and accomplish anything. They embodied another ISM of “We’ll figure it out.” The results of their efforts being a beautiful orchestration of data engineering, software and machine learning engineering, analytics, science, and change management, all supported by infrastructure that could scale to power millions and now billions of decisions.
From that starting core, success bred success, and Rocket Science branched out, touching various teams and areas, yet the foundation remained strong. I have immense gratitude to that original team for showing what is possible, never giving up, confidently running into the unknown, and for embodying the heartbeat of machine learning at scale within Rocket.
You’ll see it when you believe it.
A huge thank you to our Rocket Companies team members for a strong Q3. I’m proud of Rocket’s commitment to building upon our AI and information-learning capabilities, which Brian Brown and I discussed on our earnings call moments ago. Rocket currently houses 10 petabytes of data – a massive amount of proprietary knowledge we are harnessing to transform homebuying. This is just the beginning, and I’m excited to show you more of what we are building to better help our clients and continue to grow our business.
"...models are like humans; we have to evolve every day."
As a self-described "genuinely curious person," Ketan U.'s career so far has been shaped by chasing romance, questioning the technical status quo on his teams, and a passion for distributed systems.
And today, as the co-founder and CEO of Union.ai, he's working to make orchestrating AI infrastructure a piece of 🍰.
Tune in to hear about:
⚒️ Differences in working on software teams in finance & tech
🌎 Unique challenges of geospatial data
🔥 Building a culture of action & fearless experimentation
Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/esT3UAn8
🚀 We at OnFinance AI are thrilled to announce our upcoming Internal Hackathon! 🎉
From 4th- 6th June, our team will split into two groups to tackle a couple of challenging problems related to Generative AI for Enterprise Finance.
This event is all about pushing boundaries and fostering creativity within our talented team. Expect brainstorming, coding, and problem-solving as we come together to innovate and shape the future of AI in finance. Say hello to the captains of our 2 teams: Prakhar & Harish V.
Stay tuned for updates and highlights from this exciting hackathon. May the best team win! 💡
#OnFinanceAI#Hackathon#Innovation#GenerativeAI#Teamwork#AIinFinance#FutureOfFinance
CEO & Founder @ Fifth Dimension AI | PhD in Linguistics - Stanford University | Seedcamp Expert in Product and Technology 🌱 | Thought Leader on AI, the Future of Work, and the Future of Happiness 🎙 ☀️
Couldn't make our BWT Tribe session last week? No worries, I'm here to spill the tea ☕️🤏🏼👀
What I loved THE MOST? Hearing about all the mind-blowing experiments people are doing with AI across the real estate value chain! 🔗
From development to asset management, you guys are pushing the boundaries! 💪
Take Gary getting 600 people at Greystar to try Enterprise GPT as a playground environment. This is THE WAY to kickstart AI adoption, folks!
But here's the thing... we didn’t get to chat about how to go from AI experimentation to deeply embedded, meaningful adoption. Is it because 75 minutes just wasn’t long enough…or because no-one actually knows how to yet 🤔
Well, at 5DAI we do - drop in my DM’s if you want advice on the next stages of adoption for your business! 😉
Have you ever wondered what LLMs are ACTUALLY doing under the hood?
We do a team meeting every Friday, and last week the irrepressible Shaun O'Mahony took a slot, to give our non-technical team members a bluffers guide to generative AI.
Shaun is our CTO and co-founder, and has a gift for explaining stuff.
I learned a huge amount about the tech that underpins this huge change we’re all living through - so I twisted Shaun’s arm to let me share it, knowing many of our clients would love a similar cheat sheet!
Health warning – this is aimed internally (we're hiring fast and we record these team meeting slots for new staff to get up to speed), so its a bit rough and ready, but I hope its helpful.
Its about 12 mins, so make a cup of tea and settle in!
If you are looking for a really good overview of the latest developments in AI and a simple explanation of large language models (the models behind ChatGPT, Bard etc) then this short video featuring Shaun O'Mahony at Xapien is a really good watch. Demystifies everything in about 10 minutes! #llm#artificialintelligence
Have you ever wondered what LLMs are ACTUALLY doing under the hood?
We do a team meeting every Friday, and last week the irrepressible Shaun O'Mahony took a slot, to give our non-technical team members a bluffers guide to generative AI.
Shaun is our CTO and co-founder, and has a gift for explaining stuff.
I learned a huge amount about the tech that underpins this huge change we’re all living through - so I twisted Shaun’s arm to let me share it, knowing many of our clients would love a similar cheat sheet!
Health warning – this is aimed internally (we're hiring fast and we record these team meeting slots for new staff to get up to speed), so its a bit rough and ready, but I hope its helpful.
Its about 12 mins, so make a cup of tea and settle in!
🎙️ Just wrapped up an insightful conversation with Wendy Turner-Williams! 🚀 Join Wendy and Samuel J Cummings III 📈 as they delve into the world of Generative AI advancements and navigate the ethical landscape surrounding layoffs.
Chief Data Officers, like Wendy, play a pivotal role in shaping technological progress while responsibly addressing societal implications.
Don't miss this thought-provoking discussion!
Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gy_sxrzy#cdo#generativeai#societalimpact
Basic seat-based pricing will not last in the age of AI!
Successful AI-native companies are rolling out hybrid pricing and packaging using different models for each product, for each plan, and for each customer segment. In a recent workshop with SaaStr, Sandhya Hegde broke down the pricing strategy behind products from OpenAI, Midjourney, Character.AI, Writer, and more!
Check out the entire recording here: https://lnkd.in/efpC-VZM
Every software company is trying to figure out the best way to price their AI products, services and add on features today and it is ... hard. Shared my lessons and observations from >50 case studies and interviews with AI founders in a workshop with SaaStr today morning! Thank you for building such a great community Jason M. Lemkin and Danielle, Taylor et al for all your feedback on the slide deck!
Video in comments if you want to watch/GPT-summarize ;)
CEO | Chief Data & AI Officer | Author | Board Member | Product Visionary with + $1.5 B ARR | Professor | Speaker | AI for Good Champion | Top 50 Women in Tech | Most Influencial 100 in Data
For those who are AI and Data curious - Samuel J Cummings III 📈 and I got you!
Join us as we explore the nuances, opportunities, risks and impact of data and AI.
Episode 1: The Chief Data Officers Chessboard: Exploring the role of the CDO in AI transformation. Welcome the Chief Data & AI officer!
Episode 2: The Data Monetization Gold Rush: How do you unlock your data $$$ in a quality, trusted way.
Episode 3: The Ethical Puzzles of Gen AI: Data, and Technology have outpaced regulations, and ethical boundaries. How can you navigate a ethical, quality and trusted AI future.
Wow! I think we need a permanent Sam and Wendy show!
🎙️ Just wrapped up an insightful conversation with Wendy Turner-Williams! 🚀 Join Wendy and Samuel J Cummings III 📈 as they delve into the world of Generative AI advancements and navigate the ethical landscape surrounding layoffs.
Chief Data Officers, like Wendy, play a pivotal role in shaping technological progress while responsibly addressing societal implications.
Don't miss this thought-provoking discussion!
Full episode here: https://lnkd.in/gy_sxrzy#cdo#generativeai#societalimpact
😴 When I started doing #userresearch on video genAI tools, I was yawning a little bit, thinking: "it's just not there yet." And then I got to start working on UR for the Lightricks video genAI tool..... 🔥
and well, things turned around from there. Truly incredible -- link to join the waiting list and the TechCrunch article is in the first comment :)
Customer success (CS)
3moIt's amazing to see our office filled with founders.