Category: Enablers
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Economic Agents
AI Agents negotiating and trading with each other including payment is rapidly becoming a reality. But the mainstream AIs have not learnt about it yet…. we asked Claude from Anthropic… which is normally on point. #ai conversations #claude #negotation #payment The concept of AI agents autonomously negotiating and paying each…
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AI Approaching Human Brain Like Efficiency
The latest research on “Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling” has far-reaching implications for AI. By eliminating matrix multiplication, it increases computational efficiency and reduces memory usage. It also offers insights into future AI hardware and the democratization of advanced AI technologies. The choice between “artificial intelligence” and “machine intelligence” comes down…
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Tech Trends 2024
CB Insights has released their latest forecasts rollup. They explore the concept of AI mind reading. For more details, visit: https://www.cbinsights.com/reports/CB-Insights_Tech-Trends-2024.pdf.
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The centre of the tech startup universe is moving from the USA to Asia
A string of data and opinions have been released in recent days that support the view that the global tech startup ecosystem centre is shifting towards Asia and Australasia – where population growth and performance are increasingly leading the world. CrunchBase says US Regional VC investments in tech are in…
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The future of tech is outside Silicon Valley
Peter Thiel – known for his investments in Paypal, Facebook, AirBnB and Palantir – spoke in Saudi Arabia about his strong views on the topic of ‘the future of tech’ this week. He believes tech will increasingly be created outside the US and California has lost their monopoly. This reinforces the views…
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New Harvard Research shows how to put a big rocket under your startup portfolio performance
Diversity and diversification are the keys Investing in tech startups is hard, particularly global ones. Finding these gems in the wild takes unique insight, experience and a huge network of specialists. On the same day that Elon Musk unveiled how he is going to take us to the Moon and…
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The Way Forward for Innovation in Australia
Old innovation ecosystem models are broken, it is time to realise the open models based around startups (particularly scalable global product based tech startups) are the key to our future. The above diagram by StartupCommons summarises the change in focus at a macro level, we also need to look at…
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Facial recognition goes mainstream
Home and office facial recognition is now a plug and play exercise set to go mainstream (thanks to crowd sourcing) in homes, small businesses and maybe even departmentally in corporates and government from as little as $200. Combine this with integration services that are now also rapidly becoming cheap and…
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Blockchain hot spots
As blockchain outstrips bitcoin in fintech what are the hot areas? CB Insights has some insightful views, looks a bit like Google Trends…
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Australia – Central To Asian Century
The recent discussion about Australia’s Asian Century is simply one of our largest opportunities but also one of our largest understated achievements. Australia has always been part of Asia. The recent statements by the current government are merely playing catchup and grabbing easy headlines. The reality is we have been closely part…
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