• 30 December 2024
    December 30, 2024
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Yearend Thoughts on Enterprise AI

AI
In my second yearend post, I write about enterprise AI from two perspectives. As a venture capital investor with an all-AI startup portfolio. As a corporate advisor helping enterprises apply discriminative and generative AI. The biggest venture financing rounds during 2024 involved AI companies. About $30 billion was invested in […]
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  • 10 September 2024
    September 10, 2024
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Mobility Intelligence and Neurosymbolic Systems

AI
Many of you know our firm for its investments in early-stage AI software startups and as a trusted AI advisor to corporations. However, fewer are aware of the AI systems we’ve been developing and how we deploy them with our corporate clients or in the startups we create. In recent […]
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The Struggles Enterprises Face with Generative AI

Big Data
A few days ago I attended the strategy meeting of a portfolio company. Like all of our Synapse Partners portfolio companies, this one provides AI solutions to enterprise customers. Their initial success is in the medical devices industry. While reviewing the company’s sales pipeline and the progress of delivering the […]
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Autonomous Vehicles Employing An End-to-End AI Approach

AI, Autonomous Vehicles
Of the many autonomous vehicle (AV) use cases, two continue to receive the most attention: robotaxis and autonomous trucks of various form factors. AI is one of autonomous mobility’s key enabling technologies. To achieve the determinism required in mobility, the AV software platforms in use today incorporated a combination of […]
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Where Are We With Enterprise Generative AI?

AI
Despite the noise from high-tech corporations, startups, venture investors, and analysts, we are still in a very early phase of generative AI. As a result, it is hard to assume, let alone declare, that generative AI will transform every business process driving operational efficiencies, create new revenue streams, result in […]
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  • 06 February 2024
    February 6, 2024
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Enterprises Finding Value With Generative AI

AI
Enterprises use several different technologies, including AI, to automate their processes and create value. They are currently experimenting with generative AI to determine whether it can provide significant and enduring value. Is the enterprise’s excitement about generative AI justified? Is the size of the investments being made and planned warranted? […]
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CES 2024: AI and SDVs

AI
Another CES is behind us. The automotive and mobility extravaganza of years past was replaced this year by an AI extravaganza. For the automakers and their suppliers that participated at CES this year was about AI and Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs). There were lots of demos involving AI and SDVs, and […]
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2024 Enterprise AI Themes

AI
Since the beginning of last year, the interest in AI has gone into overdrive. Enterprises tried to “out-announce” one another regarding their use of AI. Similarly, venture investors have been investing large sums at nosebleed valuations in startups developing anything that appears to involve generative AI. But, despite the corporate […]
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  • 19 September 2023
    September 19, 2023
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Succeeding in the Era of Generative AI

AI
As with every previous AI era, the benefits promised to the enterprise from the application of generative AI will likely be lower than those that will be achieved. To succeed, enterprises must avoid the pitfalls of the previous AI eras. Over my 40-year career in enterprise AI, I understood the […]
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