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Could Tacnode be the next Databricks? Yes. Imagine the world before writing. Before books. People had to learn everything from scratch. Thanks to writing, thanks to books, knowledge compounded. Everyone could learn from each other. Today's AI agents don't yet have their version of writing or books. They operate in isolation, without the shared understanding or context of what previous agen...

The promise of deploying autonomous AI agents at scale hinges on infrastructure and architectural truths. AI isn’t magic or a silver bullet. It most definitely isn’t one size fits all. What did it accomplish?  What steps were taken to get there?  What was the general knowledge vs more specialized, subject matter expertise required? What logic was introduced and how did it reason along the way? Jas...

There's a short list of people who shaped my AI journey before I even knew it was a journey. Henrik Werdelin is at the top of that list. We met in NYC in 2011. A few months before he launched BARK . I was the furthest thing from technical. He had a gazillion things going on. But he made time, answered every question and never made me feel like I was behind. Those conversations in NYC accelerat...

Creativity is magic. 75% of your creative team’s week is logistics, 25% is actually creating. What happens when you invert that? Shane Hegde has spent eight years fixing that problem and the implications for modern CMOs are staggering. Most CMOs have no visibility into what content their org is creating, where it’s going or how it performs. Shane drew the parallel to a CRO with no pipeline view, s...

Would you believe me if I told you there’s an autonomous AI agent platform that enables anyone with a business idea to outsource to a swarm of AI agents to handle everything except what the founder wants to focus on? Would you believe me if I told you this company has seen its ARR run rate grow from $0 to $100K to $1.5M in a few weeks, with a trajectory that looks less like a hockey stick and more...

AI with Alec E26 with Greg Boone. 5 reasons to watch? 1: Greg says the quiet part out loud 2: The era of the lone “idea guy or gal” is over, now everyone can build 3: You can’t mandate your way through AI transformation, never underestimate psychological safety 4: AI isn’t an intern, it’s an everything machine, an “IDE for business people” 5: AI native interns crush month long projects in days, ar...

The way Chase Clark, Lead UX Researcher at Calm, demonstrates how AI is augmenting his workflows with real, tangible examples is outstanding. Personification of “hands in the dirt” use of AI that produces real, measurable results. The kind that all leaders want to generate. 1: Time Compression at Scale: 2 hours → 5 minutes, 2 weeks → 2 days Not just time saved, it’s all about accelerated learning....

Want to see AI-first at scale? Check out Thomas Menard and the rockstar team at L’Oreal showing us how it’s done. Embracing AI to drive “idea to impact” in less than 90 days for a 100,000 person enterprise is impressive. To do it in May 2024 is outrageous. My man Thomas Menard is a “good pirate” who personifies the “ship fast, learn, iterate” approach. No analysis paralysis. No tech for tech’s sak...

If you know who Evident is, you understand why I was so stoked to interview co-founder / co-CEO Alexandra Mousavizadeh. If you don’t know Evident, let’s fix that. Evident is all about data and benchmarking the embrace of AI across Financial Services. And you know what they say about data driven conversations? They’re super objective aka the best.1: AI doesn’t remove thinking, AI allows you to “thi...

Is the failure rate for enterprise AI POCs super high because they’re “science projects” solving a problem that’s already been solved? Guest Bret Greenstein, Chief AI Officer of West Monroe, dropping all sorts of knowledge in AI with Alec podcast E22:“We already know that AI can do this work. Proving value is actually sort of a cop-out.”“It's much more phases than POCs.”“A lot of POCs were don...

One of the most beautiful ways to describe the essence of the collaboration between athletes + coaches?“We see movement as a language that actually needs to be taught.”Ryan Talbot, co-founder and CEO of VueMotion dropped that phenomenal quote on me during our AI with Alec interview. VueMotion is “a computer vision AI machine learning technology” company that works with professional and collegiate...

Kyle Wallack’s art is phenomenal, but the way this “refined graffiti artist” has embraced AI? That’s an inspiration for artists everywhere. This AI with Alec interview is for you if you’re into… Street Art. AI enabling artists to spend more time creating art vs everything else. Intersection of culture, fashion, sports, creativity etc. Humans + Machines not Humans vs. Machines. 6 of my favorite par...

Enterprise AI agents help us “focus on making the beer taste better” aka the 20%+ of efforts that drive 80%+ of the results. Kurt Muehmel, Head of AI Strategy at Dataiku, returned to AI with Alec for another AI deep dive.  This time, the focus was enterprise AI agents and why they represent a fundamental shift in how work gets done. The thought provoking conversation moved through a number of crit...

Is AI thinking or just imitating our thinking? A new Apple research paper, "The Illusion of Thinking," suggests these reasoning models are doing the latter. Sophisticated mimicry at a previously unimaginable scale. In an AI with Alec fireside chat, I spoke to Henry Saba to gather his perspective on the paper and get his take on what this really means for businesses and builders in the ne...

If I told you the average employee toggles 1,200 times per day between applications, would you believe me? In my latest AI with Alec podcast, Chuck Doerr, co-Founder + CIO of HERE, not only confirmed this staggering reality but laid out a number of practical ways to operationalize enterprise AI aka translate the AI-first memo movement into results. An origin story that has resulted in deep and wid...

After meeting the client in real life, the first job for an Athena Intelligence client-facing leader is to “build a carbon copy of themselves in the product for the customer”...If that doesn’t capture your undivided attention, go to the 19 min and 12 second mark and listen to Brendon unpack this concept in 175 seconds. For laughs, watch my reaction...AI with Alec Episode #16 is with Brendon Geils,...

What if the data opportunity on the business side of Sports is bigger than what was profiled in Moneyball on the team / athlete side? I had a fascinating conversation with Josh Walker, co-founder and CEO of Sports Innovation Lab during an AI with Alec podcast episode who revealed the answer to that question and more. 1️⃣ Data Fragmentation + Silos: Teams sell rights to business partners handling c...

What’s the first thing you think when you hear about a start-up launching data centers into outer space? For me, it went like this: “Wait, what? Why outer space…ohhhh wow, the AI energy issue. That’s a massive idea…”Watch this AI with Alec episode with Philip Johnston, co-founder + CEO of Starcloud who is doing exactly that and has “the best space engineers in the world working on it.”1: A bunch o...

The enterprise AI playbook doesn’t exist. We’re all just trying to figure it out as we go. But thanks to AI leaders like Will Croushorn of Wendy’s, we get to hear insights from those doing the work. Will joined me again on an AI with Alec podcast and just like last time, he delivers with a refreshing amount of clarity. The kind that comes from hands in the dirt, enterprise AI experience.1: “There&...

In AI, there’s only one “Igor” and I am SO STOKED to share that he joined me for an AI with Alec interview. Please find time to hear legendary AI pioneer Igor Jablokov, founder + CEO of Pryon, move through all sorts of fascinating topics. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to Igor Jablokov 00:53 - Igor's Journey: From IBM to Siri and Alexa 02:24 - Understanding Pryon and Enterprise AI 04:47 - Work...

Since ChatGPT launched 2 years ago, a lot of sophisticated AI investors, entrepreneurs etc have suggested it’s not an “if” but a “when” a solopreneur will build a unicorn. Could Josh Mohrer, founder of Wave: AI Note Taker for iOS and Android, become that unicorn? What Josh has built by bootstrapping is incredible and a massive inspiration. Wave records 6,000+ hours per day for 22,000 subscribers…...

If you don't know about NotebookLM, now you know. It has ben described as "the next ChatGPT" and once you give it a shot, you'll experience the AI magic and know why. During the episode, we cover: 1: Re: AI, we're past "why" and all in on "how," especially within the Enterprise. 2: This isn't a promise to change the way you work, it's a tangible reality available to anyone. Right. Now. 3: The disc...

The 12 minute conversation was fascinating as we covered a lot including the following questions: 1: Why do bankers need more than just a chatbot? 2: How can AI enhance the combination of public and private data sets to create a valuable, accessible and Wall Street specific Knowledge Graph that ultimately enhances the art of storytelling around asset valuations? 3: What are the four parts of the R...