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Enterprises seek deeper AI value beyond chat

Published April 15, 2024 by Carlos Veira

Enterprises seek deeper AI value beyond chatEnterprises seek deeper AI value beyond chat

A few days ago David Vellante posted a summary in LinkedIn about a Breaking Analysis from theCUBE Research about the state of GenAI in the Enterprise.

It is a very interesting reading with lots of data points and reflections about the market behavior.

🎯 Data Points I found interesting

  1. Enterprise use cases are ChatGPT-like (not surprised).
  2. AI-monetization doesn't follow the hype (not surprised).
  3. Complex Use Cases, Longer ROIs and Paybacks, but higher upsides (not surprised)
  4. Investments in GPUs <10M will wait 1 year to be fulfilled.
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Summary and Initial Thoughts of the OpenAI DevDay

Published November 7, 2023 by Carlos Veira

Summary and Initial Thoughts of the OpenAI DevDayOpenAI DevDay: Opening Keynote

Yesterday, OpenAI held its first-ever DevDay conference.

Here you have a quick summary of the announcements presented:

  1. More speed.
  2. Price reductions.
  3. More Capabilities.
  4. Platform Play: Marketplace for customized GPTs + Revenue Sharing Schemes. 👈

On the Capabilities front, they announced:

  1. 128k context window. 👈
  2. New version of Whisper.
  3. Reduced knowledge gap: now updated until April 2023. 👈
  4. Improved fine-tuning.
  5. Custom Model Program for very large datasets.
  6. More deterministic behavior and better tools to manage this.
  7. Conversation Threads to hand off state management to OpenAI.
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A crisis of spending and cloud-based GenAI

Published October 5, 2023 by Carlos Veira

A crisis of spending and cloud-based GenAIA crisis of spending and cloud-based generative AI

A few days ago, David Linthicum published a summary on LinkedIn about an article he wrote on InfoWorld about this topic.

However, besides the points made in the article, I believe that some strategic thinking can also help here. There is always something else after the hype: they call it the “Trough of Disillusionment”. Knowing this raises questions:

  1. can we be smarter now to spend less time “there”?
  2. what can we do now to ensure that trust between stakeholders remains “healthy” when those “bad times” come?
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Decomposing the Value Chain in the Cloud

Published May 4, 2019 by Carlos Veira

Decomposing the Value Chain in the CloudDecomposing The Value Chain In The Cloud

Back when consumer USB drives were flooding the market, it was quite common to witness how people would challenge datacenter-grade storage. They would do so by comparing it with devices they could readily buy on any retail store immediately and inexpensively. By comparison, IT storage was costly and slower to deliver.

Perceptive observers could think that, either there was a scam going on… or, most probably, those two things were not exactly the same …

The funny thing is that the same still (yes, still) happens with Cloud Services.…

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Additional thoughts about Cloud Portability

Published February 25, 2019 by Carlos Veira

Additional thoughts about Cloud PortabilityAdditional thoughts about Cloud Portability

 

Despite how much I love the Cloud, it would be foolish to ignore the many challenges that it poses. And, when concepts such as Liquid IT or Multi-Cloud become part of the agenda, one of those is, without a doubt, Portability.

Back when I was a member of the Atos Scientific Community, I was one of the authors of a whitepaper that addressed this very same topic. Since then, I was fortunate enough to witness other points of view about the subject and some have certainly got me thinking.…

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Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”

Published March 21, 2014 by Carlos Veira

Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell — Part 2: “The Dark Side”

What we have seen on our previous post may seem interesting and powerful. Essentially, what we are doing is opening the door to creating local datasets with personally identifiable information coming from our Social Networks. That's a pretty big deal. Therefore, there are a couple of things that we need to understand before going forward.

Privacy, Law and Ethics

Usually, on Digital Media, whenever you can access some information is because you have rights and permissions to do so. However, I would like you to consider the difference between “can” and “should”.…

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Taking the Social Media Interconnection Map to the Next Level

Published October 26, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Taking the Social Media Interconnection Map to the Next LevelTaking the Social Media Interconnection Map to the Next Level

Sooner or later we all end up having our own instance of a Social Media mashup. Our Interconnection Map will, hopefully, fulfill our needs and evolve with us and with time. However, no matter how complex it is, it will only address our more basic integration or automation needs.

The attention economy and relationships in the on-line world are heavily driven or influenced by the content we share. Unfortunately, content curation can be very time consuming. In other words, if we have to fight for audience attention, it is very likely that we start pushing our available resources to the limits:

  • maybe we are focused on some knowledge areas, but let many others uncovered.
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Watch out! Twitter is no longer a trusted Social Media Hub

Published October 15, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Watch out! Twitter is no longer a trusted Social Media Hub

That Twitter wants to exercise more control over their user’s experience and, hence, its whole ecosystem, it is not new. Until now, Twitter’s moves in this direction haven’t had major and practical impact on how we were used to consume the service. For example:

Ok, I admit that this second one, represents a threat for some users and developers in the medium term.…

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Social Media Interconnection Map for 2012

Published September 3, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Social Media Interconnection Map for 2012

Last year I started looking at ways to handle the amount of Social Media presence in a reasonable way. Then, I came up with a Social Media Interconnection Map and a set of design rules, principles and guidelines that we could take into account shall we wanted to build our own.

Unfortunately, everything moves insanely fast in the technology space and so many things have changed since that first proposal. In fact, I have had to adapt my original design several times over the past months due to a number of reasons:

  1. new players have emerged or exploded: Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Posterous, Instagram, SlideShare, LinksAlpha, ifttt, dlvr.it
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By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)

Published August 27, 2012 by Carlos Veira

By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)

Innovation = Sales activity

This paradigm usually appears when a customer tells you that he “misses innovative proposals from you”. As you might have figured out, this is a Sales activity but not an Innovation one: Proposing something is selling, not innovating.

Anyway, we must question ourselves who is really innovating just in case we’ve successfully sold something innovative:

  • We?
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