Disruption
Oct 7, 2024: OpenAI’s $6.6B Raise & Unreal Valuation Consequences
Last week was the craziest week in Gen AI history. The biggest headline was about OpenAI raising a massive $6.6B round, setting the company’s valuation at over $150B. While previously, OpenAI has raised far more than $6B, in the history of tech company (private) fundraising, we have not seen this level of valuation. Of course, startups (tech companies) set…
Read MoreXdMind™: The Intelligent Music Discovery and Adaptation Solution
XdMind Inc.™ is the only fully patented end-to-end AI solution INTELLIGENTLY connecting music of all kinds to end users in video games, video social, and more. XdMind™ works with all sources of music: Music from labels, publishers, indie’s, AI, and GenAI music. And all end users of music, video gamers, social media video users, and…
Read MoreThe Battle Between the World of MUSIC & AI
Since January of 2024, we have seen a significant growth in the number of companies generating music via AI, GenAI Music Companies. Let’s remember that the concept of Generative AI (i.e. ChatGPT and similar algorithms) is to generate new music using ‘training data sets’ which in the world of music, is generally music from artists and…
Read MoreApple iPhone… Please Start Innovating and Imagining Again!
Apple has been one of the great innovators of our age – there is no arguing that! But, what is happening at Apple Computers today (and for the last ~10 years) is less than what I’d expect from the tech giant. Incremental innovation is all I’ve seen, and we’re witnessing the decline of a great…
Read MorePersonalized Music: Imagine!
For decades, as consumers and lovers of music, we have only had a choice of the medium of music to purchase: Do we buy a record, a CD, a track? Do we stream or do we listen to streaming playlists? No matter how much we love music, we really have not had a choice in ‘curating’ or…
Read MoreDisruptive Technology is ALWAYS Greeted with Doubt, Skepticism and Rejection
Every disruptive technology is greeted with doubt, skepticism, and rejection. That is the normal trend. In 2002-2005 when as the founder of my startup ConnecTerra Inc, by all accounts the world’s first official IoT company, I started talking to folks about how everything would get on the internet and the economy would be shifting. As…
Read MoreBusiness Etiquette – Even on Zoom!
This is not a debate about whether to Zoom or not-to Zoom. Clearly the virtual, remote, and emerging hybrid business environments are surviving via Zoom, Teams, etc. Whether we are having a meeting via Zoom or in person, there are still some polite manners that should be required. For example, if ½ the people…
Read MoreWhy is Your Company Resisting Using AI???
This article in Financial Times refreshed a question that I have been struggling with for a long time: Why are companies hesitant to use AI? AI is all around us and everyone has heard about it. Large companies with massive engineering staff are refusing to use AI, and I think this article points out one…
Read MoreNetflix: What Is Your Comeback Plan?
Over the last 6 months, we have seen a 70% drop in Netflix’s stock price, taking its biggest hits in the last few weeks. It was clear this would happen and I will explain why, but first, this begs the question: Why was Netflix so unprepared? Netflix is respected as one of the most innovative…
Read MoreZoom, Teams: Why Not Innovate Mindfully and With More Impact?
In March of 2020, the world changed. Within days, one of the largest digital evolutions happened, globally! Tens of millions of people around the world, at the same time, reverted to virtual communications, instead of in person. Digital became the norm; Zoom and Microsoft Teams exploded. Given the trajectory ahead, it was clear that the…
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