Innovation
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 MoreChatGPT-4, PaLM 2 (Bard), Llama 2, or Falcon 180B? Nothing like healthy technology competition to raise the bar!
Since January, the world has been excited and gone mad with ChatGPT by OpenAI. Formerly an open-source company, but once Microsoft pumped $10B into OpenAI, it became a commercial company like all the other tech players. We have all been delighted with ChatGPT’s potential across the world. In parallel, Meta’s LLM Llama 2 and Google’s PaLM…
Read MoreAI and Music (XdMind Inc.): The Journey Has Begun!
Over the last few months, we have heard the term “Generative AI” and Music a lot. Sometimes also referred to as AI-generated music, non-musicians using computer algorithms effectively producing music, vs. artists, musicians, music labels, and studios. Clearly, this can be a bit alarming, if one assumes there will be an immediate replacement of…
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 MoreBillions of Things and Cyber Security
Over the last many months, I have been engaged in great conversations with colleagues about what cyber security will look like when we have billions of things connected in our future hyper-connected IoT world. How do you control and manage cyber security and illegal access when you will have tens of billions of connection points?…
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 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…
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