Technology
Innovation or Monopoly? OpenAI: $150B Valuation and Raising a $6B Round
Colleagues and friends, we all woke up this morning (hopefully after our first cup of coffee) and read the insane news that VCs are fighting to get in on the $6B raise that OpenAI is closing and OpenAI has now declared itself valuation to be a $150B. This is in addition to all the many…
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 MorePart I: GenAI Music: Innovate via XdMind, Not Fight Legal Copyright Battles!
We have all heard many things about GenAI music. When GenAI became available for mass consumption, we hit the era of GenAI-everything, Music included. Let’s talk about GenAI Music: GenAI Music will fill up the music pipeline with tens of millions of songs. Not by known artists, songwriters, or composers, but via algorithms. A few considerations/problems: What were…
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 MoreCutting AI Ethics Staff – Worst Decision by Big Tech Companies!
AI and algorithms are and will be used heavily by the tech industry and our society. It is more crucial than ever to monitor the accuracy of AI and the ethical obligations which come with assuring that information is correct, should be distributed, and the ethical consequences of having ‘algorithms’ replacing ‘human ethics and intellect.’…
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 MoreLayoff+: Tech Company Mega Layoffs plus Remote/Virtual Workforce
Fall of 2022 will without a doubt be when the major tech companies worldwide will do two things in parallel. 1. Layoff an unprecedented number of employees. AND 2. Slowdown and most likely freeze hiring at full tilt. The combination of these two events by themselves is significant, but we have seen this before. Layoffs…
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