Last week’s David Fernandez Vinuales in representation of #DeCH.at attended the Generative AI Symposium in Palo Alto offered valuable insights from industry leaders and investors.
These were the our key takeaways:
NVIDIA
highlighted the transition from experimentation to production in AI, emphasizing use cases with positive ROI and infrastructure scaling. They discussed synthetic data generation and model boosting techniques with special focus on RAG as the goto solution.
SAP
stressed the importance of product UX in AI applications, noting that poor experiences can significantly impact costs.
The VC panel, featuring representatives from BDev Ventures, Bay Bridge Ventures, and Insight Partners, shared their investment strategies:
– Cautious excitement about AI’s potential
– Focus on companies with sustainable business models and clear moats
Interest in areas like GPU orchestration, data privacy, and regulatory compliance
– Emphasis on solving real-world problems in B2B contexts
– Investors are looking for founder-market fit and coachability.
VCs overall are cautious about accelerated valuations but see opportunities in cost-reduction and sustainable businesses.
Notable investment areas included digital twins for fuel efficiency, AI-powered headless CMS, and platforms for training small LLMs on CPUs.
We also had the opportunity to talk and engage with other Startup founders and see the amount of innovations around the world of Generative AI. It was impressive.
The symposium underscored the rapid evolution of the AI landscape and the need for strategic, sustainable approaches to AI development and investment.
Thanks Murray Newlands for the organization and incredible insights.
hashtag#GenerativeAI hashtag#AIInvestment hashtag#TechInnovation hashtag#ConversationalAI
