Gartner’s AI Hype Cycle — Way Passed its Due Date… And are We Entering a Classical ML Winter?When looking at Gartner’s 2023 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence one can only come to one conclusion: the hype cycle itself has…Sep 6, 20239Sep 6, 20239
The $113M Mistral AI seed round — why so much hate?I’ve seen a lot of frustration towards Mistral AI and their $113M seed round on social media lately. Here are some of my reflections about…Jun 22, 20232Jun 22, 20232
Published inBetter ProgrammingThoughts on Twitter ‘open sourcing’ its recommendation algorithm — and learnings for startups and…Since the end of November and the launch of ChatGPT, the discussion around AI/ML has been entirely dominated by generative AI, Large…Apr 3, 20231Apr 3, 20231
How did this B2B SaaS startup founded in 2020 raise a $300M round at a $10B valuation in early 2023?Wiz — a multi-cloud security startup founded in 2020 — just raised 300M$ at a $10B valuation. In this market climate. How is this possible…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Some personal musings around the YC W23 Generative AI LandscapeThere are 36 AI/ML-related startups in this YC Winter Batch out of the 201 startups accepted in total.Feb 23, 20232Feb 23, 20232
The 2023 edition of the Machine Learning, AI and Data Landscape — a quick analysisThe latest MAD (Machine Learning, AI and Data) Landscape is out again! A huge kudos for the tremendous work Matt Turck and the team…Feb 22, 20231Feb 22, 20231
Published inBetter ProgrammingThe greatest startup turnaround in developer tooling history — and learnings for foundersIn the US alone 340 unicorns were minted in 2021 according to data from PitchBook. This compared to 100 new US unicorns minted in 2020, 78…Feb 9, 2023Feb 9, 2023
Published inBetter ProgrammingChatGPT, LLMs and Foundation models — a closer look into the hype and implications for startupsNo matter the industry you work in, you’ve had to be living under the rock the miss the generative AI hype catalyzed by OpenAI making…Mar 2, 20233Mar 2, 20233
Published inBetter ProgrammingDuckDB — What’s the Hype About?This was a blog post that I already planned to write during the spring when I saw that the hype around DuckDB started taking new heights…Dec 29, 202214Dec 29, 202214
Published inBetter ProgrammingIs It Time To Rebrand (or Rethink) the Modern Data Stack?Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022
