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A Decade of Deep Learning: How the AI Startup Experience Has Evolved
Of the Chinese giants, Baidu went into deep-learning research earliest—even trying to acquire Geoffrey Hinton’s startup in 2013 before being outbid by Google—and scored a major coup in 2014 when it recruited Andrew Ng to head up its Silicon Valley AI Lab. Within a year, that hire was showing outstanding results. By 2015, Baidu’s AI algorithms had e
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Many of the largest scale uses of AI to date have been at consumer-centric companies that have large data sets to train on (Google, Facebook, Uber, etc). Perhaps incumbents won due to a data advantage that is now going away as companies use the broader internet as an initial training set + are switching to models that work more robustly against sma... See more
Elad Gil • AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value
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Kai-Fu Lee • AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
The primary opportunity for startups is not to replace incumbent software companies—it’s to go after automatable pools of work.