B2BaCEO Newsletter: April 2023

04.09.23

Software ate the world. Now AI is coming for software. I chart three implications of this paradigm shift. I give a primer on large graphical models (LGMs). And I recap my partner Sid’s SXSW discussion with cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch.

 

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