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Beware of Confident Liars: Why Your Data Matters More Than Your Model Size

Beware of Confident Liars: Why Your Data Matters More Than Your Model Size

There's a common refrain in AI circles: open-source LLMs can't compete, small models are garbage, and frontier providers like Anthropic or OpenAI will always outperform everyone else. That's increasingly untrue. Unless your task is writing a poem or an essay about the French Revolution.

Bottom-Up is the New Top-Down: How AI Rewrites the Rules of Digital Transformation in the Enterprise.

Bottom-Up is the New Top-Down: How AI Rewrites the Rules of Digital Transformation in the Enterprise.

Digital transformation has become the corporate world's most expensive failure. Despite investing over $100 billion between 2016 and 2018 alone, a staggering 70-80% of transformation initiatives crash and burn, according to consistent findings from McKinsey, Gartner, and BCG. The culprit? An outdated, top-down approach that's fundamentally

QRX: Merging Art and Technology in QR Codes

QRX: Merging Art and Technology in QR Codes

In today’s digital landscape, QR codes are ubiquitous and their usage continues to grow exponentially. According to recent data, the global QR code market is expected to reach $21.14 billion by 2027, growing at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.2% from 2020 to 2027. QR

Corporate Venturing done right: Aligning Incentives for Innovation

Corporate Venturing done right: Aligning Incentives for Innovation

Corporate venturing is a promising avenue for innovation where large corporations leverage their strategic assets (cash reserves, intellectual property, client networks, industry knowledge, etc.) to build new startups. This approach should give these corporate-born startups unfair advantages compared to the proverbial “Startup founded in my parent’s garage” and thus