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Generative AI is Coming for Insurance May 2023 Fintech Newsletter Andreessen Horowitz

It’s not hard to imagine a world where we all have an AI-powered “digital twin” trained on all of our writing and, eventually, speech. Beyond learning specific subjects, students are leveraging AI assistants in their assignments. Tools like Grammarly, Orchard, and Lex help students beat writer’s block and “level up” their writing.

With Visa+, Visa simplifies how merchants can receive payments; instead of having to integrate with three or four P2P providers, they can now (potentially) just integrate with one. The same applies for employers, who would prefer to integrate with just one wallet provider, not five. Visa’s involvement and additional layer of authentication also provides participating P2P platforms with some amount of fraud detection and securityIt also allows the company to strategically sit  in the middle of all P2P transactions. This scenario can also potentially extend to cross-border use cases; for example, a user of a wallet that operates in the U.S. could send money to a Visa+ user in Kenya, even if the two wallets didn’t do cross-border payments.

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China has a vastly different vision for AI than we do – they view it as a mechanism for authoritarian population control, full stop. They are not even being secretive about this, they are very clear about it, and they are already pursuing their agenda. These are such mindblowing ideas for people who have not been exposed to them that it may take you some time to wrap your head around them. But I swear I’m not making them up – in fact you can read all about them in standard economics textbooks.

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The most obvious application here is to summarize high volumes of information that humans could never digest themselves directly. Even in cases where generative AI is useful for longer blog posts, the prompt must be precise and prescriptive. That is, before the AI can express them in long form, the authors must already have a clear understanding of the concepts that represent the substance of the blog post.

We encourage entrepreneurs interested in this space to focus their efforts on the areas that are still unexplored, such as “Runway for Games”. It’s going to take a while to figure out how to fully leverage the power of this coming generative AI revolution. We know several studios who have internal experimental projects underway to explore how these techniques can impact production. At the moment these models are claiming to operate under the “fair use” copyright doctrine, but this argument has not yet been definitively tested in court. It seems clear that legal challenges are coming which will likely shift the landscape of generative AI.

Yakov Livshits
Founder of the DevEducation project
A prolific businessman and investor, and the founder of several large companies in Israel, the USA and the UAE, Yakov’s corporation comprises over 2,000 employees all over the world. He graduated from the University of Oxford in the UK and Technion in Israel, before moving on to study complex systems science at NECSI in the USA. Yakov has a Masters in Software Development.

Ideogram AI is also committed to ensuring that its AI tools are trustworthy and safe, and that they respect the rights and preferences of users and creators. The potential for widespread AI integration presents exciting prospects for industries across the board. From education and healthcare to finance and entertainment, AI has the potential to enhance efficiency and augment human capabilities. Embracing AI technology early on not only facilitates better comprehension but also paves the way for increased creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills in individuals.

• Today’s market represents a radically different fundraising climate—one not seen in nearly 15 years.
• No, that’s not going to happen – and in fact AI, if allowed to develop and proliferate throughout the economy, may cause the most dramatic and sustained economic boom of all time, with correspondingly record job and wage growth – the exact opposite of the fear.
• For example, generative AI is good for writing short copy for ads or product descriptions; we have seen many B2B applications demonstrate impressive growth in this area.
• Next, we go deep on technical learning resources; practical guides to building with large language models (LLMs); and analysis of the AI market.
• For SaaS incumbents, the real winners at the application layer are likely to be those who can figure out how to evolve a system of record into a system of prediction and, eventually, execution.

As a result, only 15 companies on the list currently have a live mobile app, and almost all of them see less than 10% of total monthly traffic come from their app versus the web. The top 50 list is an almost even 3-way split between companies that (1) trained their own proprietary model, (2) fine-tuned an existing model, and (3) built a consumer UI on top of an existing model (e.g., “GPT wrappers”). However, it’s worth noting that of the top 10 products, half are built on their own model, while 4 are fine tunes—only one falls in the “wrapper” category.

A16z’s analysis of where the competitive moats exist and do not is worth noting. The likely rise of vertical end-to-end applications that include both a proprietary model and the application functionality is an important consideration. Zibra AI aims to use the funding to expand its team and fuel the growth of its innovative generative AI technology.

The opportunity isn’t just making existing games faster and cheaper, but in unlocking a new category of AI-first games that weren’t possible before. We don’t know exactly what shape these games will take, but we do know that the history of the games industry has been one of technology driving new forms of play. The potential prize is enormous – with systems like generative agents, personalization, AI storytelling, dynamic world building, and AI copilots, we may be on the cusp of seeing the first NeverEnding games created by AI-first developers. Many developers are also excited about the potential to augment procedural generation with machine learning. A designer could one day iteratively generate a workable first draft of a level using a model trained on existing levels similar in style. Earlier this year, Shyam Sudhakaran led a team from the University of Copenhagen to create MarioGPT – a GPT2 tool that can generate Super Mario levels using a model trained on the original levels of Super Mario 1 and 2.

For consumers, LLMs may soon be able to give you recipe ideas then order the groceries you need, or suggest a brunch spot and book your table. In the enterprise, founders can make their apps easier to use by plugging in LLMs. Startups like Cohere and Adept are working on integrations into these kinds of complex tools. There is a lot of to-do about the defensibility or lack of defensibility for AI companies.

If they scale customers and revenue fast enough, they can raise a lot of funding at a high valuation and use that to build their own proprietary model based on an open source code base. That can enable them to save tremendous cost on renting someone else’s model and capture better margins which can then be used to grow market share. Founded in 2021 in Kyiv, Ukraine, Zibra AI is building a platform for creating AI-Generated Yakov Livshits 3D assets for any virtual world or experience. It works with the mission to revolutionise the development process, enabling gamers to enjoy new gaming titles more frequently rather than waiting years for releases. Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ideogram, which offers generative text-to-image technology, has launched its platform with $22.3 million CAD ($16.5 million USD) in seed funding.