The whiplash-inducing pace of change This week it would have been easy to write my ForwardThinking commentary about DeepSeek, the new model from China that had everyone buzzing about its impact and speculating what it means. Find your favorite writer or thought leader and there was surely an opinion.
Garbage in/Garbage Out applies more than ever to aI data Whenever I talk to people who are working with enterprise customers about AI, they inevitably need to talk about data first. That’s because the quality of the models depends on the quality of the data used to train
The AI pricing conundrum remains Unresolved We are a little over two years removed from OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, a moment that will be remembered as a pivotal shift in the technology landscape. Almost immediately, we felt the impact of that change, and it wasn’t long before every
Rumors of SaaS’s death may be exaggerated As we return from a holiday break and jump headlong into a new year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the speed of change inside large organizations, and how it doesn’t usually match technology hype cycles. I’ve been around
As AI Agents Take Center Stage In 2025, Many Questions Remain It’s the time of year where everyone is making predictions, and I’ve got an easy one: Agents are going to dominate in the enterprise in 2025 as companies begin to try and understand how to best incorporate
Writer AI Leaders forum shows what's possible with GenAI in the enterprise It’s been another busy week for me. I flew out to San Francisco on Monday to attend the Writer AI Leaders Forum. The main event was on Tuesday where I moderated two panels and had
AWS Returns To Its Roots, While Embracing The AI Future It was a busy week for me personally. I attended AWS re:Invent and also launched the FastForward blog and this newsletter. If you’re reading this today, thank you for subscribing! I made a few key observations as I