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This week, we’re sharing data on the top 50 consumer GenAI web products by monthly visits for the first half of the year, the latest opportunities (and challenges) within global fintech, applying the “Jobs to be Done” framework to AI in healthcare, and more.
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It’s been 9 months since ChatGPT was released and 7 months since it became the fastest consumer application to reach 100 million monthly active users, ushering in a new era of generative AI.
But other than ChatGPT, how are consumers interacting with generative AI (GenAI) products? In which categories do incumbents dominate—and where are new companies breaking out? Who might be the next “big winner”?
To begin to answer these questions, we looked at SimilarWeb traffic data (as of June 2023) to rank the top 50 GenAI web products by monthly visits. We also analyzed how these products have grown over time, and where growth is coming from.
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by Angela Strange, Alex Rampell, Joe Schmidt, and Gabriel Vasquez
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Software is inherently global and easily transcends borders—localizing it can be as easy as translating the language. The globalization of money, however, is considerably more challenging.
As the company of the future becomes default global, there is now a real catalyst for change. That issue is driving top fintech entrepreneurs to pursue cross-border infrastructure that is more easily integrated—as well as full-stack solutions for businesses.
Here’s where we see opportunities to build, plus:
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by Jay Rughani, Daisy Wolf, Vijay Pande, and Julie Yoo
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In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series–Commercializing AI in Healthcare.
This article uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare.
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with Andrew Ng, Vijay Pande, Kris Tatiossian, and Olivia Webb
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Andrew Ng, PhD, a distinguished authority in the field of AI and Adjunct Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health. They discuss the implications of integrating AI into many areas of our lives, as well as how AI could become foundational to many industries—and what needs to happen to make that future a reality.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (or so science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once famously said).
One such area of sci-fi-like progress is that of zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic tool that could be the key to ushering in many more users to crypto/web3—as well as to unlocking other applications beyond crypto, such as transmitting sensitive data securely, combating illicit finance through privacy-preserving regulatory solutions, and fighting disinformation.
So in this post and special video demo, a16z crypto explores a new analogy for demystifying zero-knowledge proofs: a magic trick.
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with David Marcus and Sonal Chokshi
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From the web3 with a16z podcast comes a wide-ranging conversation with Lightspark’s David Marcus, formerly co-founder of Diem (aka Libra and Novi, the cryptocurrency project initiated by Facebook) and president of PayPal, on company building big to small; the relationship between centralization, decentralization, platforms, and financial freedom; moving from web2 to web3 in both crypto and payments; why bitcoin; views on what cadence and when is the right time to ship; remote work, and more.
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Our popular accelerator program, Crypto Startup School, is going to London! The twelve-week program for early-stage companies provides expert guidance, capital, and resources tailored for crypto founders. The program focuses on speeding up founders’ paths to product-market fit and setting them up for long-term growth and success.
Applications for Spring 2024 are now open!
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with John Gedmark and Steph Smith
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We’re in the midst of a space renaissance. The cost of launching payloads to orbit has dramatically dropped, and in 2022, a record 186 rocket launches (41 more than the previous year!) underscores this shift.
In Part 1 of our satellite economy mini-series, we sit down with John Gedmark, co-founder of Astranis, to reflect on today's innovations, who’s on the other side of the satellite market, the capabilities they’re looking for, the competition, and Astranis’ mission to provide internet access to 4 billion underserved people.
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TipTop offers customers a guaranteed buyback price for products at the time of purchase.
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by Chris Dixon and Joshua Lu
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Proof of Play is an on-chain game studio and tech company that’s committed to building a future with composability, interoperability, and permanence at the core of gameplay.
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Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
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by Joshua Lu and Andrew Chen
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Series AI is a game studio and technology company that is reinventing the future of game development with generative AI.
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Bastion helps companies seamlessly integrate web3 infrastructure into enterprise technologies through a compliant, white-label platform.
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Freatic is using cryptography and game theory to build a decentralized marketplace for information exchange.
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