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  • AI and investment scale

    Currently, investors are investing up to five times more capital in AI companies. In recent years, these AI companies have been exploring business ...
  • Large World Model

    Do you know the difference between zooming and dollying? Zooming in is a technique that uses a telephoto lens to increase the magnification of a su...
  • Labor Productivity and AI

    First, take a look at this graph. It shows the relationship between AI and labor productivity. The data shows that startups with higher sales per ...
  • AI Shopping

    AI doesn't have a wallet or a credit card. Even if an AI agent can shop freely, there will be no innovation if humans ultimately have to make paym...
  • The Mystery of the Hype Cycle

    What does this diagram suggest? A mountain hut on top of a mountain? Mount Fuji erupting? No, no, this is a "hype cycle" proposed by Gartner, a cut...
  • "Continue"

    The key to success is to "keep going and not give up." This is a lesson I've learned from following hundreds, even thousands, of startups over the...
  • What are unprofitable customers?

    On average, for cloud services, only 5 out of 1,000 site visitors convert to the paid version. The problem isn't the low 0.5% conversion rate, but ...
  • Moravec's Baradox

    There is a paradox that what is easy for humans is difficult for AI and robots, and vice versa. For example, advanced inference using vast amounts...
  • Imprinting the future

    In 1970, when he was seven years old, he was impressed by a moving robot at the Osaka Expo, and later went on to study robotics. Nearly half a cen...
  • What we want is not "candidates" but "answers"

    In today's world, where time is of the essence, even searching can be a waste of time. Entering a search term only yields a list of related site UR...
  • Can generative AI create real products?

    While it may seem possible to create real products from generative AI, there's a major hurdle: "simulation." Digital content like images and videos...
  • A mixed team of humans and AI

    AI talent is the final card to increase employee productivity. Companies hire AI talent not to reduce staff numbers, but to increase labor producti...