@levie: A small percentage of useful data is on the open web available to all models for training or for agents to operate with…
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Aaron Levie argues that most valuable data resides inside organizations, not on the open web, and that effectively getting this data to AI agents will define competitive advantage in the future.
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A small percentage of useful data is on the open web available to all models for training or for agents to operate with. Most of it lives inside of organizations and often is in legacy systems, in people’s heads, or is fragmented across the enterprise.
It’s the marketing plans, product roadmaps, development practices, contracts, financial data, strategies, and general corporate knowledge that every company operates off of.
Whether it’s for training a model or used as context for agents, this data will increasingly be more valuable over time. The ability to get the right data to agents to operate on, securely, will be a defining characteristic of how companies operate and compete in the future.
Effective use of AI will in the economy will largely come down to the companies that are able to have agents best understand their business and make the right decisions on their behalf. Data actually is the new oil.
will depue (@willdepue): A Stargate for Data
Labs are on a trajectory towards >$100B/year of data spend by 2030. As we begin the trillion-dollar compute project, we need to think about the equivalent civilizational-scale effort for the other core ingredient: data.
At the foundation of the scaling
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