DeepSeek Just “Opened” The Path To AI ROI - “Short term, that is bad news for NVIDIA because it will temper the demand. Longer term, however, the lower cost (and, thus, energy) will open up model creation opportunities for many, many more startups and enterprises alike, thereby increasing demand."

How Cloud Ingestion Pricing Eats Your Budget - ”Essentially, yes, the cloud can be cheaper — but only if you’re using it the right way.”

1,156 Questions Censored by DeepSeek - ”It will matter less once models similar to R1 are reproduced without these restrictions (which will probably be in a week or so)."

DeepSeek and the Enterprise - ”Enterprises that want to embrace AI, in other words, have reasons to want to do so on their own infrastructure. But that has posed its own set of challenges, challenges which have led many enterprises to scale back their ambitions and turn their eyes from large, expensive foundational models to small, more cost efficient and easily trained alternatives.”

Core Principles of AI Data Readiness - Maybe enterprise AI is all about getting your data into shape. Historically, that is very difficult. Good luck!

On the Undesign of Apple Intelligence Features - Yeah, I like the results and utilities of the Writing Tools, but the the UI is clunky as fuck. Plus, they don’t have Shortcuts support. That would be really useful. // “Writing Tools on MacOS is the most obviously flawed of the Apple Intelligence features suffering from weak implementation or questionable U.I. choices, but there are other examples, too."

IDG to divest Foundry, what’s next for IDC? - Forester and IDC merging would be awesome. They’re have great qualitative and quantitative coverage. And if they breathed new life into the Wave, maybe by adding in IDC’s market estimates, that’d be interesting.

Struggling with your marketing strategy? You’re not alone. Here’s some things to think about in 2025 - I think that, like all struggling corporate functions, the answer is to make sure you’re actually doing the basics. // Also, less planning, more clicking the publish button: quality through quantity. // And, some AI use suggestions.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies - That should get a lot of enterprise CISO’s to move in allowing AI in their orgs. // ”Since the beginning of 2024, OpenAI said that more than 90,000 employees of federal, state and local governments have generated more than 18 million prompts within ChatGPT, using the tech to translate and summarize documents, write and draft policy memos, generate code, and build applications. The user interface for ChatGPT Gov looks like ChatGPT Enterprise. The main difference is that government agencies will use ChatGPT Gov in their own Microsoft Azure commercial cloud, or Azure Government community cloud, so they can “manage their own security, privacy and compliance requirements,” Felipe Millon, who leads federal sales and go-to-market for OpenAI, said on the call with reporters.”

What I’ve learned about writing AI apps so far - Lessons learned.