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Global venture funding in 2024 edged above 2023’s totals, with AI showing the biggest leap in amounts year to year. Overall startup funding in 2024 reached close to $314 billion — compared to $304 billion in 2023 — up around 3%, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data.| Crunchbase News
Software and Internet companies are likely to see their revenue from GenAI rise more than 20-fold in the next three years, with the return on their investments turning positive as soon as 2025.| Morgan Stanley
Generative AI has a Sustainability problem – across environment, cost and continuing to meet expectations. Many companies are racing to implement GenAI in their projects, lured by its hyped potential to revolutionise industries. However, in applying GenAI to enterprise implementations, I am seeing first-hand the sustainability challenges threatening to implode the first generation of this technology. This blog talks about what I hope will rise from the ashes of such an implosion.| Scott Logic
In 2024, enterprise leaders are doubling down on their genAI investments. 16 developments for founders to keep in mind to capture this new opportunity.| Andreessen Horowitz
Generative AI’s impact on productivity could add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy—and the era is just beginning.| McKinsey & Company
