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Here’s a look at some choice quotes from the buy side of enterprise technology and how they’re thinking about AI, technology and transformation.
ServiceNow took the plunge as it pivots its business model to a hybrid approach with seats, subscriptions and consumption blended together. The new normal is subscription SaaS pricing with a heavy dose of AI agent consumption.
Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu said he will step down as CEO and become Chief Scientist at the company "responsible for deep R&D initiatives."
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company spend $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures largely focused on artificial intelligence.
Delta Air Lines has migrated most of its technology infrastructure to the cloud and is starting to leverage generative AI (GenAI) for personalized pricing, digital concierge services, and optimizing the customer experience.
While, Trump, China, and the global economy take centerstage at this year’s World Economic Forum, AI will be the main topic du jour. Senior executives and policy wonks seek to understand how AI will transform businesses, societies, and economies. The AI Age truly is the 4th Industrial Revolution, not the other stuff that was peddled as conference fodder over the past five years in Davos.
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Physical AI and the foundational models that go with them will be a recurring theme across enterprises now that Nvidia has laid out its Cosmos world foundation models.
Quantum computing vendors IonQ and D-Wave Quantum touted strong bookings for 2024 and the fourth quarter and said systems are showing near-term usefulness and commercial potential. The disclosures were timed to counter Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's take that useful quantum computing systems were 15- to 30-years away.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said "we may see the first AI agents 'join the workforce' and materially change the output of companies in 2025 and that the company's ChatGPT Pro plan, which runs $200 a month, is unprofitable.
Here's a look at some of the key takeaways in 2024 from the CXOs in the BT150 based on our numerous interviews and monthly calls.
