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NEA's Tiffany Luck on AI IPOs, personal agents, and the ROI reckoning
NEA partner Tiffany Luck joins Equity to talk about the future of personal agents, her thoughts on this year's AI IPOs, and how startups are stepping in to help enterprises track return on AI spend.
TL;DR
- The intense AI usage trend, known as 'tokenmaxxing,' has resulted in significant costs, prompting a focus on ROI.
- Companies are reassessing their AI spending, with some cutting back licenses or discontinuing internal leaderboards.
- Startups are emerging to help enterprises track and manage their return on AI investment.
- Forward-deployed engineers are playing a crucial role in driving AI adoption within enterprises.
- Enterprises are adopting a strategy of mixing and matching AI models rather than committing to a single provider.
- Value is being created across all layers of the AI stack, not just at the model level.