AI adoption at work is skyrocketing (it doubled in 6 months with 75% using it at work), and power users are seeing significant benefits: they manage workloads better, increase creativity, and better optimize their workday. However, there's a small caveat to those stats. This visual (from Microsoft's & LinkedIn's 2024 work trend index report) shows that workers are using AI tools not provided by their organization This is a huge miss by organizations that are still taking their ... Read More

Anthropic (one of OpenAI’s competitors) just released a new plan for Claude that can be used by business teams Everyone is already asking if this is better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT Team plan. Here’s Allie Miller’s take: From my perspective, ChatGPT Team wins hands-down because of the custom GPTs feature (where business teams can create their own GPTs to help with repetitive tasks, just like Moderna did recently) I’m not sure how other Gen AI companies can compete if they don't offer ... Read More

Moderna is leveraging Gen AI the right way according to a new article by OpenAI. Old way: Hire 100,000 people New way: Give a few thousand people Gen AI tools and make them perform like 100,000 people Their strategic move? Giving every function (including legal) AI tools and allowing employees to create their own GPTs (they've created 750 GPTs across the company so far; this is huge if you know how powerful it could be) Here’s a short video showcasing their incredible ... Read More

I write books for busy managers as a side hobby. I wasn’t planning on writing my next book anytime soon, but during one weekend a few months ago, I published a new one. The idea started out as a joke. Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI (the organization behind ChatGPT) suggested that someone should write a book about doing the opposite of conventional management wisdom. I joked that I was "On it!" and attached a couple of screenshots from ChatGPT. I then decided to take it ... Read More

Jamie Dimon, Chairman & CEO of JPMorgan Chase just published the annual letter to shareholders and highlighted how AI will affect businesses going forward. Three highlights: A Resource with 100+ AI Business Tools (Bookmark This) One thing that’s been super hard (and frustrating) for me to do is keep track of all the AI tools that keep popping up. So, I started putting together a list of those tools to help you manage your business and increase productivity. I’ve recently ... Read More

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal talks about how business schools are rethinking the subjects they teach as part of their curriculum to adapt to AI.  For leaders, this means that we'll soon start to see AI requirements and prerequisites in many job descriptions going forward.  ChatGPT for Faster (& Better) Business Presentations I just released a new course on Udemy about using ChatGPT to create high-impact presentations (quickly). It's a short course (~80 ... Read More

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) published a great summary of the 16 changes to how enterprises build and buy generative AI in 2024. The two main takeaways for me: 1) Average enterprise spend on LLMs will go from $7M in 2023 to $18M in 2024, a 2.5x increase  2) Only 40% of enterprises are focused on measuring ROI on LLM spend, and 60% are not measuring or considering ROI at all. Here’s a summary of all the 16 ... Read More

The latest "Top 50 Gen AI Web Products" list by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) was just published. This is a more recent version of the list they published six months ago. Here’s the list of the top 50 by unique monthly visits. Click here to check out their full article about the list. What does this mean for leaders? There are a couple of interesting takeaways from this list: 1) First, over 40 percent of the companies that made this list are brand new (when ... Read More

Cognition Labs just announced the world’s first AI Software Engineer called Devin. Here’s a demo of what Devin can do: What does this mean for leaders? AI coding assistants are not new, but Devin is unique because it can develop software just as a software engineer would. It can handle everything from A to Z, including writing code and fixing bugs. Early reviews indicate that it is pretty promising, which potentially puts software engineering jobs at risk. For leaders, this ... Read More