🤖 AI's Bright Future: Partnerships, Investments, and Insights
If Your Fridge Starts Negotiating Your Diet, Don’t Panic—It’s Just AI Leveling Up
Welcome to All In With AI, the only newsletter brave enough to call out the hype without unplugging the router. This week we’ve got the inside scoop on where money’s flowing, which gadgets are getting smarter (sorry, iPhone), and why anthropomorphizing your chatbot might land you in therapy.
Main Acts: Investors, Gadgets & Grounded Insights
đź’° Betting Big on AI Rollups & Phone Makeovers
First, our favorite early-stage whisperer, Elad Gil, has shifted from backing chatty bots to AI-powered rollups. Translation: he’s looking for startups that bundle lots of tasks into neat, trainable packages—think multitasking on steroids.
- Gil’s track record: Perplexity, Character.AI & more.
- Rollups promise modular AI tools you’ll actually use.
- Why it matters: spotting these trends now means you might thank your future self (and wallet).
Meanwhile, Samsung is whispering sweet nothings (and big checks) to Perplexity, aiming to bake smarter AI right into your next Galaxy phone. Expect context-aware assistants—finally, a phone that remembers what you Googled two minutes ago.
- Potential perks: sharper recommendations, fewer accidental emojis.
- Significance: AI is sliding from cloud to pocket, fast.
🎤 Grounded AI Talk: TechCrunch Sessions at Berkeley
Hype’s fun—until everyone’s just shouting “synergy!” at each other. Enter TechCrunch Sessions: AI on UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall stage. No fluff, just builders, researchers & funders sharing real-world wins and fails (we love a good fail).
- Who’s there: from lab-coat PhDs to venture capital bigwigs.
- What you’ll hear: honest talks on deployable AI, not just flashy demos.
Why it matters: If you’re tired of AI vaporware, this is your caffeine fix—straight talk, zero buzzwords.
Side Stage: Leadership & Lingering Questions
- Sam Altman Unmasked: Keach Hagey’s new biography dives into how a kid who built a coupon app became OpenAI’s ringmaster. Insight: visionary leaders matter—until your code starts generating snack recipes.
- Stop Calling AI Your Co-worker: Marketing teams love naming bots “Jill” or “Carlos,” but slapping a human mask on code can backfire. This read warns of misplaced trust and HR nightmares when your chatbot demands a corner office.
Sources:
TechCrunch Sessions: AI event details; TechCrunch: Elad Gil’s rollup bets & Samsung-Perplexity talks; Keach Hagey via TechCrunch: Sam Altman bio; TechCrunch opinion: anthropomorphizing AI.
That’s it for today’s AI reality check. Keep your expectations calibrated, your routers secure, and we’ll see you next issue—where we’ll ask if your smart toaster can unionize.
— The All In With AI Crew
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