Tag: technology
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How real estate marketplaces are using AI
Real estate marketplaces have a clear commercial incentive to use AI well: the better they match buyers, renters and sellers, the more transactions they facilitate. I started by looking at Property Finder — a marketplace for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, broadly comparable to Rightmove in the UK or Zillow in the…
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Sora no more
OpenAI’s decision this week to shut down Sora, its video generation app, says less about video generation and more about where the real AI battle is being fought right now. Launched with great fanfare in 2024, Sora initially shot to the top of the App Store. But downloads fell sharply — dropping nearly 75% from…
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Eventual / Daft (Product Review)
My summary of Eventual before using it – Eventual is a multimodal data processing platform designed to power AI-based products and features. How does Eventual explain itself in the first minute? “Revolutionising the way you work with data” is the main strapline on Eventual’s website, and the short explainer video wastes no time making the case.…
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Learning about automated prompts
Most of the prompts we write are done manually; you type something into ChatGPT or Claude and wait for a response. But there’s a whole other world of prompting happening behind the scenes, where developers write code that assembles and fires off prompts automatically, thus reducing the manual effort in prompt creation and tuning. This…
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“Transformed” (Book Review)
Marty Cagan’s latest book “Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model” is about companies wanting to transform so they can take advantage of new opportunities and respond to serious threats. I’m sure many of you have been part of companies going through an ‘Agile transformation’ or are now witnessing ‘AI transformation’. In Transformed, Cagan and…
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