Heartcore Capital - AI & Productivity Report 2023

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AI & Productivity

Deep-Dive

Why AI-enabled software is a catalyst for a new age of human productivity

May 2023

About this report

AI will reshape every software category and accelerate human productivity. The advancements in machine learning provide unprecedented ways to augment humans across all professions. Reimagining work will be one of the biggest challenges and opportunities in the coming decades.

AI is undeniably one of the most pivotal technology shifts in recent history. The advent of large models has democratized AI capabilities, making them readily accessible for adoption by all technology companies. Unlike the transition from on-prem to cloud, current incumbents aren't disadvantaged to quickly adopt this new tech. In a game that rewards scale, nimble startups might not necessarily have the upper hand. Nonetheless, there are countless exciting opportunities to build application layer productivity solutions and propel humanity forward with AI-powered software.

In many Western and Asian countries, the looming demographic shifts present a tidal wave that's likely to accelerate the adoption of AI. As companies grapple with challenges to grow their workforce, they'll have no choice but to embrace software automation.

When it comes to AI, it feels like a lot has already been said in recent months, but sometimes a fresh perspective uncovers novel ideas. This report is primarily tailored to founders who want to navigate this technology shift, effectively integrate AI into their roadmap, and steer through the emerging competitive realities arising from deep learning and large models.

Productivity Redefined : AI’s Path To Value Creation

Innovation Landscape: Category Winners & Emerging Innovators

Unveiling AI: Why The Hype & Why Now? 1 2 3 4

Shaping the Future: Research Breakthroughs & Expert Contributions

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Unveiling AI: Why The Hype & Why Now?

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The "iPhone moment" for AI: ChatGPT reached 1 million users within 5 days

Time from launch to 1M Users for selected technology applications

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AI is one of the most significant technology shifts we’ve seen in the last century.
Source: CNET, CNBC;
of American Speed 0 200000 400000 600000 800000 1000000 Category 1 Category 2 Category 3 Category 4 74 days 5 days 10 months 2 years 7 years
Museum
5 Heartcore Capital – AI & Productivity Report AI is one of the most significant technology shifts we’ve seen in the last century. heartcore.com The latest breakthroughs in AI build on decades worth of research. 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Darthmouth conference (1956) AI WinterLack of funding AI Winter*Focus on Web3 and Covid Alpha Go (2016) Transformer paper (2017) First Expert System giving rebirth to AI (1975) GPT 3 (2020) ImageNet (2012) ChatGPT (2022) AI Awakening Rule based AI 1 Knowledge-Based Era Learning from data 2 Rise of Big Data & Deep Learning 3 New Paradigm of Large Language Models 4 Source: History of AI - Harvard.edu, Image-Net.org, Wikipedia 1, 2, 3, 4, *no significant drop in funding

UN population development projections for selected countries (age 20 - 60, Indexed)

Maintaining real GDP growth requires productivity gains per citizen in the workforce

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GDP growth will no longer come from an increase in population - AI will have to fill the productivity gap.
Source: United Nations 40 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 310 340 1950 1970 1990 2010 2030 2050 2070 2090 China France Italy Denmark US
Working population, Indexed (1950 = 100)

AI will reshape every software category and accelerate human productivity.

Advancements in hardware are converging with AI architecture innovation. This is applied to lots of data.

Architecture (Parameters)

Compute (FLOPs)

Data (Tokens)

Large Models: achieving good outputs for a wide set of complex tasks, despite training on unlabelled data

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Large AI models are a major breakthrough for software development.
Source: Image Source 1, Image Source 2, Image Source 3

Advancements in AI are made possible by exponential improvements in GPU performance.

Better GPUs paved the way for AI innovation, such as LLMs. Once again, hardware advancements were the enabler of software innovation and value creation. This is not dissimilar to technology shifts of the past like on-prem to cloud, and Web to Mobile.

Single - chip inference performance for NVIDIA GPUs. 1000x in ten years!

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Source: Nvidia
3.94 6.84 21.2 125 261 1248 3958 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 2012 2014 2016 2017 2018 2020 2023 NVIDIA state of the art GPU lines have shown exponential improvements in speed and efficiency with which they can generate output from a trained neural network model. K20X M40 P100 V100 Q8000 A100 H100 Int 8 TOPS (T era Operations per second )

Transformer models are efficient for training on large data sets without human supervision

Transformer models are taking advantage of GPU compute.

Transformer-based models have shown to be very efficient in training on GPUs by parallelizing the ingestion of large amounts of data. Attention mechanisms allow the model to focus on specific parts of the input sequence while processing it, thereby improving its ability to understand and generate complex patterns.

"Looking at previous words only”

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best worst mother

"Looking at all words at once"

Luke, I am your

father

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worst death Self Attention Pretraining

Models like GPT-3 have been trained on terabytes of public text data. These data sets pale in comparison to other text-based content that’s been created by humans. Future SOTA models will be trained on so far untapped non-public and unstructured data.

State of the art LLMs were only trained on a tiny fraction of human created text

Non-public Text data Emails/

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Large models are trained on large data sets. But they’re only scratching the surface.
Source: Report Internet Archive 2021, YT Estimations based on 500hr video content per hour, 288,600 characters/ hour, 1byte/character, total Youtube data amount: 10yrs as proxy for all content uploaded, assuming linear growth GPT3: 45tB unfiltered; 570GB filtered – Source Stefan Langer LMU
45TB 730TB 1 Exabyte 0 1000000 2000000 3000000 4000000 5000000 6000000 7000000 8000000 9000000 10000000 GPT3 training data Youtube text data in videos total text data on the Web (estimate) In terabyte (TB)
Chats, PDFs, ERP GPT-3

Larger is better?

We've seen an arms race to train larger and larger models with more parameters (neurons). Output quality and parameter amount seemed to scale in tandem until 2021. Nowadays, data architecture and training sequences are back in focus in an effort to address surging training costs.

Source: Adapted from StateofAI Report 2022, Nathan Benaiche

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Model size is not all that matters.
Companies raced to train their models with more parameters.
ELMo (94m) GPT (110m) BERT-Large (340m) Transformer ELMo (465m) GPT2 (1.5b) XLM (665m) RoBERTa (335m) MegatronLM (8.3b) T-NLG (17b) 2018 2019 2021 2020 2022 2023 GPT-4 (NA) Bard (137B) LLaMa (65B)* Pan-Gu (200B) GPT-j (6B) Megatron Turing NLG (530B) PaLM (540B) OPT (175B) GPT-Neo X (20B) Gopher (280B) Chinchilla (70B) Jurassic 1 Jumbo (204B) Yuan 1.0 (246B) GPT-3 (175B) 0.1b 1b 10b 100b 1t BaGuaLu (174t) Pangu-Σ (200B) Switch-C (1.6t) Gshard (600b) MT-DNN (330m) LaMDA (137B) Number of Parameters

The next step for LLMs is operating outside of their training boundaries.

We expect impactful LLM innovation to centre around autonomous agents. This will likely allow for another big step in productivity gains.

“Embedding a lot of text”

“Teaching LLMs to perform more than auto-complete”

“Guiding LLMs to give better answers”

“Helping LLMs to operate beyond their training set”

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RNNs AI productivity impact -2017 2022 2023-
2020 GPT3.5/4 TBD Architectual Innovation (Transformers) 1 Computational Innovation (larger models & few shot learners) 2 Interface Innovation (Reinforcement learning with human Feedback / ChatGPT) 3 Tool Innovation (retrival models/ agents/ multimodality) 4

In the Generative Web, everything will be programmatic.

Generative AI is leading towards hyper-personalization, allowing for new business models and value creation, but at the expense of traceability and governance. Increasingly content (from image, audio, and text to graphical interfaces) will only exist for a single human and a single moment.

Read-only Web

1 website for millions of visitors

Web 2.0

Curated content for one user or demographic

Generative Web Ephemeral content for one user

News sites

Corporate websites

eCommerce

Recommendation engines

Social-media feeds

Programmatic ads

Momentary media

Generative UI

Personal Chatbots

Open-ended video games

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Large models and finetuned derivative models will power the application layer

Large models are commoditizing AI capabilities. Companies providing productivity solutions are now able to adopt a combination of proprietary and thirdparty AI solutions. To achieve industry specific value creation a proprietary approach to finetuning derivative models (L2) and orchestrating tooling is required.

Application layer

Orchestration

L2 – Finetuned models

Operating System

Software

L1 – Large models

Hardware layer

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The industrialization of AI-capabilities is an exciting opportunity to create value at the application layer. Despite the justified hype around AI, entrepreneurs will have to be mindful that LLMs are redefining the nature of competitive moats.

Productivity Redefined: AI’s path to value creation

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Ø User interface

The race to become a platform has begun.

Many successful AI companies follow the same strategy - just from different ends of the stack. LLM providers are building vertical and horizontal application layer solutions. Application layer companies seek to establish their own finetuned and even foundational models, all in an attempt to build up platform moats and capture value.

Ø Use case specific models

Ø Integrations

Application layer

Orchestration

L2 – Finetuned models

L1 – Large models

Ø Proprietary finetuned models &

Hardware layer

Ø Foundational models

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Training State of the Art (SOTA) large language models is expensive…

….and thus we are left with a game of the few: companies with access to Talent and Capital (Compute).

The structural and sustaining scarcity of compute and talent will peg costs of scaling AI

Compute

There is a limited supply of enterprise GPUs: highly concentrated production (60% TSMC market share) & fabs require investments of +$10Bn

Talent

There are only around 10k AI researchers in the field

A100 GPU costs up to $15k >20k GPUs needed to train GPT3

OpenAI: $550M OPEX (2022) with ~500 employees

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Source: Box1: Statista: Leading semiconductor foundries revenue share ww; Asionometry.com: Economics of TSMCs Giga Fabs // Box 2: Stanford University AI Index // Box 3: mybroadband.co.za // Box 4: Fortune.com , Linkedin

As AI adds another COGS layer…it’s bye, bye SaaS margins.

Without increasing value and ACVs, AI-enabled companies will likely see lower margins vs "pure play" SaaS. Access to capital becomes a competitive moat, as well as actually solving hard problem sets where software solutions can be monetized.

COGS Compute, Storage, Payment Gross Margin

COGS Compute, Storage, Payment

COGS (ML) Training, Inferencing

Gross Margin

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SaaS C ompany AI - E nabled SaaS C ompany

Running AI on the edge could push inferencing (and training) costs to the user.

With the release of Web GPU for major browsers, even some large models can be run "on the edge" (e.g. Stable Diffusion and Meta's LlaMA). As hardware improves and models become more efficient, some of the inferencing and finetuning will be done on device and thus reducing cloud costs.

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Hosted AI Model
Cost
Local AI Model Inferencing

Producing state-of-the-art AI innovation is a costly endeavour and could lead to a small amount of dominant players. However, open source models have historically commoditized new AI capabilities in surprisingly short periods of time.

Source: Adapted from StateofAI Report 2022; *Llama model was not intentionally made open-source (leak)

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The growing landscape of large language models (LLMs) includes multiple open source models
Large models will likely not monopolize, despite the barriers to scale.
GPT-4 (NA) Bard (137B) GPT-3 (175B) June 2020 Pan-Gu (200B) HyperCLOVA May 2021 Aug 2021 FLAN (137B) Megatron Turing NLG (530B) Jurassic-1 Jumbo (204B) Yuan 1.0 (246B) LaMDA (280B) Ernie 3.0 Titan (260B) PaLM (540B) Chinchilla (70B) GPT Neo X (20B) Gopher (280B) Jan 2022 Feb 2023 Nov 2022 May 2022 Jul 2022 Mar 2022
Galactica (120B) LLaMa (65B)* GPT-j (6B) OPT (175B) Bloom (176B) GLM (130B)
Open Source models in green

Microsoft Teams vs. Slack

The distribution game does not favour new entrants to win.

Competitive moats in AI-enabled software companies often stem from capital (team & compute), as well as from data. Both leverage better with a large and existing customer base.

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Source: Business of Apps / Company Data
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Daily Active Users (m) Daily Active Users (m)

Is AI a disruptive or strengthening innovation? Probably both.

Incumbents can now relatively easily retrofit their applications with L1 and L2 models into their backends. Especially where a UI/frontend does not require radical changes, an incumbent player will be capable of capturing value through AI.

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LLMs … Powering Incumbent Software
Backed
by Google

Startups want to focus on AI applications where UI has to be different.

If an incumbent will not have to meaningfully change their user interfaces to capture or create value through AI, their competitive advantage will be strengthened. New entrants should focus on radical UI shifts, as well as addressing new user groups.

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Existing UI New UI Existing User Group New User Group AI Startup Opportunity Quadrant Strong Incumbent Advantage Incumbent Distribution Advantage New Entrant Innovation Advantage Blue Ocean For New Entrant

Competition all around: barriers to entry are already low while the LLM & MLops stack is still maturing.

We can expect a tidal wave of new (and often incremental) software innovation on top of large models. Obvious problems and "easy to build" solutions will create red ocean markets.

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New open-source repositories on � Hugging Face per month AI-enabled Customer Support Startups (some of them) 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 12-19 02-20 04-20 06-20 08-20 10-20 12-20 02-21 04-21 06-21 08-21 10-21 12-21 02-22 04-22 06-22 08-22 10-22 12-22 02-23 #New Repositories*

A guide to identifying the best AI opportunities in times of hype

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Early mover advantage
Competitive advantage
capable incumbent owning UI
Distribution advantage
to proprietary data
Model advantage
expensive problems that allow for early monetization
Funding advantage
is vital to improve/create value proposition
Technology advantage
Model improves continuously through data loops à
Model is hard to train and/or implement à
No
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Access
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Solving
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AI
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Shaping The Future: Research Breakthroughs & Expert Contributions

We consulted the Heartcore team and eight external contributors (who are distinguished experts in the AI field) to select a groundbreaking research paper published in the last year and provide insight into why they chose it.

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Konstantine Buhler

Partner at

Chosen research paper:

Released in Apr 2021

Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior

Stanford University - Joon Sung Park, Joseph C. O'Brien, Carrie J. Cai, Meredith Ringel Morris, Percy Liang, Michael S. Bernstein

Why it’s important:

"In this paper, the team out of Stanford places several generative agents in a shared digital world somewhat similar to the game Sims. These agents, built on LLMs, interact with each other. The interactions are surprisingly realistic, including a coordinated Valentine's day party. If the AI revolution is a continuation of the personal computer revolution, as in a revolution of computation, prediction, and work, then this type of multi-agent interaction is reminiscent of the early days of PC-networking, which eventually led to the Internet."

Chosen research paper:

Released in January 2023

Large Language Models Generate Functional Protein Sequences Across Diverse Families

Profluent, Salesforce - Ali Madani, Ben Krause, Eric Greene, Subu Subramanian, Benjamin Mohr, James Holton, Jose Luis Olmos Jr, Caiming Xiong, et al.

Why it’s important:

"Madani et al. demonstrate how a language model architecture originally designed for code can be adapted to learn the language of proteins. Through large-scale training, they use a protein language model (ProGen) to create artificial protein sequences that encode functionality that is equivalent to or better to naturally occurring proteins. This means we can generate proteins (drugs or otherwise) with desired functions in a far more systematic way than ever before."

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Levin Bunz Partner at

Christian Jepsen

Partner at

Chosen research paper:

Released in October 2022

Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching

Unlabeled Online Videos

OpenAI : Bowen Baker, Ilge Akkaya, Peter Zhokhov, Joost Huizinga, Jie Tang, Adrien Ecoffet, Brandon Houghton, Raul Sampedro, Jeff Clune

Why it’s important:

"The research from OpenAI applies semi-supervised imitation learning for computer agents to learn to act by "watching" unlabeled video data. The model was pre-trained with 70k hours of online videos of people playing Minecraft, finetuned with a small amount of labeled data (video labeled with keypresses and mouse movements). The trained model was able to craft diamond tools with human-level performance. Taking this further, complex and sequential tasks could be automated by simply "observing" humans doing the work, e.g., for data entry tasks within or across applications.”

Chosen research paper:

Released in Jan 2023

Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models

Why it’s important:

"A research team from Deepmind show that a Reinforcementlearning-based general and scalable algorithm can master a wide range of domains with fixed hyperparameters. By interacting with the game, the model learned to obtain diamonds in the popular video game Minecraft despite sparse rewards, and without human data or domain-specific heuristics. "Learning by doing" across different domains and sparce/delayed rewards is a trait of human intelligence and hence this research presents a potential path towards a "general" AI."

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Deepmind - Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis, Jimmy Ba, Timothy Lillicrap

Chosen research paper:

Released in Mar 2023

Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model

Stanford University, Meta- Rohan Taori, Ishaan Gulrajani, Tianyi Zhang, Yann Dubois, Xuechen Li, Carlos Guestrin, Percy Liang, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

Why it’s important:

"Generative AI models are pivotal for productivity, especially when users can run them on their own hardware. Alpaca showed that a combination of an open-source foundational model and extracted instruction-output pairs can achieve similar performance to text-davinci-003. More importantly, this leap to democratization happened very cost-efficiently (<600 USD). The paper initiated a discussion on how defensible even humanlabeled training data is. It foreshadowed a missing moat of big tech and hints at forthcoming possibilities of AI models stealing from each other."

Chosen research paper:

Released in Feb 2023

LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

Meta- Hugo Touvron, Thibaut Lavril, Gautier Izacard, Xavier Martinet, Marie-Anne Lachaux, Timothée Lacroix, Baptiste Rozière, Naman Goyal, et al.

Why it’s important:

"Meta's release of LLaMA was important for two reasons. First, it showed that training a smaller model for longer could yield really impressive results - the 13B model outperformed GPT-3, which has 175B parameters. Second, an entire ecosystem has bloomed around LLaMA. Alpaca and Vicuna for starters, but also the efforts to open source a LLaMA-equivalent with commercial licenses, running these models on your laptop and your phone, etc. A lot of progress in the large language model space from 2023 is thanks to Meta and its work with LLaMA."

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Sahar Mor

AI Product Lead at & Editor of AI Tidbits

Chosen research paper:

Released in Mar 2023

Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models (Med-PaLM 2)

Deepmind - Karan Singhal, Tao Tu, Juraj Gottweis, Rory Sayres , Ellery Wulczyn, Le Hou, Kevin Clark, Stephen Pfohl, Heather Cole-Lewis, et al.

Why it’s important:

"Singhal et al present a model designed to tackle the grand challenge of medical question answering with performance exceeding SOTA across multiple datasets. Med-PaLM 2 combines improvements in LLMs with medical domain fine-tuning and novel prompting strategies. The model scored up to 86.5% on the MedQA dataset, surpassing the previous SOTA by over 19%. Combined with the recent progress in multimodal AI, which would allow AI models also to see and hear - we can imagine a world where individuals can access personalized, timely, and accurate medical advice conveniently, empowering them to make informed decisions about their health, improving healthcare access and outcomes for humans across the globe.”

Chosen research paper:

Released in Apr 2023

Segment Anything

Meta - Alexander Kirillov, Eric Mintun, Nikhila Ravi, Hanzi Mao, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Tete Xiao, Spencer Whitehead, et al.

Why it’s important:

"This paper is something like the GPT Moment for Computer Vision. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) trains on more than 1b segmentation masks on 11M images. The model's zero shot capabilities solve many of the computer vision tasks without training data through a prompt, which revolutionizes the field."

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Chosen research paper:

Released in April 2023

Efficient Evolution of Human Antibodies from General Protein Language Models

Stanford University - Brian L. Hie, Varun R. Shanker, Duo Xu, Theodora U. J. Bruun, Payton A. Weidenbacher, Shaogeng Tang, Wesley Wu, John E. Pak

Why it’s important:

"Large language models can massively accelerate evolution experiments in the lab, including for clinically-relevant applications. This study used six language models, altogether, that were trained on protein sequences in the UniRef database. The model would suggest mutations - without knowing the target antigen - based on which substitutions have a higher evolutionary likelihood across the six models. The evolved antibodies had improved affinities comparable to those achieved by a state-of-the-art lab evolutionary system (which takes weeks to perform) suggesting that LLMs can massively accelerate clinical development times in some scenarios.”

Chosen research paper:

Released in June 2022

ZeroQuant: Efficient and Affordable Post-Training

Quantization for Large-Scale Transformers

Why it’s important:

"As large language models become even larger, there are significant memory and processing power limitations which increases latency and cost for many applications. This paper introduced a novel technique for post-training Quantization of LLMs by representing parameters in 8 bits rather than 32 bits with minimal accuracy loss and a >5x response time. In time, many products will leverage different optimized models for different use cases and Quantization is one of the major steps towards this reality. While a simple and elegant solution, ZeroQuant has led to a number of other optimization methods such as SmoothQuant and other methods."

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Microsoft - Zhewei Yao , Reza Yazdani Aminabadi, Minjia Zhang Xiaoxia Wu, Conglong Li, Yuxiong He

Co-founder & CTO at Corti.ai Adj. Professor at DTU

Chosen research paper:

Released in Mar 2023

Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?

Ryan Schaeffer, Brando Miranda, Sanmi Koyejo

Why it’s important:

”With the impressive progress and the many use-cases of Large Language Models, it is important to learn what we can expect. As Yann LeCun stated: Auto-Regressive Large Language Models will always hallucinate and it is not fixable. Do they, however, have ‘emergent abilities’: “abilities that are not present in smaller-scale models but are present in large-scale models …”. The authors of this paper presents an intelligent study showing that previous belief that these models possess emergent abilities are wrong, and that it simply has to do with the evaluation metrics. Hence, completing a multiple-choice medical exam is not evidence that a model has emergent abilities.”

Chosen research paper:

Released in June 2022

Semantic Reconstruction of Continuous Language from Non-invasive Brain Recordings

Jerry Tang, Amanda LeBel, Shailee Jain, Alexander G. Huth et al.

Why it’s important:

“In this paper, researchers developed a non-invasive decoder that can reconstruct continuous natural language from brain recordings. This allows for the interpretation of perceived speech, imagined speech, and even silent videos. Although cooperation from subjects is still needed, the paper makes us wonder how long this will prevail. Advanced techniques could have the potential to infringe on mental privacy. While fMRI is currently a key tool in this research, the rapid pace of technological advancement means that other methods may eventually supplant it.”

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Innovation Landscape: Category Winners & Emerging Innovators

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AI-Enabled Productivity for Creative Work

Category Winners

Soonicorns & Challengers

Midjourney

Image Generation US Image Generation UK $89M funding

Game asset generation US $6M funding

Ai powered Design tool DK $19M funding

Product image photo studio tool FR $19M funding

2D to 3D recorder US $28M funding

Audio/ Video editor US $100M funding

Content creation US $131M funding

Synthetic voice API UK >$15M funding

Mobile first retouching tool IL $335M funding

AI first Video editor/ effects suite US $196M funding

Synthetic video avatars UK $67M funding

VFX software for studios US $17M funding

Interactive avatars IL $48M funding

Audio/ Video recording suite IL $47M funding

Generative Music platform US $20M funding

Physics-based animations for games UK >$2M funding $33M funding

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AI-Enabled Productivity for Healthcare

Category Winners

Soonicorns & Challengers

Revenue cycle automation platform $857M funding Precision medicine/ personalized treatments $304M funding Integrated workflow platform $105M funding Alerting and Care coordination platform $292M funding Remote monitoring platform $233M funding Data driven primary care provider $271M funding Radiology workflow platform US $63M funding Medical coding US $61M funding Intervention guidance for cardiologists FR $69M funding Clinical notes and care management platform FR $21M funding Patient documentation US $72M funding Medical Contact Center Support US $82M funding Synthetic healthcare data US $104M funding AI workflow automation US $85M funding Patient documentation US *$72M funding 37 Heartcore Capital – AI & Productivity Report – *Heartcore portfolio company heartcore.com Breast cancer screening DE $14M funding Simulated low scale clinical trials US $85M funding Personalized cancer therapy US $90M funding

AI-Enabled Productivity for Science

Category Winners

Soonicorns & Challengers

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drug discovery UK $292M funding/ public
cancer treatment solutions US $1.3B funding
development platform (cancer) HK $402M funding
research tool US $300M funding
pharmaceutical company US $420M funding
diagnostics tool (cancer) US $220M funding
data platform UK $71M funding
and testing platform CA $95M funding AI-first protein design US $9M funding Pathological assistance tool DE $20M funding RNA drug discovery US $42M funding AI-enabled drug discovery pipeline FR $32M funding Antibody design platform US $99M funding Protein design software CH $6M funding
pharmaceutical company UK $375M funding/ public
AI-enabled
Data-driven
Drug
Oncological
Next-gen
Pathological
Genomics
Experiments
Next-gen

AI-Enabled Productivity for Deskwork

Soonicorns & Challengers

Contact center automation US $158M funding Robotic process automation RO $2B+ funding/ public Knowledge search software US $155M funding Translation tool DE $100M funding Programmatic content generator US $6M funding Calendar and scheduling tool US $77M funding Knowledge search software US $71M funding Customer contact automation/ real estate US $32M funding Time management software US $13M funding Presentation design tool US $75M funding Customer service tool CA $191M funding Browser/ App automation US $415M funding Customer contact automation UK $66M funding 39 Heartcore Capital – AI & Productivity Report heartcore.com Enterprise content generation US $65M funding Customer service tool US $92M funding API-first content generator US $26M funding Universal text/ image engine US $11.3B funding
Category Winners

AI-Enabled Productivity for Finance & Legal

Category Winners

Soonicorns & Challengers

AI-powered accounting software US $115M funding

AI-powered contract intelligence US $156M funding

Legal research tool US $65M funding US $26M funding

AI-powered accounting software FR $61M funding

Contract drafting tool BE $11M funding

AI-powered accounting automation US $33M funding

Billing for enterprise law firms US $56M funding

Loan portfolio optimization US $41M funding

ESG insights for investors US $80M funding

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AI-Enabled Productivity for Software Development

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IN $0.5M
NA
$29M
$202M
$102M
$132M
Enterprise
$135M
$200M
$23M
$32M
$81M
Self-programming scripts
Code Debugging US
Code Review PT
funding Browser IDE US
funding AI data science platform US
funding ML deployment platform US
funding
AI platform US
funding ML Ops platform US
funding AI first terminal US
funding Code Copilot IL
funding ML Ops platform US
funding
$90M
AI
UK 195M
$63M
$68M
Data science platform US
funding
App builder
funding Transcription APIs US
funding Synthetic data for developers US
funding
$28M
$10
Coding copilot US/ EU
funding Coding Copilot US Automated React/ Flutter programming IN
M Soonicorns & Challengers
Category Winners

AI-Enabled Productivity for Industrial Automation & Workflows

Category Winners

Robotics platform US

$222M funding

Robotic logistic automation US $196M funding

Soonicorns & Challengers

Frontline worker protection US $30M funding

Humanoid robots NO $37M funding

Autonomous yard truck management US $58M funding

3PL autonomous fulfilment US $115M funding

Fleet inspection US $196M funding

Autonomous excavators US $112M funding

General purpose robots DE $270M funding

General purpose low code robot arms DE $18M funding

Automated textile inspection PT $27M funding

Frontline worker protection US $22M funding

3PL autonomous fulfilment US $102M funding

Autonomous agriculture vehicles US $58M funding

Robot software DE $123M funding

Robot assistants DE $86M funding

Robot software PL $31M funding

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AI-Tooling and Infrastructure

Category Winners

Soonicorns & Challengers

43 Heartcore Capital – AI & Productivity Report heartcore.com Model orchestration platform US $160M funding Semantic Search tool DE $16M funding Foundational model IL $119M funding Foundational model US $415M funding Foundational model DE $29M funding Foundational model US $11.3B funding AI first chip company UK $682M funding Foundational model FR NA AI Orchestration and workflow builder FR NA Open Source LLM Orchestration US $10M+ funding Annotation & Orchestration platform UK $43M funding Hugging Face Vector database US $138M funding Vector database DE $10M funding Vector database NL $68M funding Foundational model US $1.8B funding
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