As a technologist who has worked in both startups and F200 enterprises, I'm firmly convinced that startups are going to be the incubators of innovation in terms of the patterns of how to apply genAI. Far easier to build a new AI-enabled department from the ground up than to retrofit an existing 1000+ person org. Superpowers for individual founders and a short-term disruptor that lets new entrants compete on a lower cost basis with incumbents. This will equalize in a few years, when applying the winning patterns incubated in startups to larger enterprises will become easier and more interesting. Not wholly different from many other technology innovations but with its own fascinating twists: things that are non-deterministic are challenging to scale.
As a technologist who has worked in both startups and F200 enterprises, I'm firmly convinced that startups are going to be the incubators of innovation in terms of the patterns of how to apply genAI. Far easier to build a new AI-enabled department from the ground up than to retrofit an existing 1000+ person org. Superpowers for individual founders and a short-term disruptor that lets new entrants compete on a lower cost basis with incumbents. This will equalize in a few years, when applying the winning patterns incubated in startups to larger enterprises will become easier and more interesting. Not wholly different from many other technology innovations but with its own fascinating twists: things that are non-deterministic are challenging to scale.