Category AI

2026 AI Predictions: The Year of the “Agent Employee”

2026 AI Predictions: The Year of the "Agent Employee" - VC cafe

I read a bunch of VC AI predictions for 2026 so you don’t have to. This includes predictions by Sequoia, Insight, Bessemer, Greylock, A16Z, Radical Ventures, Theory Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and many others. It’s been 3 years (in November) since…

The AI Bubble is Real (And So is the Opportunity)

"The AI Bubble is Real (And So is the Opportunity)"

“When people get very excited, as they are today about AI for example, **every experiment gets funded, every company gets funded — the good ideas and the bad ideas — and investors have a hard time, in the middle of…

Building a Startup in the Age of AI: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t

Building a startup in the Age of AI

There are companies we don’t even know, haven’t been started yet, their names aren’t known, might be extraordinarily big winners in the AI thing. AI is a much bigger landscape, opportunity landscape, than all the previous technologies we have known…

The AI Jobs Report: What’s at Risk and Where the Opportunity Lies

"The impact of AI on jobs" showing humans working with AI across roles

You’ve probably heard CEOs talking about how AI is reshaping the workforce—sometimes in ways that sound straight out of a sci-fi script. Goldman Sachs’ CEO recently suggested that AI could take over writing IPO prospectuses. At Meta, executives have hinted…

The Rising AI Stars from China

China

Until recently, the major advancements in AI were almost exclusively in the US. Every major LLM (think OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, LLaMa) was based there, most access to capital for AI is in the West Coast of the US. It was…

On SuperAgency and AI Adoption Going Forward

Reid Hoffman AI Superagency

Last night, I had the privilege of listening to Reid Hoffman, one of the most influential figures in technology and entrepreneurship, deliver a fascinating lecture about his upcoming book, SuperAgency (due to launch in January 2025). Held in a beautiful…

The Emerging Israeli AI Landscape in 2024

Future Forward Israel's AI Expansion Blueprint

Readers of VC Cafe will know that I’m a big fan of startup landscapes. A new report by F2 Venture Capital, Google Cloud and Deloitte Israel shines a spotlight onto the buzzing emerging AI landscape in Israel so I couldn’t…