Posts by DrSalonen
Why a consumption-based monetization model could benefit AI SaaS software vendors
Sofware pricing and challenges around it are an ongoing story among software vendors, and that will not go away anytime soon now with the emergence of AI and AI-infused solutions. I have been fortunate enough to witness and lead software pricing/packaging transformation projects for independent software vendors (ISVs) that transformed their software pricing from a…
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The Rise of Domain-Specific Large Language Models and Why it Matters to Organizations
It is clear that not many companies that can afford build their foundation models and large language models (LLMs); it is just too costly, and even large AI platform vendors are unclear when the investments are going to be paid off. If you wonder what the difference is between a foundation model and large language…
Read MoreAre AI Agents taking over our jobs?
I saw an interesting article by Joe McKendrick, a contributing writer for ZDNET. In his article “AI agents are the next frontier and will change our working lives forever,” he refers to a recent McKinsey Quarterly article, “Why agents are the next frontier of generative AI.” We have all been bombarded with news of LLMs, AI,…
Read MoreWill AI break the business model for some channel partners?
Some writings on the web made me “compelled” to think about AI and how it might impact channel partners. To give some context to my thoughts, I should give some background. I have lived and breathed the channel for 30+ years within the software industry. My boutique consulting company, TELLUS International, has been the foundation…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Open-source LLMs and What it Means to Us
According to a recent Verge article, Meta has released the biggest and best open-source AI model yet. Meta claims that the new release of Llama 3.1outperforms GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet on several benchmarks. Furthermore, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, predicts that Meta AI will be the most widely used assistant by the end of…
Read MoreAre GenAI developers running out of data to train LLM models?
I came across the New York Times article “The Data That Powers AI is Disappearing Fast” (sorry, but behind a paywall), and I wanted to share some of the perspectives that I have seen and learned from both the article and my work on AI. According to the Data Providence Initiative, content made available to…
Read MoreTraditional SaaS Software Pricing and Packaging Models will not work with GenAI solutions
Is the EU killing efforts around AI due to different regulations?
According to an Axios article, Meta won’t offer future multimodal AI models in the EU. This is Meta’s response to EU regulators and “highlights “a growing willingness among U.S. tech giants to withhold products from European customers. According to the article, Meta will be releasing a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not…
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