Are AI Agents taking over our jobs?

Are 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,…

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Will AI break the business model for some channel partners?

AI and Channel Partners-Will AI disrupt the business model for 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…

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The Evolution of Open-source LLMs and What it Means to Us

Are open-source LLMs taking over- The competition is heating up

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…

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Are GenAI developers running out of data to train LLM models?

Are 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…

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AI and your business model – have you reviewed yours? We have.

AI and Your Business Model - have you reviewed yours

A year and a half ago, I realized that I would really have to dig deep into the topic and see how AI would impact my own boutique management consulting and advisory firm, TELLUS International, Inc. I decided to review each one of our workshop offerings to ensure that they were up-to-date with the latest, including the addition…

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The rise of a new title – Chief AI Officer

Chief AI Officer Overlooking the Organization

AI is shaking organizations at their core. Traditional businesses are seeing a threat from new players entering the scene with new business models, and these traditional businesses do not know how to react to it. There is nothing new that businesses are being disrupted, but what is new is that the pace of disruption is…

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