It seems that 200 percent of the conversations that I’m having with the teams running our portfolio companies, as well as those with other entrepreneurs across a dozen different industries, are about chatbots, the dominance of the primary large language models, and the unlikely prospects of the other emerging AI tools and models. Very few of these discussions are focused on the much more pressing and immediate concern: Who’s creating, who’s aggregating, who’s vetting, and who owns the masses of underlying data that every business is now generating daily? Also, how is all of this material going to be used to move those businesses forward, and by whom?
