Ron Miller, Author at TechCrunch

Cloud infrastructure revenue approached $80 billion this quarter

Ron Miller — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 16:21:49 +0000

The cloud infrastructure market has put the doldrums of 2023 firmly behind it with another big quarter. Revenue continues to grow at a brisk pace, fueled by interest in AI. Synergy Research reports revenue totaled $79 billion for the quarter, up $14.1 billion or 22% from last year. This marked the third consecutive quarter that […]

Tezi is building an AI agent for hiring managers

Ron Miller — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

AI agents are all the rage right now, and Tezi, an early-stage startup, is working on one to help HR teams find the perfect candidates for a job opening. The startup claims this bot will sift through resumes to find the ones that match the hiring criteria, find time on the recruiter’s calendar to set […]

It took some serious nerve for Wiz to walk away from Google’s $23B offer

Ron Miller — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:19:28 +0000

For one thing, Wiz could have seen Google’s offer as validation that it's better off staying independent.

How to prevent your software update from being the next CrowdStrike

Ron Miller — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:59:43 +0000

There is no fool proof way to prevent a buggy update like CrowdStrike's, but there are best practices that could mitigate the fallout.

Noded AI wants to make your notes the center of your work world

Ron Miller — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Let’s start with the premise that many people take notes as they work with customers as part of their jobs. As they take notes, they may need to access a customer record in Salesforce or open a Jira ticket to get IT involved with a customer problem, but to do that, they must undertake the […]

Announcing the agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Frederic Lardinois, Ron Miller, Richard Smith — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the sharpest minds and professionals in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies, leaders from the infrastructure companies that power the industry and the venture capitalists who fund them. Explore and enjoy, and we hope you’ll join us […]

Didero is using AI to solve supply chain management at mid-market companies

Ron Miller — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Supply chain management remains a stubborn problem for many mid-market companies that can’t afford SAP or lack sufficient IT resources to manage a complex program. Didero, an early-stage startup, decided to build an AI-fueled tool to make it easier on them. Today, the company announced a $7 million seed investment. While it was at it, […]

Kandji raises another $100M for Apple device management as valuation rises to $850M

Ron Miller — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000

At a time when many startups have struggled to raise money and keep their heads above water, Kandji, an Apple device management platform, has been an exception. Founded in 2019, it has raced through its funding rounds like a precocious child, raising over $188 million along the way. Today it added to that total with […]

The AI financial results paradox

Ron Miller — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 18:36:23 +0000

There is a general consensus today that generative AI is going to transform business in a profound way, and companies and individuals who don’t get on board will be quickly left in the dustbin of history. At the same time, as companies delve more deeply into this technology, they want proof, actual business metrics, that […]

What exactly is an AI agent?

Ron Miller — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Regardless of how they're defined, the agents are for helping complete tasks in an automated way with as little human interaction as possible.

Boston VCs are pleased that HubSpot will remain an independent company

Ron Miller — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 11:10:14 +0000

For months, rumors persisted that Google, and perhaps others, were interested in buying HubSpot, a Boston-based CRM and marketing software company. HubSpot’s market cap ballooned as the rumors persisted, eventually reaching over $30 billion. But this week, Bloomberg might have finally put an end to the madness when it reported that the parties had parted […]

HerculesAI was working with large language models long before it was cool

Ron Miller — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

HerculesAI (formerly Zero Systems) has been working at automating professional services since 2017, originally concentrating on the legal industry. As part of that, it has actually been building large language models for several years, long before the idea entered the public consciousness. As such, it found itself in the right place at the right time […]

AWS App Studio promises to generate enterprise apps from a written prompt

Ron Miller — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:30:00 +0000

Generative AI is everywhere these days, but Amazon Web Services has been perceived in some circles as being late to the game. In reality it’s still early, and the market is still shaking out. On Wednesday, AWS might have raised its generative AI street cred with a new tool called App Studio. App Studio promises […]

CIOs’ concerns over generative AI echo those of the early days of cloud computing

Ron Miller — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:00:00 +0000

CIOs trying to govern generative AI have the same concerns they had about cloud computing 15 years ago, but they've learned some things along the way.

You could learn a lot from a CIO with a $17B IT budget

Ron Miller — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:00:00 +0000

Lori Beer's work is a case study for every CIO out there, most of whom will never come close to JP Morgan Chase’s scale, but who can still learn from how it goes about its business.

ServiceNow’s generative AI solutions are taking advantage of the data on its own platform

Ron Miller — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0000

One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platform to help build more business-centric models.

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI

Ron Miller — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

He says that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it.

Illumex is using GenAI to ease pain of getting good data into LLMs

Ron Miller — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

By now we know how crucial it is to have quality data for use by large language models (LLMs), but getting data ready for the models has been an early challenge for companies, an opening that represents an opportunity for an enterprising entrepreneur. Enter Illumex, a two-year-old Israeli startup from the former VP of AI […]

Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders

Ron Miller — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000

When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners. The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital context. Fast-forward to today, and there are companies scraping […]

In spite of hype, many companies are moving cautiously when it comes to generative AI

Ron Miller — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Companies are extremely interested in generative AI as vendors push potential benefits, but turning that desire from a proof of concept into a working product is proving much more challenging.