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COVID-19, Intelligent Software, and The Future of Work (Part I)

COVID-19, Intelligent Software, and The Future of Work (Part I)

The pandemic has served to catalyze and accelerate seminal changes.  In this three-part article series, we will highlight some of the important themes and concepts that we believe will shape, and are shaping, the Future of Work in the ...
Intelligent Software is Accelerating the Recovery from COVID

Intelligent Software is Accelerating the Recovery from COVID

Omega’s observations these past months from the front lines of the promise and potential of AI-and-ML-enabled Intelligent Software have been reinforced further during the COVID crisis, as to the vital role AI is playing in addressing ...
Intelligent Software in the Era of Product-Led Growth

Intelligent Software in the Era of Product-Led Growth

One of the most talked about trends in the enterprise software space recently is the notion of product-led growth. Numerous founders, investors, and F500 executives have appropriately claimed that the modern business user has ...
Tackling COVID with AI & Machine Learning

Tackling COVID with AI & Machine Learning

Three billion people, over a third of the world’s population, are currently in lockdown because of the coronavirus.  This is the gravest public health danger since the Spanish flu virus in 1918, which killed 50 million people. ...
Three Trends Driving the Future of Artificial Intelligence Voice Assistants

Three Trends Driving the Future of Artificial Intelligence Voice Assistants

Voice assistants are becoming a central platform for gathering data and streamlining everyday life for consumers. For example, Amazon’s Alexa, which can now control more than 85,000 smart home products from TVs to doorbells to ...
HOW COMPUTERS LEARN

HOW COMPUTERS LEARN

At Omega, we know that when investing in Intelligent Software that leverages AI and ML, understanding the limitations of AI and Machine Intelligence is just as important as appreciating its capabilities. A decade ago, the state of ...
AI Regulation is Coming to a Town Near You

AI Regulation is Coming to a Town Near You

From our participation at the World Economic Forum earlier in the year, Omega Venture Partners has maintained an ongoing dialogue with high-level policy makers across the European Union.  The hottest topic on our EU friends’ agenda ...
China’s AI Talent Retention Problem

China’s AI Talent Retention Problem

A series of recent reports show that the number of Chinese AI researchers has increased 10X over the last decade.  What these reports don’t always note is that the majority of them live outside China, mostly in the United ...
Omega’s John Seely Brown Delivers Keynote at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Omega’s John Seely Brown Delivers Keynote at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Omega’s John Seely Brown addressed graduating seniors during the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) 134th annual commencement ceremony. Dr. Brown has been a Board Member of some of the world's largest corporations -- Amazon, ...