Recurrent Patterns
Recurrent Patterns is a venture exploring strategies and insights around leading-edge companies, technology and cultural trends. Vaclav engages with leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, authors and others who can share their perspectives in long-form conversations.
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Can you prove that you are from the future?
You travel back to 1995 and tell everyone the Internet will change everything.
They laugh.
That’s the problem every startup founder faces today.
Does AI really create a competitive moat for your company?
Countless founders are launching new companies and using AI to differentiate themselves in the market. Is that the winning strategy?
This time, it’s the French
“Let’s just switch systems.”
Four words that can turn into years of work, millions in costs and a lot of regret.
Munich knows. France is yet to learn
AI grave diggers
The AI giants are using all available means to get every scrap of human-produced data from the digital and paper age. But are they even focused on the right goal?
Anthropic chip. Why?
It seems like almost all of the leading companies in tech are trying to build their own AI chips. But is there really an advantage in doing so? Or are these companies just wasting money?
Microsoft AI for everyone
Mr. Nadella just told Mr. Altman it's not you, it's me. Despite investing in OpenAI, now he wants every company to train their own AI model (on Microsoft infrastructure, of course)
The AI re-alignment is here
OpenAI spent more on marketing last year than McDonald's, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. They still lost $21 billion. Business reality is about to set in.
The final word about search
The original deal was simple: you create the content, Google delivers the traffic. What will you do when Google alters the deal?
The AI reality check
OpenAI built the hype. Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet are collecting the money.
The End of the Metaverse
From the Metaverse to AI, nothing changed. Money is still chasing ideas it doesn’t understand.