Weekly DaaS Roundup for August 16

DaaS Never Sleeps

TOP NEWS

It’s been revealed that Nvidia’s AI project dubbed “Cosmos” has been silently scraping Youtube’s corpus of work without the consent of parent company Alphabet or the creators themselves. Gotta shoot for the stars!

NEWS, READS AND MORE

With earnings season wrapping up - we took a look at the the Q2 earning calls of the largest publicly traded DaaS companies to identify common threads, threats and opportunities.

Now that Envestnet is in private hands, all sights turn to the fate of financial data aggregator - Yodlee.

Publicly traded healthcare data provider Veradigm is the latest in a long list of DaaS companies rumored to be looking at returning to private ownership. Surprising no one, Thoma Bravo is said to be involved.

We sat down with Amplify Data CEO Karthik Kumar to learn about why data personalization is key, the importance of communities (like this one!) and why focus matters.

🎧THE LATEST WOD PODCAST 🎧

Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University shares his thoughts on the decline of American dynamism, crime trends, and the future of education and work.

World of DaaS is now officially a 30K+ sub channel on YouTube! We started the year 7K strong. Who knew there were so many data nerds enthusiasts out there!

M&A AND FUNDING

UK satellite startup Blue Skies Space wants to sell astronomy data 'as a service'

DaaS takes the skies

Decentralized AI network Sahara raises $43M to tackle copyright and transparency in training data

The Nvidia story above is exactly why this is so timely

Encord lands new cash to grow its data dev tools for AI

Encord, a company developing data annotation and labeling tools to support AI model training, has raised new funds in a Series B

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

prompt: a glorious break dancer at the olympics in the style of Picasso

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