Weekly DaaS Roundup for June 20

the trusted news feed on Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) companies and products

SUMMER SOLSTICE

Welcome to the longest day of the year! We’ll start with the shortest intro yet to let you enjoy the most of it.

READ OF THE WEEK

Data in the Age of AI by Abraham Thomas

Drops in data store costs spurred the “Data Explosion” of the past two decades which allowed for the creation the internet ecosystem as we know it today. With compute and now productivity costs about to follow the same downward trajectory - what will the world look like?

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NEWS AND READS

Are we running out of data? by Sumeet Wadhwani (Spiceworks)

LLMs require larger amounts of training data - is synthetic data the answer?

Roadmap: AI Infrastructure by Bessemer Partner Ventures

How AI is reshaping the data stack.

Startup Acceleration by Jason Cohen

Survivorship bias aside, some cool data on how long it takes to get going.

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M&A AND FUNDING

A TRIP TO THE DATA MUSEUM

Yesterday was Juneteenth in the US, and in honor wanted to share the incredible work by Data by Design - a team of talented data visualization artists who look at history through the lens of data.

Before there are data, there are people. People who offer up their lives as data — or whose lives become data without consent.

RANDOM ART(TIFICIAL HALLUCINATION) OF THE WEEK

promt: bears celebrating the summer solstice around a modern maypole

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