Infrastructure

Thanks to a set of new AI models, we have the tools to reimagine common workflows, processes and user experiences. Here are some ideas for how that might look.

Richard Socher discusses advances in NLP, and how the experience for AI startups has changed since the early days of deep learning.

Fivetran CEO George Fraser discusses the lack of software libraries for SQL, and how enabling them through a platform like dbt could change data analysis.

Effectively building and buying software means understanding that most developers work with legacy code, slow processes, and a mishmash of frameworks.

How startups and smaller entities can take advantage of large foundation models, like GPT-3 and BERT, to kickstart their AI and machine learning efforts.

Taking a page from China's relentless willingness to experiment with core apps.

The passport of the future should be an app based on skills and health rather than nationality. This can boost opportunities for billions of people.

The world watched when a container ship blocked the Suez Canal. Amid a frenzy of global trade demand, the world’s shipping infrastructure is starting to break.

While COVID-19 vaccinations in the U.S. are continuing apace, calls are growing for a more ambitious strategy to rapidly vaccinate the entire world, and especially in developing nations. Legal proceedings around this issue were trigger...

We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed the strength and weakness in current funding models.