Vote is 5-0 to approve first phase of the Downtown Core Project. Incredibly impressed by the thoughtful responses/comments from every single member before final vote. Mayor Taylor led tough meeting incredibly well and with his unique personal style.
Would encourage everyone who left early/went to bed/missed it to watch last 30 minutes: https://t.co/EPOlj2pLi3
Meeting about to cross 5 1/2-hour mark as the final public speakers wrap up. Over 120 residents came out to have their say on this historic vote. Proof Thousand Oaks can still show up big for a big issue. Props especially to those who stayed late. Fmr Mayor Chuck
Cohen (in his late 80s) sticking it out to 11:15pm to give comment… amazing.
Now we wait for vote…
Tonight's the night the Thousand Oaks City Council will vote on whether to allow zoning changes so the Downtown Plans can move forward. Have an opinion one way or another? Share them at the meeting, which begins at 6 p.m. at City Hall.
The AI Business model trap: LLMs want cash flow to fund the race to AGI or the next model. Enter free consumer AI - they are losing a lot of money on the breadth of models to serve consumers for free! They are caught in the post training data trap, free consumer usage feeds post training needs, it can't be right to stop serving customers for free?
But they need money for the compute:
The monetization challenge is being pointed to Enterprises.
Phase 1 - seemed easy, value capture in coding, the most bottom up motion in enterprise - with low customization per customer. Developers continue to train coding, tasks and eventually will train flawless skills.
Phase 2 is where the challenge lies, showing true enterprise value. The promise of efficiency, accuracy, elimination of resources - that requires a different approach, build depth with harnesses, context, memory, solving for edge cases with deterministic guardrails! Build skill libraries - enter FDEs. Yes,FDEs will train the enterprise Waymos of the world.
The risk - high token pricing for enterprises while consumers for free! Yes for consumer distribution businesses (aka Google, Meta, Apple, etc) it makes sense to hold on the distribution with free AI.
If you want to win enterprise, you should be forward pricing tokens. The cheaper the tokens for enterprises it will allow for experimentation, workflow reimagination - instead CIOs are busy restricting AI use and working on making the use more efficient!
Paradox: They still haven't fully understood and embraced the value of AI in the enterprise.
If I were them:
1. Cut token pricing now, else send enterprises to secure opensource and end up with friction filled routing layers.
2. Show me how enterprises can use their context, training and data as their competitive advantage.
3. Build tools for rapid edge case learning and reducing false positives.
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Pretty unreal to see the fever pitch of soccer in America right now. For the last eight months, it has been nothing but negativity. The games started, USA is humming and the script has flipped.
USA have qualified for the Round of 32 after defeating Australia 2-0 in their second group game of the World Cup
It’s the first time the US have won back-to-back World Cup games since the 1930s