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We created Chat_UP as our bit of the AI conversation. One of the fun jobs is to give the thing a visual identity. Something that will show up across social channels and in to live events. Because Chat_UP is about AI, it felt right that the process start
A story is building that AI is the next era defining sponsorship category. The dream scenario for the sports sector is that this is true. It has the characteristics required. Undifferentiated brands backed by vast sums of OPM. So, forward five years. Two thirds of Premier League shirts carry AI
You'll have seen the Anthropic Super Bowl ad. I did a quick data scrape of this FT article. Main bits: 'I would just disclose, as a personal bias, that I hate ads, they would be like a last resort for us as a business model. Advertising had
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The race to build SportsbizGPT is happening downstream of the bigger fight being waged by the foundational models. There are four problems to be solved, and the company which solves each of them will be ‘generational’. That's how Jonathon Ross, CEO of Groq sees it. @20vc_tok The