Being AI chief executive David McDonald explains the aspirations for the newly listed company and why listing on the New Zealand stock exchange was a key step in those plans.
McDonald and his assembled team have a history of AI success, underpinning the promise of future glory. The company's share price rocketed after listing, sparking much attention and some criticism.
Is it tall poppy syndrome or fair scrutiny for a listed company?
We also delve into Ben's experiment playing with a range of free-tier GenAI chatbots, unpacking the pros and cons of the seven he tested.
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Reading list
Featured on the podcast
- Tech Insights #324 – Being AI – Clare Capital
- NZX watchdog warns about trading in Being AI company – BusinessDesk
- Being AI looking to expand in online education – BusinessDesk
- Malfunction stymies NZX's first listing of the year – Being AI – BusinessDesk
- NZ RegCo warns investors over Being AI shares – BusinessDesk
- Where to start with GenAI: seven free chatbots tested and ranked – BusinessDesk
From around the web
- Financial markets regulator beefs up and standardises cyber reporting requirements – Reseller News
- Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs – The Register
- How Google lost ground in the AI race – Financial Times
- Wall Street is obsessed with the growing Salesforce rival HubSpot, whether or not Google makes an offer to buy it – Business Insider
- Inside Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data – Reuters
- OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 – The Verge
