🌍 Insights from TechCrunch Disrupt 2024: The Future of Space, SaaS, & AI 🌍 This week we attended #TechCrunch #Disrupt in San Francisco, where some of the brightest minds across Space, SaaS, Fintech, and AI came together to share game-changing ideas and trends. Here are some key takeaways from this year’s event: 🚀 #SpaceTech is evolving quickly, with new solutions emerging in satellite maintenance, space debris management, and navigation. For instance, ThinkOrbital developed an Xray to scan satellites, and a robot arm to service them. And Lumi Space shoots photons from a ground-based laser at space debris to literally shoot it out of the way of satellites. As investment grows in this sector, startups with #DualUse (government and commercial) strategies show resilience by diversifying their market risk. #Advice for founders: if you’re building in dual-use, make sure you’re not developing 2 completely separate products/strategies! 💼 #SaaS: Even though #AIAgents are raising huge funds (Sierra) it seems the industry is still figuring out the exact definition of agents. Most are built into #chatbots with #LLMs, and then plug in to other services or apps so the user has to click around less (imagine an airline chatbot that directly rebooks your flight and updates your calendar without you ever having to leave the chatbot). But basically, agents can be deployed every time you know which action a user will take after the first action. How much #value the agent offers depends on how much time and effort it takes the user to do those steps manually (and of course, how accurate the agent is). 📡 #AI: The #AgenticAI example above was in a chatbot, but it looks like more general purpose agents will soon also help with anything on your screen. Similar to Microsoft’s announced-and-then-pulled-back Recall, there was news from both Anthropic and Google this week working on similar features: Anthropic, via Youtube: http://bit.ly/48v93Rg Google, via The Verge: https://bit.ly/4fuoL1r 🤖 #Humanoids: Even though humanoid robots were in the media quite a bit recently, they weren’t a topic at Disrupt. The consensus is that they won’t live in our households anytime soon, because the huge amount of training data simply doesn’t exist yet. As innovation across these fields accelerates, there’s a world of opportunity for telecommunications and tech companies to collaborate with these emerging sectors. Let’s stay connected and explore what’s next together! #TechCrunchDisrupt #Innovation #Telecommunications #Startups #Switzerland
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