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Natural Language Generation

June 16, 2022
Max Abram
AI Apps, Trends

Writing this content is a desk worker’s low-skill labor, demanding little skill but lots of time. (The quality of GMail autocomplete, introduced in 2018, illustrates just how repetitive business writing is.) It’s this attractive target that makes Natural Language Generation (“NLG”) products so exciting, because this new technology has finally grokked the patterns interwoven in our prose. NLG products are newly feasible, enabled by linguistic “transformer” models like GPT-3 from OpenAI and Jurassic-1 from AI21 Labs.

The Opportunity in Usage Based Billing Infrastructure

Though usage-based models are not new—having first been championed by AWS (2005) and Twilio (2008) — there’s been a notable increase in their adoption in recent years. This trend continues to accelerate as the landscape for usage-based models quickly evolves. Scale's Max Abram on the next frontier of Usage Based Billing Infrastructure.

The Secret to Selling Software Is Not Selling Software

Scale partner Eric Anderson observes that for software startups, distribution is often more important than unique technology.

Business Models for Platform Ecosystems

March 17, 2022
Niall Wall
Go-to-market, Trends

Former head of platform at Box and Workday on the business model and monetization decisions for success with your platform strategy.

Scale’s Newest Partner Jeremy Kaufmann Caps Year Of Team Growth

February 8, 2022
Andy Vitus
Trends

Today's news caps a year of growth for Scale across the investing and Portfolio Operations teams.

The Great Exit Database: What Might a Supersized 2021 Mean For 2022?

January 20, 2022
Sam Baker
Trends

2021 was a big year for venture-back technology IPOs and M&A. Here's a look at what it all means for today's early-stage founders.

Web3 Weekend

January 12, 2022
Eric Anderson
Trends

With the spotlight on web3 and questions of decentralization vs. centralization, Scale's Eric Anderson discusses the role users will play in picking winners and losers.