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Our Latest AI Insights

  • How Venture Exits to Private Equity Continue to Grow—With Fuel From AI

    Midmarket technology private equity firms and their portfolio companies have become an important exit pathway for VC-backed companies, especially in the AI era.

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  • Inside the AI Economy: Competition, Compute, and the Next Phase of Enterprise Adoption

    William Blair's Arjun Bhatia and Jonathan Ho discuss the latest developments shaping the AI landscape, from intensifying model competition and pricing pressure to data center expansion, cybersecurity risks, and the pace of enterprise adoption.

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  • The Materials Boom Behind the AI Buildout

    AI data centers, electrification, and rising infrastructure spending are driving a powerful demand cycle for core materials products.

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  • How AI Clusters Are Supercharging Memory Demand

    The AI boom isn’t just about faster processors; it’s about moving data fast enough to keep them busy.

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  • AI’s Biggest Healthcare Impact Isn’t Where You Think

    Despite excitement around drug development, AI’s most tangible healthcare benefits today are in reducing administrative burden and enhancing diagnostic imaging.

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  • Can AI Improve Drug Development? It Depends on the Data

    Drug development is costly and often failure-prone. AI can help screen out weak candidates earlier, but only if the data is strong.

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  • Inside China’s AI Boom

    As China develops an increasingly independent AI ecosystem, new investment opportunities are emerging across software, semiconductors, and digital infrastructure.

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  • How AI is Revolutionizing Software Development

    From AI coding assistants to autonomous agents, AI is fundamentally reshaping the software development lifecycle.

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  • The Sub-$10 Hourly Wage: Financial Modeling for the Humanoid Workforce

    What if robots become cheaper than human labor? This analysis breaks down the race to sub-$10 hourly labor and the massive investment opportunity that could follow.

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  • Navigating the AI Shift in Search and Digital Advertising

    AI is turning search into an answer engine—reshaping traffic, SEO, and ad monetization—but what does that mean for investors?

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