Mount Everest or Mount Tam?

Incredible to work with NVIDIA AI and Lambda to bring our full stack Generative AI solution to enterprises for secure and edge computing use cases. We will be demoing the full solution at #sofweek2023 Congrats to the Yurts team, Project Jack Barker has landed!

We’ve been working closely with #NVIDIAInception partner @yurtsai on their latest project and are excited about their success!

1/ Announcing my new venture, Superframe. We’re making it painless to configure your Go To Market tools so that you can stop worrying about whether you can implement that new campaign/process/automation/reporting in time to make a difference this quarter. venturebeat.com/enterprise-ana…

Meta: The Only AI Regulatory Body That Matters, by Ben Van Roo open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

The media and "AI experts" lost their minds and ignored decades of research and objective measures in the workplace. Let's nosedive in. Clearing the Air: Debunking the Sensationalism of Air Canada’s AI Mishap, by Ben Van Roo open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

Eisenhower's National System of Interstate. Ford's Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Will Trump contemplate a Strategic Computing Reserve? realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/…

XYZ Managing Partner Ross Fubini in conversation with @yurtsai CEO Ben Van Roo re: the challenges of building AI for government & high-security environments, trends, and what it's like to sell into customers with the highest expectations for new tech. Watch below ▶️

Turning the Tide: Meta’s Embrace of U.S. National Security in AI Development, by Ben Van Roo open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

RIP Bob Uecker. There will never be another.

Deepseek: the most popular free app, possibly a far bigger national security risk than TikTok. It may completely reshape the AI market and geopolitics. 5 statements that may prove to be true, either way, AI has changed. open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/… #DeepSeek #genai #china #llms

I joined @WillCainShow_ to unpack DeepSeek. Its efficiency claims raise big questions—this could signal a shift toward open models. Is DeepSeek a Trojan horse for corporate data? With security risks & export controls in question, the game is changing. foxnews.com/video/63679679…

Last Sunday, I wrote “DeepSeek: The Biggest Splash in AI Right Now”, focusing on five claims about DeepSeek. Things went crazy starting Monday. Here's the post-mortem a week later. open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/… #DeepSeek #ArtificialIntelligence

I returned to @WillCainShow_ talk about Meta's reported new investment in data centers throughout the country and why states and cities should embrace this next wave of infrastructure. foxnews.com/video/63693688…

NIPRGPT: Success, Criticism, and Future, by Ben Van Roo open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

When someone memes your partnership announcement and it slaps. Legion + Palantir

For the defense tech community, 2025 may be one of the most aggressive years for VC-backed startups. It's also the year that one of the most well-known programs -- the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) -- is up for reauthorization and an overhaul. open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

My latest post. Open, Closed & Everything in Between: The Great AI Re‑Shuffle of ’25. open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

My latest post reviewing GPT-5 and what it means for enterprise and national security. It's a look back on a substack I wrote over 2.5 years ago before GPT‑4 landed. It felt like a Death Star that would massive and eventually destroyed. open.substack.com/pub/benvanroo/…

This may be the best advertisement for the greatness of 1980s American life that I’ve ever seen …