2023 Year in Review and 2024 Predictions

@AaronDelp and @BGracely talk about the biggest stories, trends and events of cloud in 2023, and some predictions for 2024.

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SHOW NOTES:

• All the 2023 Year In Review Show Notes
• 2023 Year-End Mailbag
• 2022 Year-End Mailbag
• 2022 Year in Review and Predictions
• Our 2021 Predictions
• Our 2020 Predictions

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2023 PREDICTIONS: 

• Our 2020 Predictions
• Our 2021 Predictions
• Our 2022 Predictions 

AARON’S PREDICTIONS:

• A Hyperscaler that isn’t 1 or 2 throws in the towel - We start to see consolidation in the category
• Platform Engineering hits its Trough of Disillusionment
• Compact, OSS, specialized AI models will become the standard for anything not in the cloud (on device, datacenter, edge)
• A new category emerges - AI Customization for the masses (Data Science as a Service) - intersection of ITOps and AI

BRIAN’S PREDICTIONS:

• We’ll see the 1st 500M-user AI service
• AI economics start to change (smaller models, non-GPU chips)
• 40-50 former unicorns ($1B valuations from 2020-22) get acquired 
• Every product adds an AI / LLM capability to simplify usage

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