The 2023 MAD (Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data) Landscape – Matt Turck

It has been less than 18 months since we published our last MAD landscape, and it has been full of drama. When we left, the data world was booming in the wake of the gigantic Snowflake IPO, with a whole ecosystem of startups organizing around it. Since then, of course, public markets crashed, a recessionary economy appeared and VC funding dried up. A whole generation of data/AI startups has had to adapt to a new reality. Meanwhile, the last few months saw the unmistakable, exponential acceleration of Generative AI, with arguably the formation of a new mini-bubble.