AI-native tech startups can weather an economic nuclear winter

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Recently, I wrote a piece for VentureBeat distinguishing between companies that are AI-based at their very core and ones that simply use AI as a function or small part of their overall offering. To describe the former set of companies, I coined the term "AI-Native." As a technologist and investor, the recent market downturn made me think about the technologies poised to survive the winter for AI -- brought on by a combination of reduced investment, temporarily discouraged stock markets, a possible recession aggravated by inflation, and even customer hesitation about dipping their toes into promising new technologies for fear of missing out (FOMO).