Recently, DeepMind announced a breakthrough in AI for code generation. AlphaCode, which uses large-scale transformer models to generate code, was pitted against humans in a series of programming contests run by Codeforces. Contestants were asked to design novel solutions to abstract problems, which required a blend of natural language understanding…

By Chris Rainville We’re lucky enough to meet hundreds of inspiring new companies each year. Each time, we ask ourselves: “Could this market support a multi-billion dollar business? Do the founders have what it takes to create such value?” Invariably, these are tough and subjective questions. One can evaluate markets…

by Christophe Rainville and Simon Levine Much has been written in recent years on the creator economy. …

If you’ve ever sold to large enterprises, we suspect you’ve felt the pain of procurement. You might have faced a seemingly endless RFP cycle; the tedious back-and-forth of requirements and specifications; or a cumbersome workflow in an archaic ERP system. On the other side of the table, procurement teams…

(The first documented instance of double-entry bookkeeping: Pacioli’s Summa de arithmetica, printed in 1494) When Luca Pacioli first recorded the method of double-entry bookkeeping in the fifteenth century, he may not have anticipated the impact he would have on the modern world. He is certainly unlikely to have anticipated the…

COVID-19 is an immense human tragedy. We feel its reverberations not just in public health, but in almost every aspect of the wider economy, as it impacts jobs and industries in ways that few anticipated. The heroes of this crisis are those on the front line: healthcare professionals, educators, supermarket…

When reading about the state of retirement savings in Europe, one often encounters the journalistic trope of a ‘time bomb’. There’s some substance behind the hyperbole. Europeans are materially underprepared for retirement, in a convergence of demographic, social, and macroeconomic forces which policymakers can’t resolve alone. …

We’ve all been there. A warning light on your dishwasher panel, and when you open the door, a pool of water that won’t drain away. Or, perhaps, your new speakers fail to connect to your wifi network. You open a manual (or turn to Google), but you can’t do it…

Machine Intelligence is one of our main themes at Mosaic. That means we spend much of our time researching and meeting ML-driven applications and enabling infrastructure. Looking back at 2019, one of the main themes of our conversations was, how do organisations implement ML into their core technology? The…