Azeem Azhar

Of course, the other thing that is going on and the other major question is our world, is artificial intelligence.

And

Again, this year, lots of the top bosses from the AI firms are in town, lots from Anthropic, from Cohere, from You.com.

I've already seen a number of them so far today, and many of the key investors who are involved.

So what am I looking out for?

I've got a pretty busy schedule of meetings and conversations.

Probably best to put them into three categories.

One category is really all about what's happening with AI, with AI in the future of work, in its deployment in the enterprise, how the foundation model companies are evolving and developing.

We expect to see

two IPOs this year from Anthropic and from OpenAI, if the rumors are true.

The second thing that I will be spending a lot of time on is working with some of the fantastic startups that you show up here to try to understand what's going on in startup development growth funding.

And it's a great chance for me to talk to some of the fastest growing companies in deep tech, the founders who generally make their way here.

And the final part that I will be spending time on will be around the energy stack and the energy nexus.

So what happens with the energy demands of AI?

What happens with our decarbonization?

More importantly, what happens with the growth of renewables and how the grids transition?

One of the things about the World Economic Forum's annual meeting is that it brings together the people who actually have to deliver all of this in reality.

And they work at a different clock speed to people who are perhaps reading Exponential View, where we look at this long term trend and we can see the direction, which is it is a solar powered grid supported by certain types of other clean power and batteries.

They are the ones who are sitting on today's mostly fossil grids having to figure out how to go from A to Z. So those are the three things that I am spending time on so far.

It's hard to pick up the mood right now.