Azeem Azhar

Final takeaway on all of this is I was really lucky to spend a couple of hours with about a dozen startup founders and a couple of really amazing investors, venture investors yesterday.

And I was really impressed with some of the things that came out of that.

I'll just pick up one.

It's a company called Hippocratic AI.

They are making

AI-based tools to broaden access to nurse-oriented healthcare in the US.

Essentially, they have agents that can make phone calls and provide the kind of telecare that a trained nurse can.

And I'm going to dig more deeply into what they do, but a really impressive presentation in terms of the efficacy and cost of delivering healthcare that way.

One very interesting takeaway from the CEO of Hippocratic was that all of their models, their AI models,

were open source models so that they could maintain the control and manage the cost.

In fact, ultimately the gross margin of using those models rather than the so sourced paid for models.

I had a fantastic sense that this particular AI debate as the reality dawns and we're only a couple of miles away from that hill has turned into one that is about how do you get over that hill, get across that hill, as opposed to fundamentally veering that hill.

Anyway, just to give my sort of net reflections, much more practical.

I've heard very little about other topics.

There's not been much of a sustainability discussion happen across my track, but there could be loads going on that I don't see because it is such a rich event.

But definitely the two things that have stood out generically, generally within the Congress Center, but also in my dinners and walking around and

just chatting to people and listening to them and learning from them has been the awakening of the sheer economic, the sovereignty question on the one hand, on the second, the practical questions as they relate to AI as it makes its way into the workplace.

That's

a wrap on my Davos dispatches.

The two dominant themes that emerged from this week were clear.