Jeff Huber @jeffreyhuber

# The Context Layer

The impact of AI on how organizations work is just beginning.

Today humans use LLMs by pasting in text and asking for feedback. Even by next year, this will seem archaic and antiquated.

AI is going to turbo-charge the productivity of information work. Skilled humans, with AI at their beck and call, will be 10-100x more productive than they are today.

It's not even hard to imagine this- software that would have taken me many weeks or months to build can now be done in days. Next year - what takes days, will take hours. SaaS, as we have known it, is dead.

This is a great re-wiring of labor.

In the 90s - much of the discussion about information work naturally revolved around the internet. Oracle famously published their vision of "e-business transformation".

"We wanted one unified system with one global database. With all our information in one place, we could easily access and share information. We'd make better decisions, groups would cooperate, and IT costs would go down." -- sounds familiar.

When I look at Chroma's customer base - I already see this happening.

This "context layer" is all an org's data and context being unified to empower agents and AI transformation.

It makes sense that we would see the largest AI adoption happen first in internal productivity. First it came for coding - and now it will come for all other information work. It's relatively easier to accelerate work that is already being done through the hands of expert humans than risk "putting AI in front of customers".

The market will demand that every Fortune 5000 company in the next 3 years build a context layer and transform their businesses with AI. If they don't - they will die.

In 2023, I said, "Large models are extremely powerful and just getting more and more so. This will change how all questions are asked and answered. Every piece of data on earth will have multiple embeddings associated with it to make it interpretable to large and tiny models. That means every org in the world is going to be spinning up a new kind of DB inside their organization in the next 5 years." - we are right on schedule.

The context layer will be the hive-mind of how organizations of the future live and breathe. It will make them faster, more responsive, and way more efficient. Chroma will be the central nervous system of how it all gets done. Models will come and go - but data is forever.

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