AI brings Consumer Cloud back from the dead | State of the Cloud 2024 | Bessemer Venture Partners 

Talia Goldberg, Kent Bennett, and Maha Malik from Bessemer come together to discuss how consumer cloud is "back from the dead" in the AI era.
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Top takeaways:
- LLMs are enabling new consumer applications that extend and enhance text, visual, and auditory experiences, opening up potential for disruption in legacy consumer cloud categories.
- There is significant early-stage activity in functionally specific consumer AI applications, with clear opportunities for motivated entrepreneurs to build sustaining cloud companies that address unmet consumer needs.
- Potential new areas for consumer AI include clones and companions, creativity and creation, interactive entertainment, and memory augmentation, among others.
- By 2030, AI-generated content or products are expected to dominate the top three businesses in the Attention Economy.
- Multiple consumer cloud IPOs are predicted over the next five years.