This Week in GTM [Friday, October 18, 2024]

Axios: The AI manifesto is having a moment
Axios reporter Ina Fried highlighted the surge of memos from AI leaders at major companies. This trend either reflects optimism about imminent breakthroughs or an attempt to address public skepticism as the industry works to deliver on its promises.

Annual Planning Sucks — A CPO, CRO, CFO, and COO Share Advice on How to Make it Better Vanta, Linear, and Linktree reveal their annual planning tactics.
First Round Capital interviewed leaders from Vanta, Linear, and Linktree revealing their annual planning tactics. There are plenty of interesting anecdotes and approaches shared in this article along with annual planning strategy templates.
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LatticeFlow’s LLM framework takes a first stab at benchmarking Big AI’s compliance with EU AI Act
SiliconANGLE reported that startup LatticeFlow AG released COMPL-AI, a framework that can help companies check whether their large language models comply with the EU AI Act. The AI model evaluation initiative — which they also dub “the first regulation-oriented LLM benchmarking suite” — is the result of a long-term collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Bulgaria’s Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT).