ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair On How AI Is Transforming Data Analytics And The End Of ‘Froth’ In Silicon Valley
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ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair On How AI Is Transforming Data Analytics And The End Of ‘Froth’ In Silicon Valley On the eve of this week’s ThoughtSpot Beyond ’23 conference, Nair spoke with CRN about the company’s new Monitor for Mobile software, how the new generation of GPT AI technology will transform how people interact with business intelligence tools, and the changing competitive landscape in the data analytics technology sector. ThoughtSpot Beyond ’23 comes amid the uncertain economy that’s impacting many segments of the IT industry, causing customers to take a closer look at their IT spending, and drying up the venture capital that fueled many Silicon Valley startups in recent years. The conference is also taking place as the buzz over AI has grown to a roar in recent months as a wave of IT companies rush to add OpenAI’s ChatGPT and the underlying large language model technology to their products. But a large pharmaceutical company or a bank, they have constraints and questions around, ‘Can I responsibly deploy these innovations while having security, governance and privacy?’ And that gap is the opportunity for forward-looking partners. Sage gives you the option to communicate with all the beautiful vagueness of natural language but then it understands the intent and then translates that into precise queries, executes them on extremely complex and massive-scale data warehouses like Snowflake, comes back with the right answer, visualizes [it in] the best way, and then lets you interact with it, drill [down] anywhere, ask anything further.