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(We asked AI to roast the CRE industry in 500 words. Sadly, annoyingly, scarily... it is pretty good). Alright, let’s talk about the Institutional Real Estate industry—the only place where people wear Patagonia vests like they’re armour and talk about “dry powder” as if it’s not just money they...
DeepSeek’s open source, efficient AI model puts the billions spent to build similar technology in question. DeepSeek r1’s ranking in Chatbot Arena Two headlines this...
Latest foray into 'AI: Bubble or Not?' and it's mostly assuring Cisco the warning parable, a recap Nvidia is actually pretty cheap, when you think about it Capex spending is just...
A few weeks ago, I was arranging a meeting with of his time between London, Dubai and Riyadh, this international man of built environment mystery isn’t well suited to a...
Real Estate and Construction have a reputation as slow to come to the party as far as technology is concerned.
As you know, I’m a techno-optimist. I particularly love AI and have huge hopes that it will dramatically improve our lives. But I am also concerned about its risks, especially:...
Over recent months, colleagues and I have been working on our latest piece of research analysing artificial intelligence use cases for the real estate sector’s environmental transition. What becomes clear at the outset is that there are, and have been, a large number of them. This goes back much further than the hype cycle we have seen play out since the public launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2023.
The development and economic action plan of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is truly remarkable. The planned economic development of the KSA, across every facet of society, via...
If you ask ten proptech venture capitalists (VCs) where the portmanteau “proptech” came from, you’ll get ten claimants. The trusty ol’ Wayback Machine from Internet Archive shows “PropTech” on the homepage of VCs as far back as October 2014, a time when terms like “CRETech” and “RETech” were also in circulation.
This is a question we are often asked at The Proptech Connection (The PTC). The answer is simple, but also complex. Simply, it’s a catch all term that describes technology that...