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Where the AI Budget Goes, the Truth Eventually Follows - IMRAN®
I have been thinking a great deal about a question that keeps surfacing in conversations with executives, investors, operators, and advisors. "Where is the enterprise AI budget really going?" Not the headlines. Not the hype. Not the polished stagecraft of conferences and keynote demos. The real budget.
Because that is where serious business and opportunity show up. Hype can travel for a long time on excitement, fear, branding, and borrowed momentum. Budget is less sentimental. Budget has a way of forcing clarity. It reveals what leaders actually believe will matter, what boards will support, what CFOs will defend, and what enterprises think is worth operationalizing rather than merely admiring.
And the picture is starting to come into focus. Some of what looked differentiated a year ago is already beginning to feel interchangeable. Some AI initiatives that once lived comfortably in the land of experimentation are now being pushed to justify themselves in the colder language of operating budgets, recurring value, and measurable return. Some vendors will emerge with real staying power. Many will not.
That is part of why this moment is so interesting. AI is no longer just a story about technological possibility. It is becoming a story about money, discipline, execution, trust, and leadership. The center of gravity is shifting. Quietly, but unmistakably. I will share a few thoughts on that in the posts ahead. Share any questions you feel are not being asked or answered.
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Michael Chen, Managing Director, DST Global, Hong Kong SAR, China,
Leong Wai Leng, Managing Director; Head, Asia-Pacific, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Canada, Soichiro Takashima, Mayor of Fukuoka, Japan, Wilfred Yiu, Co-Chief Operating Officer; Head, Equities, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), Hong Kong SAR, China, Wang Feng, Editor-in-Chief, FTChinese.com, United Kingdom speaking in the „Against the Odds Funding Tomorrow’s World“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Betazone" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
See my albums list for some of my best work: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
Ena Cratsenburg, Chief Business Officer, Ginkgo Bioworks, USA
Lu Yimin, President, China General Technology (Group) Holding, People's Republic of China, Ren Minghui, Professor, School of Public Health, Peking University, People's Republic of China, Christine Zhou, Senior Vice-President; President, Region China, Novo Nordisk, People's Republic of China, Sylvana Quader Sinha, Founder, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Praava Health, Bangladesh speaking in the „Healthcare Systems of Tomorrow“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Arena" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Created in DALL-E 3.
This was a gen I did last year and just cleaned up in Microsoft Designer.
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
Carrie Chan Kai Yi, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Avant, Hong Kong SAR, China, Gong Ke, Immediate Past President, World Federation of Engineering Organizations, France, Clifford Kupchan, Chairman, Eurasia Group, USA, Eswar Prasad, Professor, Cornell University, USA, Zhu Min, Vice-Chairman, China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE), People's Republic of China; Member of Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, Tian Wei, Host, World Insight with Tian Wei, China Global Television Network (CGTN), People's Republic of China speaking in the „China's Economy The Big Rebound“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 29 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Studio" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Neeraj Aggarwal, Regional Chair, Asia-Pacific, Boston Consulting Group, India, Lee Geun, Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea,Thomas Trikasih Lembong, Director, Consilience, Singapore, Liu Qian, Managing Director, Greater China, Economist Group, United Kingdom, Ivan John E. Uy, Secretary of Information and Communications Technology of the Philippines, Jaime Ho, Editor, Straits Times, Singapore speaking in the „Safeguarding Asias Prosperity“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Studio" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
Check out my albums list for some of my best work: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/
See my 'Tutorials & Commentary on AI' album for some information about how I make my images: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/72177720325900...
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
- Josh
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, Nano Banana.
Post production using Adobe Firefly.
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
Created in Leonardo AI.
The prompt asked for Art Nouveau and I felt like what was returned was more French Empire, but still pleasing.
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
See my albums list for some of my best work: www.flickr.com/photos/200044612@N04/albums/
See my main account for my photography, videos, fractal images and more here: www.flickr.com/photos/josh-rokman/
Made with Image Creator from Microsoft Designer, formerly known as the Bing Image Creator. Powered by DALL·E 3.
I think that AI image generation is similar in many ways to photography. The camera itself handles all the fine details, but the photographer is in charge of curating the types of images that will be created.
Ultimately, it is all about maximizing the probability that something good will be created.
This is very similar to AI image generation, in terms of the skills involved and what the human does vs. what the machine does.
You can't compare AI image generation to the process of actually making these images from scratch with 3D software or paint/pencils, where the human controls every detail.
However, I think the process really is very similar to that of photography, as I made the case for above. I think that DALL-E 3 is by far the most powerful AI image generation tool currently available.
- Josh
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
Post production in Adobe Firefly.
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
Sanjeev Gupta, Executive Director, Financial Services, Africa Finance Corporation - AFC, Nigeria, Dora Liu, Deputy Chief Executive Officer; Chief Quality and Transformation Officer, Deloitte, People's Republic of China, Younes Sekkouri, Minister of Economic Inclusion, Small Business, Employment and Skills of Morocco, Shani Senbetta, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kidame Mart, Ethiopia, Kellee Tsai, Dean of Humanities and Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China, Sanjeev Gupta, Executive Director, Financial Services, Africa Finance Corporation - AFC, Nigeria speaking in the „Trickle Up Unleashing SME Potential“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 29 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Ignite" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Keyu Jin, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, Xiaolan Fu, Founding Director, Technology and Management Centre for Development, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, Stephan Mergenthaler, Head of Strategic Intelligence; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum speaking in the Horizon Scan: China Future Trends session at the at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Betazone Room. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Greg Beadle
Opening Plenary with Li Qiang, Premier of the People's Republic of China and Klaus and Hilde Schwab at the at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 27 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Adrian Lovett, Chief Executive Officer, Development Initiatives, United Kingdom, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Co-writer of Factfulness, Co-founder Gapminder, Innovator and Change Maker, Gapminder, Sweden speaking in the Dispelling Common Myths session at the at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Hub D. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Faruk Pinjo
Sebastian Buckup, Shinpei Kato, Nikolaus Lang, Angela Wang Nan speaking in the Supercomputers on Wheels session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Room: Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
Split view of a diver entering the ocean, showing above water a boat on the surface and below water a deep ocean filled with sharks and marine life, with realistic light rays and cinematic atmosphere.
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
James Lloyd, Assistant Development Director, Mohammed Bin Salman City, Mohammed Bin Salman Foundation (MiSK), Saudi Arabia, Lui Lok Lun, Chief Executive Officer, Varadise, Hong Kong SAR, China, Hui Pan, Chair Professor; Director, Center for Metaverse and Computational Creativity, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China speaking in the „Metaverse Metropolis Navigating Digital Twin “ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Hub B" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek
Created in Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, aka, "Nano Banana."
See more here: www.youtube.com/@journeymanplayer7459
Lim Seok Hui, Chief Executive Officer, Philanthropy Asia Alliance, Singapore, Ma Jun, Chairman, Green Finance Committee, China Society for Finance and Banking, People's Republic of China, Peya Mushelenga, Minister of Information and Communication Technology of Namibia, Joseph Luc Ngai, Chairman, Greater China, McKinsey & Company, Hong Kong SAR, China, Sabrina Peng Yijie, Chief Sustainability Officer, Ant Group, People's Republic of China, Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum, Spriha Srivastava, United Kingdom Bureau Chief, Insider, USA speaking in the „Innovating for the Planet“ session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 29 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center "Arena" Room - Copyright: World Economic Forum/Jakob Polacsek