Articles by Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), founder of the AI2 Incubator,  and a venture partner at Madrona.

Latest from Oren Etzioni

Opinion: SpaceX is no Tesla

Seattle AI veteran Oren Etzioni argues that SpaceX’s record-setting IPO valuation prices in three unproven bets at once — and that the Tesla playbook doesn’t apply at this starting point. Read More

Etzioni on AI: Ten Commandments for AI Startups

AI researcher, entrepreneur, and investor Oren Etzioni lays out 10 commandments for AI startups — covering business models, distribution, inference costs, and avoiding dependence on any single frontier model — preceded by 10 classics that apply to startups in general. Read More

Etzioni on AI: The Virgin Unicorns

Twelve AI labs have raised more than $29 billion at a combined valuation approaching $130 billion, without shipping anything a customer can buy. Oren Etzioni examines what history says about how this story ends. Read More

Etzioni on AI: The AI capex conundrum

The AI capex debate hinges on whether AWS and other hyperscalers will see demand grow fast enough to justify massive spending — and the data to settle that argument is still about a year away. Read More

Etzioni on AI: How to read with AI

The fundamental question here is not productivity. It is about the impact of AI reading on you as the reader: What happens to your retention, your understanding, your ability to synthesize across sources? Read More

Etzioni on AI: AI coach or AI ghostwriter? The choice is yours

AI is a fork in the road disguised as a shortcut. Down one path, it’s a coach that studies your weaknesses, challenges your assumptions, and pushes you past your limits. Down the other, it’s a ghostwriter, and you are putting your name on someone else’s thoughts, slowly forgetting that you ever had your own. Read More