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The F42 brief #027
Here’s your Monday dose of The F42 Brief.
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The one thing that’s making all the noise …. with a bit of fact checking.
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💡Innovator Spotlight
Founders that are doing stuff differently.
🛠️ Tool of the Week
Something useful to up your startups velocity.
📌 Note to Self
Stuff I constantly remind myself about, don’t want make the same mistakes again.
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I came across a thought-provoking piece in The Economic Times (28 March 2025) where Bill Gates shared which jobs he believes are likely to survive the AI shake-up over the next decade.
We've spoken about this a lot in our AI for Startups sessions, as the tools we explore and the use cases expand and accelerate like no other tech before. The debate around whether a dystopian or utopian world lies ahead is heating up.
He didn’t sugar-coat it: most roles are up for disruption. But he did single out three professions that still have a bit of breathing room:
Coders – Humans are still needed to build, refine, and debug the very systems powering this AI boom. Ironically, the people creating AI are the ones least likely to be replaced by it — at least for now.
Energy Experts – The energy sector is too complex, volatile, and regulated for AI to handle solo. Strategic thinking, crisis response, and regulatory navigation still require human oversight.
Biologists – Especially in medical research, where creativity, hypothesis-building and intuition are still crucial. AI can crunch data, yes — but spotting the next breakthrough? Still very human.
Gates was pretty blunt: in ten years, AI might be doing most jobs better than we can — unless we evolve. And I tend to agree. It’s not about panic, it’s about preparation. Upskill, adapt, and focus on areas where human judgment still matters.
We’re not out of a job just yet, but we’re definitely on notice.
🤖 Gates named 3 jobs that might survive AI. I’ve got 10 more — and one of them is the reason I’m raising my son to be a founder. Read the full story here
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Our No-Nonsense Approach:
Action-Focused:
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Learn from world-class investors, seasoned founders, and top operators who’ve been in the trenches.Tangible Outcomes:
From mastering your pitch deck to building a workable financial model, everything we do is designed for hard, measurable results.
Key Benefits:
Startup Playbook:
Organise your essentials from day one.Go-To-Market Strategy:
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Roll up your sleeves in live sessions designed for immediate application, and stay accountable with live Q&A sessions.
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💡Innovator Spotlight
🧠 Expert Watch: What’s Next for NLP?
Natural Language Processing (NLP) has quietly become one of the most powerful drivers of innovation behind the scenes — and it's evolving fast. From smarter chatbots to multilingual real-time translation, experts are now seeing NLP go beyond simple automation and into reasoning, multi-modal understanding, and deeper context awareness.
🧰 Quick distinction: NLP is the broader field focused on language tasks; LLMs are just one (very powerful) tool within it — like ChatGPT or Claude.
The shift? We’ve moved from models that understand text to ones that can now interact with voice, images, and video in parallel — thanks to breakthroughs like GPT-4V and Gemini. Meanwhile, leaner open-source models like LLaMA are making this capability far more accessible to startups without enterprise-scale budgets.
But with the hype comes some hard questions. Experts are raising the flag on bias, data privacy, and ethical deployment — especially where NLP tools are used in hiring, lending, or healthcare. As models become more fluent, the responsibility to steer them wisely is only growing.
💬 TL;DR: NLP is no longer just a backend tool — it’s now central to UX, growth, and trust. If your product interacts with humans (and let’s face it, whose doesn’t?), you’ll want to keep an eye on where this is heading.
If you have not joined the Fusion42 Community on Telegram — A space for Founders, Framers, and Funders who show up to get **it done,
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🛠️ Tools of the Week. Telegram
Why we rate it: Telegram isn’t just a messaging app — it’s becoming the go-to infrastructure for founder-led communities, direct customer comms, and lightweight automation.
From broadcast-style channels to intimate group chats, Telegram gives startups and VCs a noise-free, high-trust environment to engage users, test ideas, and drive action — without the algorithmic interference of bigger platforms.
What makes it powerful:
🔒 End-to-end encrypted chats = trust
🤖 Bots that automate onboarding, FAQs, and campaign flows
📣 Broadcast channels that cut through the noise
🌍 Global reach with multi-platform access
💬 Perfect for event backchannels, cohort groups, or investor updates
If you're not already using Telegram to build signal-rich conversations around your product or fund, it might be time to rethink your comms stack.
🧠 Bonus tip: Pair it with bots like Combot or TypeBot to level up onboarding and engagement.
If you are a telegram expert please reach out to me
📌 Note to Self
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