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20VC: Enterprises Will Not Adopt AI without Forward-Deployed Engineers | Who Wins the Data Labelling Race: How Does it Shake Out? | How Synthetic Data Threatens the Future of Human-Generated Data with Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies

December 31, 2025·1 hr 24 min·5 clips
MIT reports just 5% of Gen AI deployments work in enterprises—why is adoption so low despite exponential model improvements?
Harry Stebbings interviews Matt Fitzpatrick, CEO of Invisible Technologies, about the challenges of AI adoption in enterprises. They discuss the gap between model performance and real-world deployment, the necessity of forward-deployed engineers, and the evolving economics of AI services. Matt shares insights on data labeling, synthetic data, and how companies can avoid costly AI failures.

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Enterprise AI reads as a data and validation problem, with human feedback still central.

The discussion frames enterprise AI less as a model breakthrough than as a data and validation problem. Matt Fitzpatrick argues that human data will matter more over the next decade, while synthetic data is mostly suited to base-truth tasks like math.

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You want the enterprise AI bottleneck nobody can hand-wave away.

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