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One tale that always resonates when I’m speaking on artificial intelligence and data with executives around the world is the one I’ve dubbed, “Red Queen Syndrome”.
I suspect you’re familiar with Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. This parable of running as fast as you can, just to stay where you are, is all the more apt this week.
A Black Swan AI upstart in China, reportedly built for just $5.8 million, turns the NASDAQ upside down with its challenge to Stargate, a $500 billion AI plan for America — an initiative that a week ago was claiming twice the scope of the Manhattan Project versus Germany and the Space Race versus Russia.
Unless you’ve been on a desert retreat, I know you’ve read volumes on DeepSeek meets Stargate. So I won’t belabor that here (but I will in my article next week). The point is, Alice’s famous remark is prescient a century and a half after Carroll imagined the Red Queen.
She says, “In our country, you’d generally get to somewhere else, if you ran very fast for a long time.” That reminds me of the comments I get from business leaders struggling with storms in which only the data-driven will survive.
“Now, here, it’s different,” I quote the Red Queen’s counsel as apt for today’s reality of AI. “When you want to get to another place, you must run twice as fast!”
Not twice as fast, but exponentially faster
If the parable strikes a chord, I’ve got good news. My colleague at data.world and our first employee, our VP of AI Operations Brandon Gadoci, has produced a ten-minute exercise informed by our work with many customers as well as internally (we’ve automated a lot of our own operations with AI.) You can take this assessment online that will help you run not just twice as fast, but exponentially faster.
It’s called the AI Readiness Survey. One of my friends with a small business, who’s reasonably savvy on these topics, took the assessment. Here’s how he scored against industry averages:
My friend’s score on Brandon’s benchmarks:
- Data Culture: 50% (Industry avg: 60%)
- Governance & Compliance: 27% (Industry avg: 56%)
- Data Management: 33% (Industry avg: 48%)
- Data Quality & Semantics: 40% (Industry avg: 54%)
- Operations & Infrastructure: 30% (Industry avg: 62%)
- AI Strategy: 40% (Industry avg: 57%)
- Advanced Analytics: 40% (Industry avg: 64%)
As you can see, my friend needs to do some work. I bet you do too because, frankly, we all do. As I’ve often written, and did so again two weeks ago, the tools of the data catalog can help ready you for this new age of vast potential.
Yes, we can help you run exponentially faster. But to get you up to maximum strength and resilience, you need to first measure just where you are. This baseline measure is what Brandon has designed. With his AI handiwork you can use the survey results to chart your own AI fitness regimen for 2025.
Build up your AI muscle with a data-driven strategy
Check it out now. And get your free readiness roadmap for what I promise will be the warp speed pace of your business lifetime this year. DeepSeek vs. Stargate — and the drama of all the players, from OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank, Meta, Google, Anthropic, Amazon, the United States, and China — is just a preview of coming attractions.
2025 is going to be quite an exponential year!
