Happy birthday to SAS - a half a century of putting in the foundations for trustworthy AI
SAS turned fifty this month, arguably earning the title for the oldest private AI company in continuous operations, and a private one at that. It may or may not go public in the near future to take advantage of the current market climate to grow faster and in alignment with its ethics, business, and people model. It’s not in a hurry because it has been profitable for all of those 50 years. I would go one step further to suggest this points to something seminal about what might be required to build long term foundation for trustworthy AI.
Of course, this year when people talk about AI, they mean the fancy LLM (Large Language Model) or agentic stuff. Sometimes the adjacent data harnesses get billing as supportive infrastructure to the rockstar, rather than the main event that makes or breaks this year's darling memes. But most of the people talking...
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