In this article, the Dean of Western University’s Ivey Business School offers reflections on what business leaders should do as AI embeds itself in our day-to-day working lives. This article offers timeless advice because it is about how businesses should adapt in the face of technological change. Externally, leaders have a strategic imperative to create and maintain a distinctive value proposition in the face of strong AI-enabled forces for convergence. .....more

In January 2025, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. launched a breakthrough large language model (LLM) on the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) landscape. DeepSeek was a disruptive application: it had modest hardware requirements and low training costs and was released as a modified open-source app, allowing users access to the weights and codes DeepSeek used in its learning process. Users could run .....more

Teaching note for product W45604.