AI & Marketing Insights for SMEs
The first two parts of this series were the bad news. This is the part most readers underestimate. While flat-rate frontier subscriptions were getting repriced, a real open-weight tier matured underneath. GLM-5.1, Qwen 3.6, Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek V4. Ollama is at 52 million monthly downloads. Claude Code can be pointed at any of them. Here is what small businesses should actually do about it.
Thinking about Japan entering the Malaysian market? Success requires more than a great product; it demands a strategy tailored to local habits. Discover the honest truth behind an onigiri shop's failure and the critical market localization steps needed to thrive in Kuala Lumpur.
In Part 1 I laid out what happened to flat-rate AI pricing in March and April. This piece is about why. Once you put OpenAI's inference spend, the projected 2026–2027 US AI capex, and the actual size of the consumer AI market in the same paragraph, the surprise stops being that flat-rate plans are cracking. The surprise is that they held this long.
Three weeks ago I wrote that data centres in space looked like a bubble. The bubble showed up sooner than I expected, and not in orbit. It showed up in the pricing emails landing in my inbox. GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1. Anthropic has been quietly tightening Claude limits since March. The flat-rate AI subscription era is ending.
Is your digital foundation ready for the future? An Intelligent Platform is no longer a luxury but a necessity for scalability and competitive edge. By integrating modular architecture and data insights, you can transform a static tool into a dynamic growth engine. Let's explore how to build one.
Discover the magic of the Tokyo Python meetup, where developers of all levels gather to share knowledge. From deep dives into email protocols to monorepo strategies, this community proves that the people are what make the language truly powerful. Explore the highlights from the latest Spring Talks.
Blue Origin has filed for 51,600 satellites. SpaceX wants a million. The AI power crunch is pushing data centres into orbit. From where I sit, running an AI company in Tokyo, this has the classic shape of a bubble. Small businesses should be looking at the ground, not the sky.
SoftBank is building a platform to aggregate newspaper and publisher content for AI companies, with revenue sharing for creators. As someone who runs an AI content company in Japan and has been arguing for compensating creators for years, I should be cheering. I am not. Not entirely.
SparkToro's data shows AI tools hold just 3.2% of desktop search. That looks small, and it is. But if you focus only on the current number and ignore the structural mechanics underneath, you will be caught off guard by the shift that is already happening.
SparkToro's research lumps Amazon product searches, YouTube video queries, Instagram lookups, and Google searches into one basket. That is a category error, and if you base your marketing strategy on it without understanding why, you will misallocate your budget.
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