Enterprise AI is waiting for its iPhone moment

The market doesn’t really take off until somebody manages to hide the ugly parts. That is precisely where corporate AI is right now.

I still remember where I was when Steve Jobs walked onto the stage at the Moscone Center in January 2007. I was watching the livestream, and somewhere around the first demo I had the distinct feeling that the ground had shifted. Not because the iPhone invented anything—it didn’t—but because it made everything that already existed finally work together. That’s how he managed to spark the smartphone revolution.