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At the Convergence AI Dallas business conference, Mark Cuban warned that \u201cif you\u2019re not using one of the large language models \u2026 you\u2019re falling way behind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Roughly three years after the transformational artificial intelligence bot\u00a0ChatGPT first commanded the world\u2019s attention, one of Dallas\u2019 most famous\u00a0\u2014 and famously opinionated\u00a0\u2014 entrepreneurs has some blunt advice for North Texas\u2019 business community.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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At an event in Irving on Tuesday, Mark Cuban warned that \u201cif you\u2019re not using one of the large language models \u2026 you\u2019re falling way behind.\u201d Cuban went on to draw an analogy between AI and other recent tech innovations, including personal computers and the internet, which also initially drew skepticism before becoming widely adopted.<\/p>\n
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The billionaire investor even recounted being called \u201can idiot\u201d after founding Broadcast.com, the internet radio streaming he took over in the late 1990s and went on to sell to Yahoo for more than $5 billion. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was always a group of people that were first, and always a group of people that were naysayers,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd the people that were first typically ended up getting further ahead. I think it\u2019s the same with AI today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The wealthy\u00a0Shark Tank star and former Dallas Mavericks majority owner made the comments during Convergence AI Dallas, a two-day AI and business conference hosted by the Dallas Regional Chamber at the Irving Convention Center. The event sold out, with around 1,200 registered guests, Dana Jennings, a DRC executive, told The Dallas Morning News.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Add Preferred Source<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The high-energy confab included multiple panels and talks\u00a0\u2014 topics included AI and Y\u2019all Street, AI\u2019s impact on the workforce and federal government regulation\u00a0\u2014 as well as promotional booths and technical demonstrations, with sponsors that ranged from Accenture and Aecom to the T.D. Jakes Foundation and SMU\u2019s new Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Now in its third year, the event\u2019s high attendance also hinted at the growing popularity of AI. A couple years ago, recalled Dave Evans, a managing partner at Sentiero Advisors, a Dallas-based AI-focused venture capital fund, it felt impossible to walk a few feet at the event without bumping into someone he already knew.\u00a0<\/p>\n But this year, Evans told The News, he felt like every face was new.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s surprising, but it\u2019s also awesome,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve grown beyond being that more kind of cottage group of \u2018AI people,\u2019 if you will, and it\u2019s kind of expanded out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018A great democratizer\u2019<\/p>\n Cuban\u2019s talk marked the event\u2019s keynote address. The entrepreneur was interviewed by Alex Kantrowitz, a veteran business journalist and CNBC contributor who founded Big Technology, a tech-focused newsletter.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Early in the talk, Kantrowitz needled Cuban about a recent comment the businessman made that seemed to disparage AI\u2019s capabilities by comparing it to \u201ca hungover intern.\u201d But Cuban sought to reframe that comment, clarifying he was only referring to the more narrow capabilities of AI agents, the personalized systems people can now build to interact with AI on their behalf.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you put together an agent \u2026 it does all the tedious work that you don\u2019t want to do, and all the stuff that you hope to get to at some point but you just don\u2019t have the time to get to,\u201d Cuban said. \u201cYou can let the [human] intern stay out later, come to work later, because this agent\u2019s going to work 24-7.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Later in the talk, Cuban, who revealed that he has his own AI agent hooked up in his car, emphasized that he saw AI as \u201ca great democratizer of knowledge\u201d \u2014 with a key divergence emerging between people who were using the technology to enhance their own knowledge and productivity and those who were using it to essentially avoid doing work. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThose people who are using AI to learn, those people who are curious and just want to keep on learning more\u00a0\u2014 AI is phenomenal. You will always have an edge,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you\u2019re just using it so you don\u2019t have to do the work and it\u2019s your junk intern, you\u2019re going to struggle.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n By signing up, you agree to our Terms Of Use<\/a> and acknowledge that your information will be used as described in our Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cuban also extended the divergence idea to the corporate world, arguing that firms that don\u2019t embrace AI were essentially condemning themselves to irrelevance. \u201cWhen it\u2019s all said and done over the next three years, there\u2019s going to be two types of companies,\u201d he said. \u201cThose who are great at AI, and those who are out of business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIf the CEO doesn\u2019t understand that,\u201d Cuban said at another point, \u201cshe\u2019s not going to be the CEO very long. And if they still keep that CEO who\u2019s not using AI to get ahead, you tell me so I can start a company to kick their ass.\u201d<\/p>\n The line drew laughs and then loud applause.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Convergence AI Dallas business conference, Mark Cuban warned that \u201cif you\u2019re not using one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-230905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775016909_917_rawImage.jpg\" "\\"#\\"")
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