Archive For

July 2024

Summer Break – Back Friday August 23rd

RFM has taken the company camel on a tour of Southern France and Northern Italy and will return on August 23rd 2024   

Tesla FSD – The Mannequin.

A dummy will be launched. The idea that Full Service Driving (FSD) will be a commercial reality in 2025 remains a fantasy but Mr Musk...

SearchGPT – Non Starter

SearchGPT unlikely to go anywhere. OpenAI’s latest attempt to take on Google is probably more about generating revenue and reducing losses but given Bing’s failure...

Artificial Intelligence – Apocalypse Now

Zuckerberg undercuts an industry. Meta Platforms has just dropped a bomb on the generative AI industry by offering more than OpenAI does and doing so...

Nvidia AI Foundry – CUDA II

Game changer that will be largely ignored. Nvidia AI Foundry is a consequential announcement as it looks like it has been designed to maintain Nvidia’s...

Alphabet Q2 24 – The disconnect

Big disconnect between words, numbers, investments and revenues. Alphabet reported solid Q2 2024 results, but anyone would think from the commentary that all of the...

Artificial Intelligence – Hot Summer

Valuations are still going up. Cohere, one of the current group of white-hot AI startups has raised money at $5.5bn confirming that the market’s appetite...

Nebius – The Phoenix.

From the ashes of Russia comes something interesting Nebius may not seem very exciting on the surface, but outside of AI infrastructure, the company also...

Artificial Intelligence – Better, Smaller, Cheaper

The race to the bottom is beginning.   OpenAI’s smaller GPT-4o Mini promises to kick off a race to the bottom in terms of pricing as...

TSMC Q2 24 – Still Rolling

AI party spoilt by China.    TSMC reported good results and narrowed its guidance to the top end of the range in a move that...