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...
USA vs. China – Closing Loopholes
ASML bucks the Chinese trend. Excellent results from ASML indicate that China is still buying as much equipment as it can get its hands...
SoftBank and Graphcore – AI Armoury
More than meets the eye. Contrary to my expectations (see here), SoftBank has acquired AI chipmaker Graphcore for around $600m which is way below its...
SearchGPT – Non Starter