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USA vs. China – Tit for tat

The USA still has the upper hand. In the face of further restrictions on its ability to develop AI algorithms, China is threatening to restrict the export of graphite in...

Autonomous driving – Bloody economics

An unattractive proposition. It looks increasingly like it will be Cruise rather than Tesla or Waymo that gets to market first with robotaxis giving it the best opportunity to be...

Baidu – ERNIE 1.0

The real ERNIE 1.0. Baidu rolled out the latest version of its ERNIE chatbot which is a great improvement over previous versions and in my opinion, is what the company...

Artificial Intelligence – Regulatory debate pt. III.

Regulation will be better if targeted at people, not machines. Governments and regulators are moving to impose regulations on Artificial Intelligence but a lack of understanding on their part may...

Meta Platforms – Dial M pt. III

Here we go again. Even though the launch of a chatbot is a rinse and repeat of 2017’s Facebook M (see here), Meta Platforms’ complete dominance of the open-source community...

OpenAI – Haymaker

OpenAI makes hay while the sun shines. When a company that has issues with making profits can raise money at a valuation of $85bn, it becomes abundantly clear that investors...

Amazon – No chops

Investment underlines Amazon’s AI weaknesses. Amazon is staking its claim in the world of generative AI but at the same time, the size of the bet it is making on...

Amazon – 6 years late

Alexa might finally deliver on a 6-year old promise. Amazon’s annual Alexa event was dominated by generative AI, but the reality is that Amazon promised all this 6 years ago...

Artificial Intelligence – Whoops Microsoft

Microsoft accidentally makes the case for edge AI. A simple mistake by employees exposed terabytes of Microsoft’s internal data to the world underlining that generative AI is still at the...

Chatbots – Galloping obsolescence

Alexa, Google Assistant et al have no value. After many years of wrangling, there is finally a smart speaker in the market that supports both Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant...