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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 dominance in AI when CUDA...

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 revenues were coming from its...

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 for overvalued paper remains unabated...

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 it is only slightly inferior...

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 peak valuation meaning that the...

OpenAI – Strawberries and Cream

Project Strawberry unlikely to get the cream. OpenAI has come up with a system to rank its progress towards artificial general intelligence (AGI) but apart from the first two, the...

AMD – The Blueprint

AMD emulates Nvidia but has more to do. AMD is building a vertically integrated AI toolkit based on its silicon but there are two elements still missing that will still...

Samsung Q2 – Party On!

Samsung confirms the AI party is still on. Samsung has reported another set of excellent results confirming that the spending on AI is continuing apace and that it may be...

Baidu – World No. 1?

Baidu is now the biggest & cheapest AI ecosystem. While OpenAI is withdrawing from China, Baidu has already moved to fill the void as its users have jumped by 50%...

Apple & OpenAI – Arm’s Length

Being on the board will make no difference. Inviting Apple as an observer onto its board is a pitch to Apple to more deeply integrate OpenAI into its ecosystem but...