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AI Ecosystem – Yet Another Contender

Amazon makes a play for the AI ecosystem. Amazon has launched a new family of foundation models that I suspect are based on Anthropic’s technology that provides a starting point...

Nvidia FQ3 25 – Valuation Support

Reasonable multiple prevents a crash. Nvidia reported excellent results as the AI boom remains on track, but it failed to raise guidance which caused some disappointment, but as the valuation...

Amazon & AI – A Question of Time

No one is going to dislodge Nvidia yet. Amazon is readying the next version of its in-house AI training and inference chips but until CUDA is no longer the control...

Apple & Amazon – Mixed Bag

Apple FQ4 24 – Intelligence upgrades. Apple reported good results as the promise of Apple Intelligence has generated a mini-upgrade cycle, but it was not nearly enough to return the...

Meta & Microsoft – Everything AI

Meta Platforms Q3 24 – Boondoggle? Meta reported good results but the continued heavy investments into AI and The Metaverse from which returns are hard to quantify, made the market...

Samsung Q3 24 – A Note 7 Moment.

Problems look temporary and create an opportunity Samsung has reported good results but made a rare apology to investors for its continued inability to catch up with its competitors in...

Microsoft Copilot – Risk adverse

A very cautious update. Microsoft has launched an updated version of Copilot and while Microsoft remains extremely risk-adverse, I think Microsoft has produced a better product than OpenAI even though...

OpenAI – FOMO Party

A big hangover is yet to come. OpenAI has capitalised on investors’ desperation to invest by raising $6.6bn at a post-money valuation of $157bn and setting very unusual terms that...

AI Ecosystem – Voice part II

This time it should work properly. OpenAI is not launching a new model this year, but it is joining everyone else in declaring that voice assistants are the next big...

Cerebras Systems – Customer No. 1

One customer is a tough risk to swallow at $7.4bn. Cerebras Systems has filed for an IPO at a mooted valuation of $7.4bn (Bloomberg) but with almost all of its...