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Artificial Intelligence – The Sledgehammer

LLM controls come at a cost to functionality. OpenAI has finally launched its voice assistant but even after months of delay, key features are missing underlining just how difficult it...

China Tech – Withering Away

The heart of Chinese innovation is dying. China intends to become a global technology leader but the state of innovation in China is moribund meaning that unless something changes, it...

OpenAI – Strange Action & AI Conference

OpenAI acts like someone with something to hide. OpenAI’s shiny new model is already stoking controversy as OpenAI is threatening to eject users who have the temerity to try and...

OpenAI – Hot Mess pt. III

The hot mess may be tidied up. OpenAI’s corporate structure has been unfit for purpose for over a year now but finally, it looks as if investors paying a pre-money...

Artificial Intelligence – Race to the bottom

Price and feature erosion are bad signs.   One would have expected Anthropic’s latest innovation to be part of its premium tier, but the fact that it is free from...

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 to make a dent in...

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...

China vs. USA – Admission of Reality

Huawei says the quiet part out loud.   Huawei has admitted that true leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing is unlikely to be achieved in China, meaning that homegrown technologies that rely on...

Apple Intelligence – Bells and Whistles.

Apple replicates Copilot+ with privacy bells and whistles Apple has made its play in generative AI by picking to copy the best that its competition has to offer and rolling...

Computex 2024 Day 0 – Nvidia – Stealing Thunder

Jensen consumerises GTC. Nvidia stole the early Computex limelight away from AMD with another massively attended keynote that mostly rehashed GTC but made the story more accessible and lifted the...