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Google I/O – First Blood

OpenAI draws first blood in the competition against Google. Google continues to struggle with its messaging as OpenAI was able to deliver more in 30 minutes than Google did in...

AI Ecosystem – Opening Salvo

OpenAI jumps in just before everyone else. OpenAI’s new model has very little to do with improving raw performance and everything to do with making it easier and more fun...

Automotive Ecosystems – GM’s Big Bet.

Good, but it needs to be better. A large proportion of the automotive industry thinks that GM has taken leave of its senses by ditching CarPlay in its electric vehicles...

Automotive Ecosystems – Play Suspended

Mercedes bails on Apple CarPlay 2.0. Mercedes Benz has confirmed that it has no plans to support the next generation of CarPlay as it has realised that letting Apple take...

Apple Vision Pro – Too Much, Too Early.

Apple loses very little with the Vision Pro. It looks like Apple is going to miss its 1m target for the Apple Vision Pro with commentary from suppliers indicating volumes...

Meta Platforms Q1 24 – Bad habits

Zuck returns to a bad habit. Meta reported reasonable results but Meta’s habitual tendency to spend resurfaced spooking the market which sent the shares down 15% which I can understand...

Meta Platforms & AI – Size Does Matter

Meta Platforms is implying its models are the most efficient. In the ever-expanding, world of huge AI models, Meta is hinting that it is going the other way with Llama...

Baidu – China AI Ecosystem

Baidu leads the way. Baidu has launched a series of tools that allow developers to create generative AI services based on its ERNIE foundation model in yet another sign that...

Artificial Intelligence – Missing Link

The link is still missing.   Meta and OpenAI are claiming that their next models will be capable of reasoning which, if true, will be a key step forward in...

Google AI – Penny Pincher

Gen AI is clearly very expensive to operate. Google is toying with the idea of putting new features of its flagship search service behind a paywall which indicates that the...