From investors’ hands to Nvidia’s pockets. xAI has raised $6bn in new funding that will be used to bring products to market and build infrastructure but with an unremarkable product suite so far, the main beneficiary of this new cash looks like it will be Nvidia. The AI bubble continues to inflate with another $6bn being raised valuing xAI at...
Intel is not going down without a fight. Intel has rushed out a new processor to combat the threat posed by Qualcomm to its laptop business and while I am certain that Intel will do fine on the performance counts, it is power consumption and battery life of the devices it powers that will decide whether or not this is...
Competition crushed in the stampede. Nvidia contemptuously swept aside both its critics and its competition and reported another huge set of results that confirmed that the AI frenzy and the bubble continue to grow and inflate. FQ1 25 revenues / Adj-EPS were $26.0bn / $6.12 ahead of forecasts of $24.6bn / $5.60 and Nvidia signalled that the strength will continue....
Microsoft clarifies its AI ecosystem ambition. Although the real action was yesterday, Microsoft used its 2024 Build keynote to lay out its proposition to developers for using Microsoft tools to build AI and it did a far better job of it than Google and in half the time. Microsoft’s message was very clear in that it showed the AI technology...
CoPilot+ good. Battery life better. Microsoft is so confident that Windows on Arm is going to work that it didn’t even mention this fact when it presented its new Arm-powered devices leaving AMD and Intel with everything to do. In a very carefully scripted keynote (see here) Microsoft launched two new Surface devices and showcased more than ten others all...
The financial noose tightens. The end of Fisker, the imminent end of several others as well as worsening financial conditions in China clearly point to the ongoing slowdown and shakeout in EVs where only the strongest are going to survive. The problem with EVs is relatively straightforward in that the proposition of an EV is immature and not ready for...
Arm’s 3rd shot at Windows laptops might just work. Apart from AI, Microsoft Build is likely to see the main launch of Qualcomm, Arm & Microsoft’s 3rd attempt at addressing the Windows laptop market, and this time around, it has by far its best chance of success. This will then be followed by the PC trade show of the year,...
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 a long, rambling and discombobulated 2 hours. If Google intended to amaze and astound then it failed badly, but it did manage to deliver a solid set of updates that...
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 to use, in a move designed to drive engagement and establish OpenAI as the premier AI ecosystem. OpenAI fired the first shots in the developer conference season that will see...
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Artificial Intelligence – Reasoning Debate
A highly misleading marketing message. In an effort to promote the prowess of their models, the last few weeks have seen the great and the good in generative AI claim that their models can reason which would mark a big step towards truly intelligent machines if it were not demonstrably false. The debate over whether large language models (LLMs) can...