Big Tech and AI
How Big Tech is approaching AI
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When paradigms change, previous winners have the hardest time adjusting; that is why AI might be a challenge for Apple and Amazon
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Positioning AI contenders — and losers — by their tech philosophy and business potential.
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Breaking down the Big Tech AI landscape through the lens of integration and modularization
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A single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI
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Google could do more than just win the chatbot war: it is the one company that could make a universal assistant. The question is if the company is willing to risk it all.
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Nvidia’s Risky Business
Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly.
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Apple Earnings, More on Amazon’s Earnings
Apple’s earnings (and stock) are limited not by memory but rather chip shortages; then, more on Amazon’s earnings and Andy Jassy’s market analysis.
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Google Earnings, The Frontier Case, Amazon Earnings
Google’s earnings seemed to confirm the Anthropic hedge; it was Andy Jassy who explained why their — and Amazon’s — capex was justifiable.
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IBM Misses, IBM’s Mainframe Moat, IBM’s Many AI Problems
IBM announced preliminary results that spooked the software market generally; this is a story, however, specifically about IBM and its mainframe franchise.
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The OpenAI Super App, ChatGPT = Codex, Whither Chat
OpenAI has refashioned Codex as the new ChatGPT; is the company abandoning the chat category they pioneered?
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Apple Sues OpenAI, Apple’s Real Problem
Apple is suing AI for stealing trade secrets; there is one guilty employee, but this mostly feels like lashing out.