AI & Machine Learning
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Generative AI is the bridge to the next computing paradigm of wearables, just like the Internet bridged the gap from PCs to smartphones.
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The first wave of successful AI implementations will probably look more like the first wave of computing, which was dominated by large-scale enterprise installations that eliminated jobs. Consumer will come later.
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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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More on Bing, particularly the Sydney personality undergirding it: interacting with Sydney has made me completely rethink what conversational AI is important for.
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The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
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An Interview with Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi About Designing Chips
An interview with Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi about the history of chip design, how AI makes new processes possible, and why the future is systems.
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An Interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff about AI Abundance
An interview with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff about founding Salesforce, building an enterprise platform, and why that puts Salesforce in the best position to build AI agents.
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TSMC Earnings, Margins and Arizona, ASML and Peak Lithography
TSMC’s earnings highlight foundry economics and the importance of AI; meanwhile ASML and TSMC both give evidence that CPUs are struggling
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Intel and AMD to Collaborate on x86, A History of Intel and AMD, ARM and AI
Intel and AMD are coming together to evolve x86; this is a shock given their history, but not a surprise given their reality.
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Elon Dreams and Bitter Lessons
SpaceX’s triumph is downstream of a dream and getting the cost structure necessary to make it happen; Elon Musk is trying the same approach for Tesla self-driving cars
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Tesla’s Robotaxi Event, Tesla Self-Driving 12.5 Experience, Starlink and Airlines
Tesla has a Robotaxi event, and its current self-driving software is impressive. It’s still Level 2, though, and has a long way to go to match Waymo. Starlink, meanwhile, is an example of how Musk alters market structure to win.