Digital Assistants
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Google Earnings, Microsoft Earnings
Google’s earnings were inscrutable, which doesn’t inspire confidence; then Microsoft’s earnings looked incredible, but it’s important to trace where the AI growth is coming from.
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AI at CES, The Rabbit R1
CES is all about AI, which now describes everything. Then, the Rabbit R1 points to a future of hardware designed to lower the invocation cost of AI.
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The New York Times’ AI Opportunity
The New York Times is suing OpenAI, but it is the New York Times that stands to benefit the most from large language models, thanks to its transformation to being an Internet entity.
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Google’s True Moonshot
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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Google Gemini; Performance, Infrastructure, and Integration; Apple MLX
Google’s Gemini launched with a demo that misrepresented its capabilities, which seems like a bizarre decision given that Gemini seems capable enough on its own, and also demonstrates Google’s ability to integrate from silicon to model.
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The OpenAI Keynote
OpenAI’s developer keynote was exciting, both because AI was exciting, and because OpenAI has the potential to be a meaningful consumer tech company.
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Microsoft’s
SurfaceAI Event, The New Microsoft, The Old MicrosoftMicrosoft’s Surface event was actually an AI event. It both showed how different Microsoft it, and how it hasn’t changed at all.