Keynotes (Product Announcements)
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Alexa+, A Brief History of Alexa, Amazon — and Apple’s — Mistake
Alexa+ looks amazing, and that’s exactly my problem with it: Amazon is trying to do too much, must like Apple did with new Siri
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Nvidia at CES, Cosmos and Omniverse, Digits
Nvidia’s keynote at CES demonstrated how it is becoming the transformer company.
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ChatGPT Pro, o1 Pro, Sora
OpenAI is now offering ChatGPT Pro for $200/month, along with the full release of its o1 model. It also released Sora, its video generation model. The usefulness will depend on the individual.
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AWS re:Invent, Nova and Model Choice, AI as Commodity
AWS’ re:Invent keynote was predicated on the idea that AI becomes a commodity, not something eternally special.
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OpenAI DevDay, OpenAI’s Wrenching Transition, Lonely At the Top
OpenAI DevDay 2024 was yesterday, and it was a stark difference to DevDay 2023. That’s a symptom of the wrenching changes OpenAI is undergoing in the wake of the unexpected success of ChatGPT.
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Copilot Pages, Salesforce Agents
Microsoft is taking another shot at the unified workspace with Copilot Pages; Salesforce, meanwhile, is going directly to autonomous AI agents. It’s a harder problem technically, but the technology may not be the biggest problem.
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Boomer Apple
Apple is well and truly a services company; hardware is necessary but insufficient for future growth.
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Integration and Android
The most important takeaway from Google’s Pixel event is that it is Android that matters most, and Google’s integration with Android is worth preserving if the goal is spurring innovation.