Keynotes (Product Announcements)
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Windows Returns
Microsoft held its most compelling Windows’ event in years, because Windows is no longer the center of the company.
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Google I/O, Google’s Strengths and Weaknesses, AI Search
Google’s I/O had impressive parts and less impressive ones, depending on how much innovation was required. The most important news, though, was the intense focus on transforming search.
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OpenAI’s Spring Event, GPT-4o, OpenAI and Apple
OpenAI launched GPT-4o, and the killer feature is speed. Then, news of an OpenAI partnership with Apple raise questions about the strategic priorities of both companies, as well as Google.
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Apple’s iPad Event, The Peaceful iPad, Disney Earnings
Apple’s iPad event shows the company has accepted a modest vision for the iPad, and that’s ok. Then, Disney faces reality as an app.
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Gemini 1.5 and Google’s Nature
Google Cloud Next 2024 was Google’s most impressive assertion yet that it has the AI scale advantage and is determined to use it.
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Nvidia Waves and Moats
Nvidia’s GTC was an absolute spectacle; it was also a different kind of keynote than before ChatGPT, which is related to Nvidia’s need to dig a new kind of software moat.
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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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AWS:reInvent Continued, AI PaaS and SaaS, Nvidia and AI IaaS
More on AWS:reInvent, as the day’s second keynote focused primarily on AI. Plus, how Nvidia successfully pushed DGX Cloud onto every major cloud provider.
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AWS:reInvent, Serverless and the Smiling Curve, AI Services
The opening keynote at AWS:reInvent was about serverless, which is a technical manifestation of how the Internet leads to smiling curves. Plus, AWS’s CEO comments on OpenAI.