Tag: competitive advantage

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Acquires Twice as Many Nvidia AI Chips as Tech Rivals

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/18/1159209/microsoft-acquires-twice-as-many-nvidia-ai-chips-as-tech-rivals Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Acquires Twice as Many Nvidia AI Chips as Tech Rivals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has dramatically increased its purchase of Nvidia’s Hopper chips, surpassing its competitors in the AI sector. This strategic move aligns with Microsoft’s investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure, positioning the…

  • Cloud Blog: Looker now available in the AWS Marketplace, bringing AI for BI to multi-cloud environments

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/looker-now-available-from-aws-marketplace/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Looker now available in the AWS Marketplace, bringing AI for BI to multi-cloud environments Feedly Summary: Looker, Google Cloud’s complete AI for BI platform, is now available on the AWS Marketplace, allowing AWS customers to benefit from Looker’s powerful analytics and reporting capabilities in their environment. As the…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft AI Chief Says Conversational AI Will Replace Web Browsers

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/09/1548200/microsoft-ai-chief-says-conversational-ai-will-replace-web-browsers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft AI Chief Says Conversational AI Will Replace Web Browsers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI division, forecasts that conversational AI will replace traditional web interaction methods, revolutionizing how users engage with technology. He emphasizes the future significance of large language…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/6/gemini-exp-1206/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206 Feedly Summary: New Gemini model: gemini-exp-1206 Google’s Jeff Dean: Today’s the one year anniversary of our first Gemini model releases! And it’s never looked better. Check out our newest release, Gemini-exp-1206, in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API! I upgraded my llm-gemini…

  • The Register: Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/canada_ai_funding/ Source: The Register Title: Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race Feedly Summary: Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility Canada is one of the latest nations to catch the sovereign AI bug and plans to invest $2 billion CAD…

  • CSA: Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Growth: Striking a Balance at Sunbelt Rentals

    Source URL: https://www.zscaler.com/cxorevolutionaries/insights/evolutionary-vs-revolutionary-growth-striking-balance-sunbelt-rentals Source: CSA Title: Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Growth: Striking a Balance at Sunbelt Rentals Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the dual approaches to digital transformation strategies—revolutionary and evolutionary—focusing on how Sunbelt Rentals has navigated these challenges while enhancing security and connectivity. The emphasis on zero trust architecture…

  • Hacker News: Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s O1 reasoning model

    Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/alibaba-releases-an-open-challenger-to-openais-o1-reasoning-model/ Source: Hacker News Title: Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s O1 reasoning model Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The arrival of the QwQ-32B-Preview model from Alibaba’s Qwen team introduces a significant competitor to OpenAI’s offerings in the AI reasoning space. With its innovative self-fact-checking capabilities and ability…

  • Slashdot: AI Helps Indian Ecommerce Firm Cut Customer Call Costs By 75%

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/11/26/131222/ai-helps-indian-ecommerce-firm-cut-customer-call-costs-by-75?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Helps Indian Ecommerce Firm Cut Customer Call Costs By 75% Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Meesho’s launch of a generative AI-powered voice bot for customer support in the Indian e-commerce sector. This innovation significantly reduces operating expenses and expands language accessibility, targeting…

  • The Register: China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/global_scheduling_ethernet_china_uec/ Source: The Register Title: China’s tech giants deliver chips for Ethernet variant tuned to HPC and AI workloads Feedly Summary: ‘Global Scheduling Ethernet’ looks a lot like tech the Ultra Ethernet Consortium is also working on Chinese tech giants last week announced the debut of chips to power a technology called “Global…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.4

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/18/llm-gemini-04/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.4 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.4 New release of my llm-gemini plugin, adding support for asynchronous models (see LLM 0.18), plus the new gemini-exp-1114 model (currently at the top of the Chatbot Arena) and a -o json_object 1 option to force JSON output. I also released llm-claude-3…