Tag: competitive landscape
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The Register: Copilot’s crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/09/copilot_vs_notebooklm/ Source: The Register Title: Copilot’s crudeness has left Microsoft chasing Google, again Feedly Summary: Surely Redmond knows that almost nobody has tamed unstructured data? Opinion A year ago it looked as if the world could be Microsoft’s oyster. The software giant dominated the enterprise, was catching up to cloudy rivals, and then…
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The Register: TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/tensorwave_amd_gpu_cloud/ Source: The Register Title: TensorWave bags $43M to pack its datacenter with AMD accelerators Feedly Summary: Startup also set to launch an inference service in Q4 TensorWave on Tuesday secured $43 million in fresh funding to cram its datacenter full of AMD’s Instinct accelerators and bring a new inference platform to market.……
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic: Message Batches (beta)
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/8/anthropic-batch-mode/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic: Message Batches (beta) Feedly Summary: Anthropic: Message Batches (beta) Anthropic now have a batch mode, allowing you to send prompts to Claude in batches which will be processed within 24 hours (though probably much faster than that) and come at a 50% price discount. This matches…
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The Register: Germany is monitoring Microsoft to ‘stop anti-competitive practices’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/german_regulators_monitor_microsoft/ Source: The Register Title: Germany is monitoring Microsoft to ‘stop anti-competitive practices’ Feedly Summary: Wants to peer into gaps in DMA to keep Redmond honest in cloud and AI Germany plans to keep closer tabs on Microsoft to identify and “stop anti-competitive practices" that are not currently covered by the European Commission’s…
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Slashdot: Apple No Longer In Talks To Invest In OpenAI
Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/24/09/30/2040238/apple-no-longer-in-talks-to-invest-in-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple No Longer In Talks To Invest In OpenAI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s withdrawal from discussions to invest in OpenAI’s $6.5 billion funding round indicates possible strategic shifts in the tech industry, particularly in relation to major players like OpenAI and Microsoft. This trend…
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Hacker News: Do AI Companies Work?
Source URL: https://benn.substack.com/p/do-ai-companies-work Source: Hacker News Title: Do AI Companies Work? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a critical analysis of the economic and competitive landscape of large language models (LLMs), highlighting the high costs of development, the rapid obsolescence of models, and the competitive pressures within this burgeoning…
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The Register: Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2 billion bond sale
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/24/snowflake_seeks_to_raise_funds/ Source: The Register Title: Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2 billion bond sale Feedly Summary: Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Cloud-based data warehousing and analytics biz Snowflake has issued $2 billion in bonds with the aim to buy back shares and potentially launch an acquisition…
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Hacker News: OpenAI unveils o1, a model that can fact-check itself
Source URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/12/openai-unveils-a-model-that-can-fact-check-itself/ Source: Hacker News Title: OpenAI unveils o1, a model that can fact-check itself Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has launched its latest generative AI model, named o1 (code-named Strawberry), which promises enhanced reasoning capabilities for tasks like code generation and data analysis. o1 is a family of…
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The Register: AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/12/amd_conference_comments/ Source: The Register Title: AMD sharpens silicon swords to take on chip and AI rivals Feedly Summary: CEO Lisa Su sets sights on being best in GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs, everything… as Intel struggles Comment Once the relative minnow of the chip industry, AMD senses blood in the water following a series of…
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The Register: Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/sap_on_prem_cloud_split/ Source: The Register Title: Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom Feedly Summary: This is despite the German vendor’s preferred upgrade path There is an even split for large enterprise customers of SAP ERP systems between on-prem and the public cloud – the German vendor’s preferred upgrade…