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Artificial Intelligence – Reality baseline

2 good use cases for LLMs Bloomberg’s implementation of a chatbot using its own data and my own assessment of Bard, ChatGPT, Bing and so on leads to my conclusion...

Autonomous driving – The FOMO signal

When FOMO bails, it is time to consider buying. Ford’s signalling of its intention to exit autonomous driving marks a point of capitulation for the momentum tourists implying that only...

Lyft – Founder flounder

New CEO looks wrong for the job. Lyft’s founders have stepped back from running their company and have appointed a new CEO who, on the surface, appears to be wholly...

Lucid Q4 22 & Alibaba FQ3 23 – Rough ride

Lucid Q4 2022 – Cash conservation. Lucid has moved into cash conservation mode as it is clearly concerned about demand and cash burn but ironically, all is likely to remain...

CES 2023 – Dark horses of Vegas

China. China stands out in that although being mostly absent from the show this year, China is the most likely to surprise this year. This is because almost everyone in...

CES 2023 Day 0 – Cars, cars & more cars

EV, not Auto – Soggy reality. Making electric cars is not nearly as exciting as vehicles that drive themselves, but the fact that they are here now as opposed to...

RFM 2023 Top 5 – Sombre but sober

China Technology – The last shoe The worsening Covid situation in China continues to hurt sentiment towards Chinese technology but this looks to me like the other shoe dropping and...

CES 2023 preview – Catch up

CES 2023 should be back to its usual mayhem. CES 2023 is shaping up to be a car show once again as this remains the category where there is the...

Tesla – On the radar

Tesla’s actions speak louder than Musk’s words. Tesla is admitting that it has failed to solve the machine vision problem by returning radar to its vehicles, in a move that...

Automotive services – Backward business

Users are not going to subscribe to hardware. RFM has long predicted that automotive digital services are the solution to the problem of lower vehicle sales, but Mercedes and BMW...