DeepSeek can’t count. In a bizarre statement made on GitHub over the weekend (see here), DeepSeek has laid claim to 545% profit margins which is a mathematical impossibility. This leads me to wonder whether this is another attempt to generate headlines to promote the excellence of Chinese AI instead of informing everyone of the true state of affairs. On day...
Competition heats up even more. Amazon has finally announced the new version of Alexa but at the same time, OpenAI has released its new model GPT-4.5 to compete with the rapidly growing field of competitors which signals that the top of the market is close, if not already here. Amazon has launched Alexa Plus which promises to offer a “conversational...
Not too little, not too much, just right. Nvidia reported results that confirmed that the AI spending spree remains on track, but this growth is now captured in the estimates meaning that surprises will be hard to come by. The valuation of Nvidia remains undemanding relative to the growth that it is still experiencing meaning that while the really big...
Irrational exuberance is still with us. The valuations being attributed to certain AI start-ups who have no products and talk like they don’t care about profit continue to defy reality as they are very unlikely to uncover the secret of intelligence upon which their valuations depend. The two companies in question are Thinking Machines Lab founded by Mira Murati (ex-CTO...
I remain sceptical about these claims. Huawei is making some bold claims with regard to the yield that it is achieving on the AI chips it is making which, if verified, would have a substantial impact on China’s quest for technological independence. The FT’s article (see here) that makes these claims declines to name its sources but I suspect that...
Perplexity starts a race to the bottom with deep research. In the space of a month, pretty much everyone now has or will soon have a deep research tool confirming that performance gains are flatlining and that beyond a fat wallet, there are no real barriers to entry in the generative AI game. What will follow now will be a...
AI momentum finally makes it to China. Alibaba reported good results where a jump in cloud revenues allowed the company to justify large investments in AI, which has allowed the AI momentum story to finally come to China after ignoring it for 2 years. FQ3 25 revenues / EPS were RMB280.1bn / RMB2.55 ahead of estimates of RMB275.1bn / RMB2.43....
New modem needs to succeed to re-open hostilities. Apple has finally launched a phone that uses its own in-house 5G modem, but the real test of success will be whether anyone can tell the difference between the in-house version and the Qualcomm modem that is used in all of the other iPhone 16 models. If the new modem works well,...
The count of equally good models continues to rise xAI has released the latest version of its Grok model and, while it scores very well on all of the most advanced benchmarks, it struggles like everyone else with the basic stuff implying once again that LLMs alone are not going to deliver the superintelligence that the industry craves and that...
Richard is founder, owner of research company, Radio Free Mobile. He has 16 years of experience working in sell side equity research. During his 11 year tenure at Nomura Securities, he focused on the equity coverage of the Global Technology sector.
Tencent – A Must Win
Tencent has to become the agent of choice on Chinese smartphones Tencent has passed a crucial milestone in ensuring the durability of the ecosystem it built in China by becoming the most downloaded AI chatbot on Chinese iPhones. This is a must-win because if someone else supplies the agent by which users access their smartphones, then Tencent is almost certain...