Down but not out. A rotten year for The Metaverse has one more gift to give which is the cancellation of the Pico 5 headset which is one of the most popular devices for developers which will create yet another slowdown in the emergence of The Metaverse. Pico is ByteDance’s VR subsidiary which has produced 4 versions of the Pico...
Autonomous driving plumbs new depths Tesla’s recall takes autonomous driving to a new level of doubt and depression, but it is precisely at the point at which everyone is about to give up that the moment of greatest opportunity occurs. Tesla is recalling 2m vehicles after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) following a 2-year investigation into the safety...
Google vs Epic – Roll of the dice Google’s loss to Epic when Apple won for pretty much the same issue makes very little sense and is a demonstration of how much going to court can be a roll of the dice. A federal jury in San Francisco has determined that Google illegally prevented competition for its Google Play app...
Europe fares better than I expected. Unless I missed something, the preliminary deal on how to regulate AI in the EU looks far more realistic and business-friendly than I had previously feared especially given how similar the original pronouncements of the EU and the CCP were. The EU has reached a deal on AI Regulation which will now need to...
Jensen will not be losing much sleep yet. AMD has unveiled a fearsome competitor to Nvidia’s H100 and H200 series but does not seem to have realised that the way to beat Nvidia is to create a software development platform that is better than CUDA. Fortunately for AMD and the rest of the AI-training chip wannabes, the emerging AI ecosystems...
Google gets its act together. Google has stopped panicking (see here) and launched a new large language model (LLM) which it claims takes multimodality to a new level (true) and greatly improves the model’s ability to reason (dubious). Most importantly, Google has productised Gemini meaning that there are different versions of it which are already being targeted at users, customers...
Meta is the senior partner. Meta is moving to cement its grip on the emerging AI ecosystem by partnering with a range of “have-not” AI companies to increase support of open-source where its foundation model is the industry standard. Meta is leading the AI Alliance (see here) which includes IBM and around 50 other AI companies, universities and tech companies...
IBM lays out its wares & Nvidia goes for Japan IBM & Quantum computing – Still no Pong. Quantum computing is lining up to be the replacement for silicon when the rules of physics finally make it obsolete, but even with advances from IBM, there is still a very long road to travel. IBM will publish a series of papers...
The race has just begun The contenders are already jostling for position when it comes to ownership of the emerging AI Ecosystem where OpenAI is in the lead, but its internal foibles have given everyone else and especially Meta a leg up. The smartphone ecosystem is already well established where Apple, Google and Tencent are the clear winners, but the...
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Apple – Stocking filler.
Apple will find a way out. Apple has received an unwelcome Christmas present as it faces a ban on importing Apple Watch products in The USA as a result of infringing Masimo’s blood oxygen patents but I am pretty sure that it already has a workaround ready to go. The ITC has issued a “limited exclusion order” against the Apple...