Xi Jinping is pushing the country's tech industry to be oriented toward applications for AI, charting a pragmatic alternative to Silicon Valley's pursuit of AGI
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently chastised Silicon Valley for burning billions chasing AGI instead of focusing on useful AI. — China ag...
The price per token for AI models has fallen, but costs for developers are rising as newer reasoning models require more tokens to complete tasks
With models doing more ‘thinking,’ the small companies that buy AI from the giants to create apps and services are feeling the pinch X: @ericjhonsa , @emollick , @mims , @mims , @mims , @mims , and @m...
Amazon reached its goal of 100% clean energy in 2023, seven years ahead of schedule, after investing in 500+ solar and wind projects, but experts are skeptical
but AI-driven climate challenges loom Adrian Weckler / Irish Independent : Amazon claims breakthrough with ‘100pc’ renewable energy target reached for data centres EU About Amazon : Ten takeaways from...
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently
Which makes me wonder why they don't build huge data centres in northern Quebec. — Close to hydro generation. — Free cooling, both ambient air and the cold river water. — Do these take lot of pe...
Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company, with a $3.34T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023
It's the most profitable chip brand, too Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Nvidia surges past Microsoft as world's most valuable company Kevin Raposo / KnowTechie : Nvidia surges past Microsoft, no...
Similarweb: ChatGPT's worldwide desktop and mobile website visits fell 3.2% MoM to 1.43B in August, following ~10% drops from each of the previous two months
students are a large segment of usage Vishvanand Subramanian / @vishvanands : News outlets have moved on from Threads “unraveling” and now claim that ChatGPT is dying.. As always, citing SimilarWeb, t...
Although Google disclosed many financial metrics for the first time in Q4, it removed cost-per-click, which has steadily declined, and the number of paid clicks
more ads in more places. Or rather, more ineffective ads in more places. This is an unsustainable business model.” https://www.zdnet.com/... Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : Although Google disclosed YouTube...
Rakuten: Amazon's share of US online sales can dip to ~20% around Thanksgiving only to soar to ~50% before Christmas, as users trust Amazon to deliver on time
Amazon operates at scale. Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Amazon's share of online shopping jumps from 20% to 50% after Black Friday because users trust them to deliver. Wife experienced this ...
Researchers say Chinese academics now account for more than one-third of global publications in physical sciences, engineering, and math, exceeding US share
Peter R. Orszag / Bloomberg : Tweets: @makispoke , @bopinion , @carnage4life , and @gracelinlang Tweets: Max ‘Odogwu’ M. / @makispoke : This article discusses (at a high level) how China went from an...