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Thursday • November 14, 2024
Elon Musk spent roughly $10 billion on AI training hardware in 2024
Enough To Be Competitive?
Tesla and xAI, Elon Musk’s companies, will bring online $10 billion worth of training compute capacity by the end of this year, as observed by Sawyer Merritt, a co-founder of TwinBirch and a Tesla investor. And yet, it probably means that both companies will be somewhat behind schedule set by Elon Musk.
Elon Musk and his companies have recently been actively making announcements about AI supercomputers, so indeed, we are talking about huge investments.
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Saturday • November 2, 2024
Microsoft Launches Targeted Ads, Metrics, Diagnostics In Copilot AI Platform
The Ads Will Run Below Copilot’s Organic Response in Results
Microsoft is adding targeted ads, metrics and diagnostic capabilities to Copilot, the company announced Wednesday. The ads will run below Copilot’s organic response in results, with a stronger focus on relevancy of the information served. Users will see fewer ad annotations and extensions, said Paul Longo, Microsoft general manager of AI in Ads, attributing this to the technologies’ ability to more effectively identify relevant and useful content.
“The updated Microsoft Copilot delineates organic and sponsored conversations better and introduces ads in a way that complements Copilot’s simplified layout,” Longo wrote in a post.
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Friday • November 1, 2024
Apple is acquiring the popular image editing app Pixelmator
Pixelmator Says There Will Be ‘No Material Changes’ to its Mac and iOS Apps at This Time
Apple has agreed to acquire Pixelmator, a popular image editing app available on Mac and iOS. Pixelmator announced the news in a post on its blog, saying it will now “have the ability to reach an even wider audience and make an even bigger impact on the lives of creative people around the world.”
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Thursday • October 31, 2024
Meta AI Surges to 500 Million Users in Its First Year, and Isn’t Stopping Now
CEO Mark Zuckerberg Said That Big Spending is Ahead to Support AI’s “Serious Infrastructure”
Meta AI, the company’s virtual assistant, has more than 500 million active users just a year after its launch. On an earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta’s rapid growth highlights the company’s continued focus on advancing AI and developing related tools.
“(Meta AI is) obviously very early in its journey, but it continues to be on track to be the most used AI assistant in the world by end of year,” Meta CFO Susan Li said on the call.
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Wednesday • October 30, 2024
How Perplexity’s AI is reinventing search
You Get Concise and Relevant Summaries with Specific Citations
Perplexity is this year’s best new search tool. It uses AI to answer your questions based on online sources. You get concise, relevant summaries with specific citations. These source links allow you to verify information and dig deeper. Read on for examples, limitations, and alternatives.
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Monday • October 28, 2024
Meta Develops AI Search Engine to Lessen Reliance on Google, Microsoft
It Could Also Give Meta a Backup Option
As Meta Platforms tries to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, the Facebook owner is working on a search engine that crawls the web to provide conversational answers about current events to people using its Meta AI chatbot.
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