Getty’s ‘Generative AI by iStock’ is a fine if dull alternative to DALL-E, Clipdrop for AI images The new iStock service is so boring, it may not matter that the company is indemnifying people against copyright suits. https://
zdnet.com/article/i-trie
d-gettys-new-ai-image-generator-and-it-doesnt-really-compare-to-dall-e/
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Getty’s iStock AI Image Generator: Underwhelming Alternative to DALL-E
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Nvidia Advances AI PC Technology with ACE Production Microservices
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Nvidia makes the case for the AI PC at CES 2024 In addition to new RTX "Super" chip laptops, Nvidia announced that, building upon its ACE, for “avatar cloud engine,” it will offer “Production Microservices," which let game developers add to their games Nvidia programs for speech
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Analysts Endorse Apple, Dell, Microsoft for 2024 AI Growth
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Sell-side most interesting: Apple defended, thumbs up for Dell, Couchbase, Microsoft Apple got two endorsements as analysts see recent selling overdone and look forward to AI potential, while Microsoft is among the best software names for 2024, and Dell and Couchbase are new
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Democratizing Plagiarism: LLM Accessibility in 2024
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In the ever-upbeat tone of technology evangelists, you could think of 2024 as the year that we democratize plagiarism. As processing power improves, and frameworks such as TensorFlow Lite become more efficient, it's possible to imagine at least fine-tuning large language models,
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Market Pullback in 2024: Tech Stock Profit Taking Begins
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The TL Podcast for January 7th: A rough start It was a rough start to 2024 as investors seemed to take profits on a very strong 2023, especially as regards outperformers such as Apple and Nvidia, although there were several votes of confidence for semiconductors and software.
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Pure Storage CEO Discusses Analyst Understanding of AI Economics
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Please enjoy my interview with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo “A number of our investors have told us, directly, they said, ‘You know, some of your analysts just don't understand this at all,’ meaning, they don't even understand the concept of how the financials change” to
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Apple’s Cash Strategy Drives Investor Value Returns
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The secret of Apple’s success: it’s the cash Apple is a cash cow, in good years and bad. That’s all that investors care about, a stable capital returns payer, growth be damned. That’s likely to remain investors’ focus for many years to come. https://
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Apple’s Growth Challenges and Cash Flow Investment Analysis
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My friend Eric Savitz wrote a really nice piece for Barron’s last month about Apple’s challenges to growth. https://
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Nvidia’s AI Revenue Expectations May Be Overestimated Beyond 2024
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The case against Nvidia Financial expectations beyond 2024 are too high for Nvidia, says D.A. Davidson analyst Gil Luria, given that AI may still prove cyclical. And yet, no one knows the full scope of a business that has just changed scale dramatically. Nvidia may still be
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SuperDuperDB: Easy Entry Point for Enterprise AI Applications
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A gentle introduction to AI apps with SuperDuperDB Enterprise apps will start with simple tasks such as searching through text or images to find the match to a natural-language search. https://
zdnet.com/article/how-su
perduperdb-delivers-an-easy-entry-to-ai-apps/
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