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Amazon Alexa Spending Analysis: Big Tech Investment Breakdown
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Groupthink versus Tulips: AI Market Rationality Questioned
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2030 Predictions: Even Odds on AI Timeline Bets
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Bet's for 2030, and as much as timelines are impossible to predict and precise probabilities on them seem sketchy, roughly 1:1 odds aren't looking that bad right now.
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Llama 3 Family: 8B and 70B Models Released with Strong Performance
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1/ Llama 3 – a family of LLMs that include 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned models; Llama 3 8B outperforms Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B Instruct; Llama 3 70 broadly outperforms Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet.https://t.co/xqDJy0f0Vs
— DAIR.AI (@dair_ai) 21 avril 20241/ Llama 3 – a family of LLMs that include 8B and 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned models; Llama 3 8B outperforms Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B Instruct; Llama 3 70 broadly outperforms Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet.
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Amazon’s Massive Investment in Alexa Development and Resources
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I don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 21 avril 2024
Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it. https://t.co/S0FBYmdVVyI don’t think people realize the scale of the very largest tech companies & the resources they can deploy. Amazon has spent between $20B & $43B on Alexa alone & has/had 10,000 people working on it.
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Government Dependence on BigTech Undermines Antitrust Efforts
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Those fighting to reduce BigTech's concentration need to recognize that integration of BigTech infra into gov–via Military contracts, gov't surveillance, etc–is contrary to their aims. The more gov is dependent on BigTech, the harder it will be to check their size/power.
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AI Impact on Jobs: Transformation Speed Varies by Sector
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People likely overestimate how fast AI will impact jobs overall in the short-term, but that doesn’t mean that some jobs won’t transform fast. And there is a lot we don’t know about AI and jobs, because it is different than other technologies From my book: https://
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Groq positioned for AI market growth with game-changing performance
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"There are still many more use cases to be discovered, which will only further grow the AI market and, by extension, Groq’s addressable market… we are confident Groq is well-positioned to continue delivering game-changing AI performance." @TDKVentures https://
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Aligning Generative AI Marketing Initiatives with Clear Strategic Objectives
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Google Enhances Demand Gen Visual Storytelling with Generative AI
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Enhance visual storytelling in Demand Gen with generative AI @google https://
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