Apple CEO Tim Cook hinted at an AI announcement coming from the company later this year. “Let me just say that I think there’s a huge opportunity for Apple with Gen AI and AI, without getting into more details and getting out in front of myself”
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Google Rebrands Bard to Gemini Advanced Launch
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A leaked changelog just revealed three major Google AI announcements coming on Feb 7th (Wednesday): 1. Bard to be rebranded as Gemini
2. 'Gemini Advanced' (AKA Bard Advanced) tier built on Gemini Ultra launching this week
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Major AI Breakthroughs: Gemini Ultra, Apple AI, Alibaba Model
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A wild weekend in the world of AI. -Leak reveals Gemini Ultra coming this week
-Tim Cook hints AI coming to Apple
-Alibaba model beats GPT-4 Vision
-Google released MobileDiffusion
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Why Advanced AR VR Hardware Costs Significantly More
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A gaming laptop may cost 8x the price of a Switch, a professional camera may cost 8x the price of a point and shoot. This is fine. It’s very expensive to get eyetracking, gesture recognition, environmental scanning and real time rendering to work well.
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Vision Pro Lacks Key Apps Compared to Meta Quest
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The Quest has amazing apps that allow sculpting a room in 3D. Why does the Vision Pro start without this? Why is there not even a free version of Beat Saber? Why no First Contact and no flight sim?
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Apple Vision Pro: Heavy Quest with Better Display, No Software
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Apple pretends this will replace your PC. It won’t, this is a heavy Quest with a better display and no software. This thing should be wide open, playful, full of demos and developer centric, instead of locked down and trying to sell you up on subscriptions for basic content.
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X Platform Incentives Drive User Engagement Strategy Changes
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Since X pays users for how often they show up next to ads, some users write more replies into the threads of large accounts, or try to maximize the number of replies they trigger
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Vision Pro Launch Timing and Cultural Acceptance Lessons
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The cultural dimension and timing of the Vision Pro launch is interesting: just 10 years ago someone was punched for wearing a Google Glass out in San Francisco. Sometimes being too early is worse than being late.
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Artimus AI Agent Fails to Generate Significant Hype on X
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It’s been interesting watching Artimus not getting any significant hype on X. Big deal, imo.
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Apple’s Ajax LLM Expected to Surpass GPT-5 in Usability
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Prediction: apples LLM will be as user friendly, practical and well thought as every Apple product and will push AI to an even higher, more user friendly and accessible level. I am more hyped for Ajax than GPT5 tbh