earnings
Dell COO: AI will move to the data
"We believe the long-term AI action is on-prem"
retail
Wendy’s to use AI to bring “surge-pricing” to burgers
"Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes"
NVIDIA
NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang sees a “giant suite” of AI robots coming soon...
"The amount of inference that we do is just off the charts now”
LLMs
PDFs, RAG, and LlamaParse: Generative AI's "Swiss Army Knife" adds a welcome new toolkit
"Building production-grade RAG remains a complex and subtle problem... unlike traditional software, every decision in the data stack directly affects the accuracy of the full LLM-powered system."
AI
Microsoft plans to rain billions on AI in Spain
AI-berian investent follows a $3.44 billion boost to Germany, and a $3.2 billion training investment in the UK.
chatbots
In “remarkable” court submission, Air Canada argued its chatbot is responsible...
"While you cannot rely on a disclaimer to avoid your consumer protection responsibilities altogether, a clearly worded and conspicuous disclaimer goes a long way to educating consumers..."
OpenAI’s “Sora” lets you create video from text: Be awed, be worried.
Company says it is releasing examples "to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon" as one expert, NVIDIA's Dr Jim Fan emphasised that "if you think OpenAI Sora is a creative toy like DALLE... think again"
AI
Google’s massively multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro preview shows a giant warming to its task
"Coming soon, we plan to introduce pricing tiers that start at the standard 128,000 context window and scale up to 1 million tokens"
McDonalds
Digital and data? We’re going large, says McDonalds’ CEO, as new CIO vows new OS, GenAI, "data highway"
"The scale of incoming information from all corners of the globe will allow McDonald’s GenAI models to better understand the broadest range of patterns and nuances"
AWS
Amazon’s “Rufus” shows it eating its own AI dogfood, as AWS closes in on $100B run rate; Q comes to Glue
"You can ask Amazon Q for Data Integration to ‘read JSON files from S3, join on ‘accountid’, and load into DynamoDB’ and in response, it will return an end-to-end data integration job that can perform that action"
AI
Red RAG to a Bull? Generative AI, data security, and toolchain maturity. An ecosystem evolves...
"Here's where people end up in RAG hell, with a bunch of unfamiliar tools and in many cases immature tools...”
AI
AI sends cloud earnings soaring, brings customers rushing for Google, Microsoft
Nadella: "We now have 53,000 Azure AI customers – over one-third are new to Azure over the past 12 months"