Apple aims to tell an AI story without AI bills
After the company reported quarterly earnings on Thursday, Cook insisted that Apple will have concrete details about its plans for AI to talk about very soon.
After the company reported quarterly earnings on Thursday, Cook insisted that Apple will have concrete details about its plans for AI to talk about very soon.
Jeff Denworth explains that as AI models, like generative AI, become more advanced, they require tremendous amounts of data for training, which is both a technological and financial challenge.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced to build a new cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in Thailand, provide AI skilling opportunities for more than 100,000 people, and support the nation's growing developer community.
Analysts on average see iPhone sales, which account for about half of Apple's revenue, falling 10.4% in the first three months of 2024, according to LSEG. That drop would be the steepest in more than three years.
The investment, the largest in Microsoft's 32-year history in Malaysia, will include building cloud and AI infrastructure, creating AI-skilling opportunities for 200,000 people, and supporting the country's developers, the company said.
The world's biggest maker of memory chips and TVs said operating profit rose to 6.6 trillion won ($4.8 billion) in January-March, up from 640 billion won a year earlier. That was in line with Samsung's own estimate of 6.6 trillion won flagged earlier this month, its highest operating profit since the third quarter of 2022.
The Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder informed in a post on 'X'- "Tesla will spend around $10B this year in combined training and inference AI, the latter being primarily in car. Any company not spending at this level, and doing so efficiently, cannot compete".
The report was released during the World Economic Forum Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development which convenes key global stakeholders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 28-29 April, to enable comprehensive dialogue on global cooperation, sustainable growth and promoting a global energy transition that underpins sustainable development.
"Microsoft calls on external partners, whereas Google relies more on its in-house teams," said Goldman.
In an exclusive interview to ETCIO, Andrew Ng, Founder & CEO, Landing AI, talks about large language models, large computer vision models, and most importantly how tech can radically impact business, education and the future of mankind.
During Meta's earnings conference call, analysts peppered CEO Mark Zuckerberg with questions about how the company was pacing its AI investments. One analyst asked whether Meta was spending more because it saw an even bigger opportunity from AI.