Everything-AI just tilted upwards at an increased slope.
During March, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Keynote during NVIDIA’s annual GTC conference featured AMAZING new AI developments. (Jensen gave a two-hour keynote talk, interspersed with lots of clever and expertly-edited videos.)
Totally impressive. Totally awesome. Totally “Oh-my-God.”
BUT … if you need a synopsis (or if two hours is just too much), here’s the 16-minute version (including the two just-too-cute robots at the end – NOT the ones that you’re seeing in this screen capture here, much more adorable!):
The Overall Uptick is in Commercial Applications
Let’s start with the most obvious – Microsoft’s Copilot.
Introduced to the broad community with a 60-second commercial during the recent Superbowl playoff’s, Microsoft is positioning Copilot in a very personal, supportive role – the helper that will get you past barriers and through to your heroic performance, achieving dreams that may have seemed just-out-of-reach.
Here’s that infamous Copilot commercial (and truly, I do love it).
At the same time, we’re looking at all the “big guns” positioning AI as a major tool in multiple verticals, as this YouTube describing NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft’s investment into biotech describes.
Tech Companies Pulling Funding from EVERYTHING to Fuel the Gen-AI Binge
Here’s Amazon putting an additional $2.75 B into Anthropic, while slashing their cloud services.
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