https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral Mistral has unveiled Voxtral, an exciting new AI audio model that positions itself as a strong open-source competitor to Whisper, the reigning champion of speech recognition. With claims of…
OpenAI’s Crown Is Under Siege — And the AI Race Is Just Getting Started
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its…
Profit Over Service: The Subscription Model’s Dilemma
https://www.creativebloq.com/photography/photo-editing-software/after-25-loyal-years-adobes-price-hike-has-forced-me-to-say-goodbye We have become accustomed to the reality of rising costs. However, we often fail to consider the broader implications of these price increases, especially when it comes to subscription…
Forget ‘Seeing is Believing’: Check out these AI-Generated Video Clips
https://bgr.com/tech/17-insane-veo-3-ai-videos-thatll-stop-you-from-trusting-anything-you-see-online/
Been 6 years since Jony Ive left Apple, is io his second coming?
https://openai.com/sam-and-jony Jony Ive made a lot of money since leaving Apple, more than what he could have made at Apple. $6.5B is a great deal for him, the new entity…
Money is our greatest invention. It will continue to evolve; Crypto and AI will play a big part.
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it…
Don’t take #AI too seriously, certainly not yet. It doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful or fun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27zwp7jpxo Not saying that BBC shouldn’t care about the AI summary showing false “information”. In the ideal world, we want all automated summaries to be accurate too, to take it…
#AI R&D costs are far too high for startups. Discuss.
https://qz.com/google-spend-100-billion-ai-development-deepmind-ceo-1851412787 Google, Microsoft and others are spending big money on AI. Can startups still compete? Or are they better off waiting for the big boys to train these models and…
#AppleVisionPro is good, but will take years to build up the ecosystem.
Found time to play with Apple Vision Pro in the office yesterday. Is it too hyped up? Expected too much? How did it compare with my Pico4 Pro? Very well…
Brands should continue to invest in their own tech. Not to fully rely on big platforms. X included.
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/how-bespoke-e-commerce-solutions-can-future-proof-brands-for-a-decade-in-flux