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The shocking chart of the day >>> ChatGPT vs Google: Who’s Burning More Energy?
AI is a power-hungry beast, and ChatGPT is no exception—it uses enough energy daily to power 17,000 US homes! In comparison, Google’s vast infrastructure handles trillions of searches but has been optimizing energy consumption for years. Source: AIM on X @Analyticsindiam
US Chips Act is fuelling boom in chip factory construction on American soil
• Major semiconductor firms have announced more than US$400bn in planned US investment • Boom means Chips Act could come with US$85bn price tag - instead of US$24bn as planned originally Source: Agathe Demarais @AgatheDemarais on X, Bloomberg
Semiconductor scare triggers a wave of profit-taking across the Nasdaq today.
$ASML, the main culprit, reports Q3 earnings tomorrow before market open. Source: Trend Spider
OUCH! ASML’s reduced sales forecast and 3Q booking miss sink semiconductor stocks.
Semiconductor index Sox down 4% with ASML down 13.4%. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg
Nancy Pelosi just-so-happened to invest $5M into Databricks a few months back...
Earlier Today >>> Amazon $AMZN and startup Databricks just signed a 5 year deal that could cut costs for businesses seeking to build their own AI capabilities. Databricks will use Amazon’s Trainium AI chips to power a service that helps companies customize an AI model or build their own - WSJ
Chinese e-commerce giant $BABA Alibaba’s international arm launched an updated version of its artificial intelligence-powered translation tool
It says, is better than products offered by Google, DeepL and ChatGPT. 👉 The product supports 15 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian. 👉 “The idea is that we want this AI tool to help the bottom line of the merchants, because if the merchants are doing well, the platform will be doing well,” Kaifu Zhang, vice president of Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group and head of the business’ artificial intelligence initiative, said https://lnkd.in/eJrhxVrM Source: CNBC
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