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16 Oct 2024

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

15 Oct 2024

Never bet against Nvidia???

The chip maker is riding an "insane" AI wave and hit a fresh ATH yesterday. Now worth ~$3.4tn, it has overtaken Microsoft again and is the 2nd largest company in the world in terms of market capitalization. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

26 Sep 2024

A headline from 1966.

Some school teachers are now protesting against the use of AI... Human being always struggle with innovation. Source: Jon Erlichman on X

24 Sep 2024

Qualcomm wants to buy Intel. Would that be enough to overtake Nvidia?

Source: FastCompany

24 Sep 2024

Anthropic, OpenAI’s largest startup competitor, has started talking to investors about raising capital in a deal that could value the startup at $30 billion to $40 billion

roughly doubling its valuation from a funding that closed early this year, according to an existing investor who spoke to company leaders. Source: www.theinformation.com https://lnkd.in/eQ9ZKAFC

18 Sep 2024

BlackRock is preparing to launch a more than $30bn artificial intelligence investment fund

With technology giant Microsoft to build data centres and energy projects to meet growing demands stemming from AI, people briefed about the matter said https://on.ft.com/3Bh2aGG Source: FT

18 Sep 2024

BofA: “today the average EPS growth rate among AI ETF constituents has fallen from 18% to just 5%, below the S&P 500.”

Source: Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @MikeZaccardi via @dailychartbook

13 Sep 2024

The old playbook is back thus far this week. Semis and AI leading back bid, growth outperforming.

Source: RBC, Bloomberg

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