Big move for Amazon
Readit NewsThey know CUDA monopoly won't last forever.
I searched for how to use a massage ball (my back hurts) last week and got a giant page full of ads and ad-like sections for buying one with barely any articles at all. That is not a search engine; it's an ads engine.
I reduced my google search engine usage by 90%
Just Option+Space and get the answer with ChatGPT for MacOS.
No ads, no nonsense, just the answer.
Varloom commented on Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman axios.com/2023/11/17/micr... · Posted by u/aaronds
There goes their almost $13B investment down the drain.
Both masterminds of ChatGPT have left the company.
Feels like Nokia 2.0
Varloom commented on Apple admits third-party app stores in Europe are inevitable appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/elorant
Is allowing direct install from internet (like how most desktop applications work) also required by the DMA? Or are all developers of independent apps going to be required to publish their app to some app store?
No, there will be 3rd party App stores (approved by EU) where developers can release their Apps.
Varloom commented on Apple admits third-party app stores in Europe are inevitable appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/elorant
I for one look forward the most to seeing the equivalent of the F-Droid store coming to iOS. Either from the people behind the original F-Droid, or from some group of people with similar ideals like them.
However, I wonder if that will enable apps that corporations don’t want to exist, to exist on iOS. I.e. BitTorrent clients, alternate YouTube frontends that use yt-dlp to play YouTube videos without ads, etc.
The apps still need to be signed with a developer account right? And so Apple will still be able to deny signing certain apps / blacklist those apps when they receive complaints, right?
I'm pretty sure one of the first app stores we'll see is Meta App Store.
The deliberate delay in releasing the Threads app in the EU, without any clear reason, makes me believe that they intend to make it an exclusive offering of the Meta store.
Varloom commented on Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic reuters.com/technology/go... · Posted by u/fofoz
$6 billion dollars raised in 2 months for their series C is blowing my mind. What does Anthropic have that OpenAI or other LLM startups don't? What other companies have raised that much in a single round?
It's absolutely good, have you tried their Claude 2 AI?
Varloom commented on Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic reuters.com/technology/go... · Posted by u/fofoz
That means all the work they did on their own AI has failed. So they are buying someone else's AI.
It's crazy how even X3 is still so much behind M1 in most raw performance metrics.
Agreed, generic ARM cores are weak. The solution is to go custom like Apple did and soon Qualcomm with Oryon Cores.
Wonder if the increasing backwards compatibility became too much to bear, but IMO it never really tried to tread new grounds for risk of losing a comfortable position.
Majority of it's revenue goes to Taiwan for TSMC as margins.
Having Intel fab, will cut the middle man, and revenue will skyrocket, all while no money leaves the USA.