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Hey Edge Family, good morning! Big news today from Apple and Nvidia are tech giants teaming up against Nvidia?
The Breakdown
🚨 Latest Developments
Source: Gagadget
Big Takeaway: Apple is engaging in discussions with major AI firms including Alphabet, OpenAI, and Anthropic for potential integration of generative AI into iOS 18.
The partnership may result in a scenario where iPhone users select their favorite AI provider, similar to how they would choose their default web browser search engine.
Apple has reportedly struck a deal with Baidu, known as "the Google of China," to provide AI services integrated into the upcoming iOS 18 release for devices sold in the Chinese market.
The negotiations include the possibility of deeply integrating services like Google's Gemini into Apple's operating systems, while Apple's own AI engine would handle background tasks.
Will AI on your iPhone improve your user experience? and why?
Source: TSFS
Big Takeaway: Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI chip industry, making the operations of major companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Alphabet possible, with a market cap of $2.2 trillion!
A group of industry giants including Qualcomm, Google, and Intel is attempting to undermine Nvidia's dominance by targeting its CUDA software, which binds developers to Nvidia's hardware.
The company's success is also largely due to its CUDA software platform, which has been in development for than two decades and is used by over 4 million developers worldwide to create AI and other applications.
The group is part of the UXL Foundation, which is working to create an open-source suite of applications and tools using Intel's OneAPI. This project aims to make computer code execute on any machine, independent of its hardware.
🔎 Extra Insights
Noland Arbaugh, a 29-year-old quadriplegic, was the first person to receive a Neuralink brain-computer interface. He showcased the Neuralink chip by controlling his character in Mario Kart only using his mind. (Video here)
Benchmark has committed $60 million in funding to AI video startup HeyGen, valuing the company at $440 million - a sixfold increase from just four months ago. HeyGen, originally founded in China as Surreal but now based in Los Angeles, specializes in generating avatars and voices using generative AI to create videos for business clients.
Vanderbilt University will create a College of Connected Computing for computer science, AI, data science, and related subjects. A new dean will lead the college, aimed to "improve computing education through computing for all."
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