danox

Who knows?

https://www.fortuneindia.com/technology/exclusive-perplexity-shuts-down-apple-acquisition-chatter-says-no-talks-underway/124260

And what is it? Other than the fact someone (a trusty venture capitalist) says they are worth 14 billion dollars are they a fancy web search engine? Once again if bought by Apple who’s staying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplexity_AI Wikipedia says that they are a fancy web search engine which uses a variety of AI models (five) of them in fact if you’re running behind, does that sound like an easy road to balance five models at once, and get what you need done within a year or two?

Highly unlikely 2025 is almost over Perplexity even if you finalized the deal in October/November, after you buy them, you’ll have to have many someone’s go through every single thing that they’ve done up until this point in even greater detail and to top it off most of the people at Perplexity are going to quit so what are you getting? That’ll take a good six months maybe even a year and it won’t help you at least not soon enough in fact, they won’t even help you at all, but you would’ve spent $14 billion dollars down the drain, but you can tell Wall Street that you’re doing something.

Sam at OpenAI did not get a check from Apple for a reason because there are no shortcuts in AI just like there are no shortcuts in designing operating systems and designing cpu/gpu chips particularly if you choose unwisely. Apples solution/path is on the edge. Most of their competition is working on a solution that phones home.


https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-on-how-apples-new-speech-apis-outpace-whisper-for-lightning-fast-transcription/

Bring on M5 M6 and beyond…..Knock Nvidia off of its perch.

I assume that the hardware used is the current Apple Silicon hardware, which means that when Apple releases the next iPhone and the next MacBook Pro in the fall of 2025, the software will/should be even faster. Very good news.

And there appears to be some more good news and you begin to understand why Apple is not paying OpenAI one red cent.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google want the government to build a moat around AI to enshrine their position I thought they were ahead. Why do they need help? If you are ahead of the curve in your field, you don’t need the help of the government.