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Continue ReadingHere are the biggest analyst moves in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) for this week. Bank of America analysts reflected on the news that Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is currently conducting trials of over 20 new GenAI features, focusing on search, chat, and messaging functionalities. The upcoming features are anticipated to enhance Meta's AI personal assistant and text-to-image generation capabilities, making them more seamlessly integrated into the Meta ecosystem...
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Continue ReadingKeeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week, Google flooded the channels with announcements around Gemini, its new flagship multimodal AI model. Turns out it's not as impressive as the company initially made it out to be -- or, rather, the "lite" version of the model (Gemini Pro) Goog...
Continue ReadingArtificial intelligence (AI) is one of the market's hottest trends right now, and getting your portfolio aligned to take advantage of this trend for 2024 is paramount before 2023 arrives. While the market is full of exciting AI investments, there are three that I think stand out above the rest. Alphabet and Microsoft are the most alike, as their respective cloud computing offerings (Alphabet's Google Cloud and Microsoft's Azure) are vital in AI proliferation...
Continue ReadingThe external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says.....
Continue ReadingAt a study session of the Politburo five years ago, President Xi Jinping said artificial intelligence (AI) was a strategic priority and that China must occupy the "commanding heights" in core AI systems to achieve global technology supremacy. The Chinese leader's rhetoric was backed by a strong performance on the field. The country was competitive with the US from the 2010s onwards, outperforming in some areas such as facial recognition. In 2017, China published its "Next Generation Artificial i...
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Continue ReadingAlphabet has underperformed its peers YTD due to increased competition and the fear of losing market share. Click here to read my analysis of GOOG stock...
Continue ReadingWhite Brook Capital Partners, an investment management firm, released its third quarter 2023 investor letter, a copy of which can be downloaded here. White Brook Capital Partners maintains its outperformance against the S&P Midcap 400 year to date, boasting a 6.49% increase compared to the index’s 4.28% gain. However, it falls short of the S&P […]...
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