Generative artificial intelligence is driving a resurgence in cloud spending, as earnings results from Amazon Web Services and Google this week both saw upside from forecasts.
Spending to keep up with AI demand continues to be expensive.
Money keeps pouring into AI companies such as Elon Musk’s xAI and Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra Technologies.
New AI models and services keep getting churned out from OpenAI, Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Salesforce and everyone else you can think of, with no slowdown in sight.
Intel got a rare boost by reporting a more positive quarter and outlook than expected and its stock rose 10%.
Indeed, next week is another big week for earnings reports.
One reality, noted Jordan Tigani, co-founder and CEO of MotherDuck, which makes a cloud analytics database, is that “AI people and database people tend not to like each other very much.
At Constellation Research’s CCE 2024 conference, the firm’s analysts weighed in on the next impacts of AI.
AI adviser Cassie Kozyrkov had the quote of the week, on the difference between machine learning and AI: “If it’s written in Python, it’s probably machine learning. If it’s in a PowerPoint, it’s AI.”
Matt Wood, Amazon’s high-profile former vice president of artificial intelligence, is now PricewaterhouseCoopers’ first commercial technology and innovation officer.