EMERGENCY POD: Jason Calcanis on SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) implosion and what impacted founders should do. FDIC has taken control of SVB. Uninsured depositors will only get IOU which gets money after liquidation. Insured depositors only get covered up to $250,000. A funded startup would usually have over $1 million of funding. It is generally …
Microsoft Germany employees said that GPT-4 is coming next week: at an approximately one-hour hybrid information event entitled ” AI in Focus – Digital Kickoff ” on 9 March 2023. Four Microsoft Germany employees presented Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering in detail. “We …
ChatGPT technology has helped Microsoft Bing to cross 100 million Daily Active Users. They remain a small, low, single digit share player versus Google. However, this about double where Bing was at before using OpenAI chat technology. After 30 days, a few stats on new Bing engagement: – 45M total chats – 1/3 of daily …
Elon Musk is live at the Morgan Stanley conference providing an update on Twitter. He describing how Twitter has been made better for advertisers and its users. Elon Musk says he will make Twitter into the biggest Financial institution in the world using payments and other financial services by becoming an Everything App. Twitter is …
Julien Villa-Massone has a table with graphics and specifications for the various versions of the Starlink satellite. He has detailed analysis of Starlink and using Starlink to enhance Tesla communications and technology. Julien identified that glass antennas exist and can be used on top of Tesla and other vehicles for mobile communication via Starlink. This …
Chamath says that venture capitalist investors are looking for companies that can collect unique datasets. Proprietary unique datasets could be critical to having superior performance for ChatGPT like Generative AI. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …
Microsoft Bing has about 3.2% of the overall global search engine market but has 8-9% of the desktop search market. It took Google about two years after getting to scale to pass Yahoo in 2002 as the top search engine. Microsoft Bing already has some global scale. It will take about 500% growth on the …
Microsoft is bringing into the browser. The AI will summarize any pdf document (including scientific papers) and integrate data from current web and use it to create content. Merging in the AI has created the largest jump in search relevance in two decades. AI will supercharge search and boost content creation. Brian WangBrian Wang is …
Peter Zeihan made a series of mostly unsupported and false claims about electric vehicles while being interviewed on the Joe Rogan show. James Stephenson goes through all of the over forty aspects of what Peter Zeihan said. Here is the video and I have below screen shots of the thorough take down of each unsupported …
Elon Musk was at the All-in-Podcast. The highlights: Elon says Twitter’s cost structure has been improved by 3 or 4 times. This would seem to mean that the annual burn rate has gone from $3.5 billion per year to less than $1 billion per year. He previously had said on a Twitter space that Twitter …
Elon stands by his prediction that long term, Tesla $TSLA will be the most valuable company in the world. I’m actually fairly confident that will be the case.” – @elonmusk Elon declared he would not sell any more Tesla stock in 2023 and likely not until 2025. Elon expects 2023 could be as bad as …
