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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Then in 2006 Nvidia introduced a new GPU architecture, CUDA, that could be programmed directly in C to accelerate mathematical processing, simplifying its use in parallel computing. It’s also in the service business, operating its own cloud infrastructure for pharmaceutical firms, manufacturing, and others.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

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Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. That difference in price (and its impact on pharmaceutical company profits) shows the extent of the rent. I think not.

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Generative AI in Healthcare

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Even taking into account the buzz around ChatGPT, companies feel a necessity to keep the market pace as well as introduce something extra for their customers. With advancements driven by research breakthroughs, increased computing power, larger datasets, and innovative model architectures, it introduced sophisticated generative AI models.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

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In mid-November, OpenAI’s board fired the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, the guy who put ChatGPT on the map and ushered in a new era of corporate AI deployments. An enterprise that bet its future on ChatGPT would be in serious trouble if the tool disappeared and all of OpenAI’s APIs suddenly stopped working. Do they have a moat?

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Technology Trends for 2024

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While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. ChatGPT changed the industry, if not the world. Our data shows that most topics in software architecture and design are down year-over-year.

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CIO Bhavani Amirthalingam on driving change in the AI era

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Accelerated computing has led to the creation and scaling of large language models that have now democratized AI, finding ChatGPT a place in the dictionary. It’s crucial to design a sustainable architecture with the end goal in mind, ensuring scalability aligns with business objectives.