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Final weekend I flew to San Francisco, getting ready for a number of days of immersion into all issues Nvidia and AI. I wanted to muster all of my vitality for the corporate’s annual GTC convention, however I didn’t sleep in. I shrugged off my jet lag and headed all the way down to Monterey for 2 days to commune with sea lions and otters — name it a Pink Bull-style shot of precise nature and wildlife earlier than becoming a member of the world of synthetic intelligence and GPUs and PFLOPS.
Nvidia’s GTC convention, not surprisingly, was an absolute whirlwind. There was CEO Jensen Huang’s two-hour lengthy keynote deal with on the packed SAP Heart in San Jose, the place he was clad in a black leather-based jacket that I wrote appeared “only a bit extra rock and roll” than the plain variations he has sported over the previous few years — consistent with Nvidia’s hovering inventory efficiency that appeared to present everybody motive to social gathering. There was the gathering of the authors of ‘Consideration is All You Want,’ the paper introducing Transformers which jump-started the generative AI growth. There have been additionally lots of of different periods, panels, hearth chats, dinners and glad hours at Nvidia GTC — to not point out a stream of stories popping out of Nvidia, capped by the announcement of its newest next-generation AI chip and platform, Blackwell.
The unceasing tempo of AI trade information
However naturally, the AI beat went on as common past the convention, with the everyday unceasing tempo of AI trade information: Microsoft dropped the mic by hiring Inflection AI CEO and co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who was previously cofounder of DeepMind, to run its client AI enterprise. Apple and Google are reportedly discussing a deal to convey Google AI to iPhones. The primary ‘pretty skilled‘ AI mannequin hit the headlines. This morning, the UN adopted the primary world AI decision.
That’s the factor concerning the AI beat. The beat by no means stops. And that leads me to my very own private information: I’m leaving VentureBeat to pursue a brand new skilled alternative. The excellent news is that I’ll nonetheless be masking AI — a beat that I’ve come to deeply get pleasure from and respect over the previous two years. However it’s bittersweet: Not solely will I miss my small however mighty group at VentureBeat, however the publication gave me an incredible alternative to tackle the AI beat six months earlier than OpenAI launched ChatGPT and generative AI exploded into the general public’s consciousness. I’m proud to say that I absolutely took benefit of it — I’ve now written lots of of articles that helped inform the story of the folks and corporations behind generative AI’s emergence, evolution, alternatives and struggles.
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A fond farewell
I had lined AI earlier than becoming a member of VentureBeat, but it surely was on the highest of ranges, the broadest of broad strokes — how corporations have been utilizing conventional AI for predictive analytics or sample recognition beneath the hood for slim enterprise use circumstances.
After I arrived at VentureBeat, I instantly realized that the AI beat had become a wild trip. As I wrote in considered one of my first AI Beat columns in December 2022: “It was my first week at VentureBeat, in mid-April. OpenAI had simply launched the brand new iteration of its text-to-image generator, DALL-E 2; our lead AI author, Kyle Wiggers, had moved to TechCrunch earlier than I might choose his mind; and I used to be panicking.”
However I used to be a very good listener and desperate to be taught. And hear and be taught I did, from fellow journalists and trade analysts, startup CEOs and Large Tech execs, consultants and engineers, researchers and coverage leaders, legal professionals and professors. I proceed to lean on the consultants in trade and academia to information my work, as I try to supply what I hope is balanced and nuanced reporting round an more and more hyped-up and complicated AI panorama.
I do know that my VentureBeat colleagues — Carl Franzen, Michael Nuñez and Shubham Sharma — will hold working to do the identical in their very own AI-focused protection. I want them continued success on what I believe is the perfect beat in tech!
Thanks for studying,
Sharon
