Constantly Curious #49
Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend. These are just a few brief pieces of news I stumbled across in the last few days.
You probably saw it somewhere in your feed already. Sora, by OpenAI, seems to revolutionize the way video is created via AI (If you have yet to see the examples, check out the Sora Site). If you think it will take a while before we see any impact in the film world, the sad truth is that it already has effects today. Tyler Perry, who runs a pretty big studio company called "Tyler Perry Studios" puts a $800M studio expansion on hold after seeing OpenAI's Sora.
Apple released a dedicated Sports app last week (US, Canada, and UK only). The app's promise is "following your favorite teams and leagues fast and simple." Apple is doubling down in Sports, as they rarely unveil new apps. So expect more to come from Apple in Sports.
Byd is not joking around. They want to enter the European market faster. And if you want to transport many cars to Europe, you need a lot of ship capacity. So why not build your own ships? Byd Explorer 1 reached Germany on the weekend.
If you want to track the location where it heads next, follow this link.
When it comes to AI and chip manufacturers, we all have heard of NVIDIA. But other companies are working on processors all around AI as well. Groq is making some waves for being 10-100 times faster. Faster in doing what? Faster in delivering the output. You still have a few seconds "delay" when interacting with ChatGPT or other AIs. Interacting with LLMs that run on Groq chips basically has zero latency. Why is this a big deal? It makes interactions, mainly spoken interactions, feel much more human.
The example in the video is mind blowing. More about Groq and the test run on CCN.
Dua Lipa is a fantastic artist, and on the weekend, I stumbled across an interview she did with Tim Cook three months ago. I wonder why it did not get more attention. They talk about his career, the glass ceiling, why so few CEOs in the US confirm they are gay, their sustainability efforts, and, of course, about the Apple Vision Pro.
Tim Cook is not the most charismatic speaker. However, listening to the two of them talking is still interesting. A lot of the stuff he talks about is what you would expect from a CEO who can only talk about things we already know. But it is interesting to "listen" to what he is not saying. He comes across as a polite, gentle, nice guy who has no ambitions to be a loud leader, to claim he is the best and the greatest. He seems (and looking at where Apple is today) to be someone who puts his head down and lets his actions speak louder than words.
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Jürgen