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A More Human Way Into Vibe Coding—and Chris Pirillo Is Testing It Live
When Chris Pirillo showed his 11-year-old daughter Google Gemini one day, it didn’t take her long to have it code a game to help her learn multiplication. “She wasn’t weighed down with the idea that she couldn’t do it. She just assumed she could—and she did. She identified her problem, and she solved it,” he […]
SAP Challenges Value of ‘Best-of-Breed’ Apps in Enterprise AI
When executive Muhammad Alam stepped onto the Fountainbleau theatre stage in Las Vegas earlier this month to give his opening keynote talk at SAP Connect, I half-expected to witness a spectacle. After all, I’m at a tech conference where AI dominates the agenda, so why wouldn’t there be a flashy performance, brimming with pagentry, to […]
The Social Llama
IN THIS ISSUE: Meta hosts its first-ever event around its Llama model, launching a standalone app to take on Microsoft’s Copilot and ChatGPT. The company also plans to soon open its LLM up to developers via an API. But can Meta’s momentum match its ambition? The Prompt At Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon developer conference, the company […]
CES 2025: Now With More AI
IN THIS ISSUE: Welcome to the final newsletter of 2024. Thank you for subscribing to and reading “The AI Economy.” Next month marks one year since I launched this publication, and I appreciate the reception it has received. In the coming year, expect more stories about AI’s impact on business, work, technology, and society. Regarding […]
Microsoft Build 2024: Copilot, Copilot, Copilot
Satya Nadella had his “developers” moment. Microsoft held its annual Build developer conference in downtown Seattle, Washington this week. On the heels of events by OpenAI and Google, what would the Windows maker bring to the table? Quite a bit, as it turns out. Microsoft’s chief executive came out in full force to hype up […]
For Google, It’s Gemini Everything Everywhere All At Once
It was supposed to be Google’s week to showcase its latest AI innovations. Then, OpenAI said, “Hold my beer,” and released a significant update to GPT-4 that can handle text, speech and video. And the new model is free to use! While it took some of the wind out of Google’s sail on the eve […]
The AI Economy: The Community Helping Marketers Master AI
Losing sleep over artificial intelligence? Is your boss asking how the company will use AI? Unsure how your audience will respond? Fearful of algorithms and data safety? If you’re a marketer in distress, don’t worry! The AI Marketers Guild might be your digital guardian angel. Plus, discover the new Seattle conference on April 29 designed […]
What Is Dent: AI, the Seattle Conference Promising Practical AI Business Strategies?
Steve Broback has a penchant for bringing people together around pivotal technology moments. In the 1990s, he organized a conference largely focused on the World Wide Web, covering topics like web advertising, web marketing, and web design. He also convened a gathering around Photoshop, Javascript, and even Twitter. “We’ve tried to have our finger on […]