During the Computex 2024 event in Taiwan, high-end AI chip producers NVIDIA and AMD defined the playing field in the chip wars. NVIDIA revealed its plan to release a new family of GPUs every year, starting with the barely-released Blackwell GPUs followed by an upgraded version later in the year. The Blackwell performance numbers indicate a potential significant impact of NVIDIA’s new AI superchip. AMD, lagging behind NVIDIA, intends to catch up by releasing new generations of AI GPUs annually. Claiming its new AI chip, the Instinct MI325X GPU, outperforms NVIDIA’s H200 flagship GPU, AMD remains hopeful despite the looming release of the more advanced Blackwell chips. Big Tech companies including AMD and Intel formed a consortium to develop an open AI connectivity standard, noticeably leaving out NVIDIA.
Microsoft’s Windows AI Recall, a feature that memorizes user interactions with their computers and helps retrieve lost information, sounded promising until tech security experts rang alarm bells over potential data security issues. Meanwhile, Google’s AI Overviews faced trouble with its questionable suggestions like putting glue on pizza and eating rocks.
In addition, OpenAI’s ChatGPT experienced outages, which prompted concerns about over-reliance on AI tools. This coincided with former OpenAI and Google employees publishing a letter seeking the right to disclose AI risks without backlash.
AI’s role in propagating disinformation was questioned when conservatives demanded the release of potentially incriminating audio of Joe Biden’s special counsel interview. The Justice Department refused to release the audio citing possible manipulation through AI.
In upcoming AI events, the AI for B2B Marketers Summit 2024 and the AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe will shed light on AI advancements in marketing and open-source generative AI and machine learning, respectively. Meanwhile, the European EV Thermal Management Summit 2024 will demonstrate the role of AI in thermal management in electric vehicles.
Other notable AI news include Nvidia reaching a $3 trillion market-cap on the back of the AI boom, Elon Musk shifting Nvidia’s AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI, and Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Microsoft AI participating in the secretive Bilderberg Meeting.
Looking ahead, AI is set for significant advancement with rapidly evolving GPUs. However, concerns regarding data security, AI reliability, and disclosure of AI risks remain.
