Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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Google finally joins the gen AI race in earnest, and now it’s really wide open

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

With its new AI model Gemini, Google this week cracked open the generative AI race even wider — as we said would happen following that pre-Thanksgiving OpenAI debacle. Gemini, which Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised way back in May at …

Amazon bolsters its cloud with generative AI as it embraces frugality

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Not for the first time, this week was all about the quickening battle for leadership in artificial intelligence, especially the generative variety. That was abundantly clear at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, which SiliconANGLE and its livestreaming …

OpenAI drama finally ends but proves the battle for AI supremacy remains wide open

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

What else mattered this week besides OpenAI? Well, plenty, but nothing to match the drama as CEO Sam Altman first gets fired, then rehired within days as nearly the entirely company revolts against the erstwhile board, to great joy among the troops …

Microsoft hires Sam Altman and others for new AI research group – maybe! – as most OpenAI staff threaten to leave

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Updated with continuing uncertainty: The unprecedented drama at OpenAI continues today as 49% investor Microsoft Corp. put its big feet down and hired former Chief Executive Sam Altman and co-founder and former President Greg Brockman for a new artificial intelligence research group …

Generative AI gets the Microsoft treatment, supercomputers get the AI treatment – and Sam Altman gets the boot

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Microsoft is now the Copilot company, Chief Executive Satya Nadella declared this week at the company’s Ignite conference, not only spreading generative AI across its products but also announcing its first AI processor designs. The flurry of news at Ignite was just …

Big talk and big bucks in generative AI, but is it peaking?

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

The battle of the generative artificial intelligence models grew even more fierce this week, with little sign of abating. We saw new OpenAI capabilities — which in turn suggest a whole new enterprise software market and even app stores — along with Elon …

AI regulation arrives, SBF goes down and gen AI lifts earnings outlooks

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

That was quick: It’s a wrap for Sam Bankman-Fried, whose jury took only about four hours to decide he’s guilty on all counts. Now, pending an appeal, the main question is how long he’ll be behind bars. SBF’s conviction was the capper …

Generative AI shows up everywhere but in the earnings numbers. Supercloud 4 digs into where it’s going next

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

For all the massive activity and excitement around generative artificial intelligence, you had to squint to see the impact on the earnings results of the big cloud and other tech companies this past week. At Supercloud 4, our two-day free editorial event, …

AI has a global warming problem, a VC’s manifesto misses the mark — and don’t miss Supercloud 4

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

Generative artificial intelligence may be the next big thing, but it’s also the next big energy hog — and that’s a problem for all those data centers training and running AI models: It’s not clear how they’re going to withstand all the …

War in Israel moves to the cybersecurity front and reality starts to hit generative AI

AI By ROBERT HOF3 YEARS AGO

It was difficult this week to focus on much more than the war in Israel, given the horrific attacks and deadly counteroffensive, but with a heavy heart, we plod ahead on reporting what’s happening in the enterprise. One of those developments is …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

Google finally joins the gen AI race in earnest, and now it’s really wide open

Amazon bolsters its cloud with generative AI as it embraces frugality

OpenAI drama finally ends but proves the battle for AI supremacy remains wide open

Microsoft hires Sam Altman and others for new AI research group – maybe! – as most OpenAI staff threaten to leave

Generative AI gets the Microsoft treatment, supercomputers get the AI treatment – and Sam Altman gets the boot

AI regulation arrives, SBF goes down and gen AI lifts earnings outlooks

Generative AI shows up everywhere but in the earnings numbers. Supercloud 4 digs into where it’s going next

AI has a global warming problem, a VC’s manifesto misses the mark — and don’t miss Supercloud 4

War in Israel moves to the cybersecurity front and reality starts to hit generative AI

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