🧙🏼 Nvidia called into question

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Here’s what’s brewing in AI today:

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The most important news stories in AI this week

1. Nvidia’s antitrust case is escalating. There’s an ongoing antitrust investigation of Nvidia focusing on its dominance in the AI hardware space. The company has been subpoenaed (sent legally binding request for information) with the aim of shedding light on whether or not Nvidia is engaging in anti-competitive business practices, including making it difficult to switch to other suppliers and penalizing buyers that want to use other AI chips than theirs.

    

   ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Nvidia overtook Microsoft and Apple in market cap recently, but now lags slightly behind again as stocks went down yesterday after following these news. This isn’t my field – but experts say antitrust cases like this historically have little impact on business performance and Nvidia’s short-term outlook is unlikely to change.

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2. ‎Perplexity giving away Pro subscription to students. Perplexity’s latest market initiative is a new campaign in which US campuses that hit 500 signups get 1 year of Perplexity Pro – for the whole school.

• ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ With Perplexity throwing around free Pro subscriptions to everything from Uber to LinkedIn members lately, I’m wondering: is this simply a good growth strategy or is Perplexity confused which route to take between charging 20$/month for its product or simply giving it all away for free? After all, they’re planning on introducing ads in their search results in Q4, so free members could potentially soon “pay for themselves”.

   

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4. An eight-year-old shows you how to make a Harry Potter chatbot. Ricky Robinett posted a video of his daughter—who is eight—coding an AI Harry Potter chatbot at home, using the much-hyped code editor Cursor and the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model. After the video blew up on X, Ricky published a 30-minute YouTube tutorial that explains his approach to teaching, as well as a more in-depth demonstration on how to use Cursor to build a Star Wars trivia game.

• ‎ Why it matters‎ ‎ Ok, this was probably a bit scripted, but nonetheless amusing and it shows how amazingly accessible building stuff with code is becoming. Ricky’s follow-up vid on YouTube is also a great place to start if you want to try your hands at coding with Cursor yourself.

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