Key metrics and recent share performance Microsoft (MSFT) is drawing investor attention after a period of mixed share performance, with the stock showing gains over the past year alongside setbacks in the past 3 months and year to date. Over the past month, Microsoft shares have a return of 5.2%, compared with an 8.6% decline over the past 3 months and an 11.1% decline year to date. On a longer vi...
Key metrics and recent share performance Microsoft (MSFT) is drawing investor attention after a period of mixed share performance, with the stock showing gains over the past year alongside setbacks in the past 3 months and year to date. Over the past month, Microsoft shares have a return of 5.2%, compared with an 8.6% decline over the past 3 months and an 11.1% decline year to date. On a longer view, the stock shows a 15.1% total return over the past year, 50.4% over 3 years, and 70.3% over 5...
No trend is capturing the attention and capital of investors quite like the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). Empowering software and systems with the tools to make autonomous, split-second decisions is a technological leap forward that can add over $15 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2030, according to PwC analysts. Heralding this charge is graphics processing unit (GPU) kingpin, Nvidia ...
No trend is capturing the attention and capital of investors quite like the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). Empowering software and systems with the tools to make autonomous, split-second decisions is a technological leap forward that can add over $15 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2030, according to PwC analysts. Heralding this charge is graphics processing unit (GPU) kingpin, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) . While Wall Street's largest publicly traded company sports several competitive advantages , it's not free of competition. However, the most logical rivals to Nvidia's data center supremacy -- Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) , Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) , and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) -- aren't its biggest risk. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
E-commerce companies can be tricky investments during times of uncertainty. If a company depends heavily on sales of discretionary items, it may see revenue falter when consumers aren't very confident about the future. And the stock may suffer when investors worry about the overall investing environment. But an e-commerce company selling essential products and services is a different story. This s...
E-commerce companies can be tricky investments during times of uncertainty. If a company depends heavily on sales of discretionary items, it may see revenue falter when consumers aren't very confident about the future. And the stock may suffer when investors worry about the overall investing environment. But an e-commerce company selling essential products and services is a different story. This sort of player can generate steady growth at any time, making it a fantastic stock to own over time. Right now, an e-commerce company that reached profitability a few years ago and offers investors great visibility falls into this category. It's particularly interesting to buy such a stock now, at a time when general uncertainties linger -- from concerns about the U.S. economy to questions about the impact of conflict in Iran. My prediction is that the following under-the-radar e-commerce stock may even be set to soar. Let's check it out. Continue reading
IQVIA Holdings (NYSE:IQV) has launched IQVIA.ai, a proprietary AI platform built in partnership with NVIDIA. The platform is designed to support new applications across life sciences operations, from research to commercial activities. IQVIA, a major player in clinical research and healthcare data services, is moving deeper into AI with IQVIA.ai, aiming to apply advanced computing to the complex de...
IQVIA Holdings (NYSE:IQV) has launched IQVIA.ai, a proprietary AI platform built in partnership with NVIDIA. The platform is designed to support new applications across life sciences operations, from research to commercial activities. IQVIA, a major player in clinical research and healthcare data services, is moving deeper into AI with IQVIA.ai, aiming to apply advanced computing to the complex demands of life sciences. For readers tracking NYSE:IQV, this development sits at the...
The tech-led surge of April has been a windfall for hardware giants, with Intel, Sandisk and Micron Technology standing out. Their shares have surged 66%, 61% and 42%, respectively since March 30, when the S&P 500 closed at its lowest level of the year.
The tech-led surge of April has been a windfall for hardware giants, with Intel, Sandisk and Micron Technology standing out. Their shares have surged 66%, 61% and 42%, respectively since March 30, when the S&P 500 closed at its lowest level of the year.
春节后,图灵奖得主杨立昆的新公司 AMI 拿了 10.3 亿美元融资,创下欧洲 AI 公司种子轮纪录; AMI 拿钱几周前,李飞飞创办的 World Labs 也宣布了 10 亿美元融资; 本周早些时候,极佳视界获得数十亿元融资,估值超百亿; 昨天,阿里巴巴发布了世界模型「快乐生蚝」HappyOyster; 今天,群核科技在港交所敲钟。 这些公司,共同竞逐同一赛道:世界模型。 杨立昆曾经放话说:「...
春节后,图灵奖得主杨立昆的新公司 AMI 拿了 10.3 亿美元融资,创下欧洲 AI 公司种子轮纪录; AMI 拿钱几周前,李飞飞创办的 World Labs 也宣布了 10 亿美元融资; 本周早些时候,极佳视界获得数十亿元融资,估值超百亿; 昨天,阿里巴巴发布了世界模型「快乐生蚝」HappyOyster; 今天,群核科技在港交所敲钟。 这些公司,共同竞逐同一赛道:世界模型。 杨立昆曾经放话说:「大语言模型在通往超级智能的路上是条死胡同。」乍一听上去否认了大语言模型的价值,但限定条件是实现 AGI,细想还是有些道理。 可以这么简单理解:ChatGPT 能写代码能做题,却搞不清物理世界的基本规律——你让它描述「苹果落地」,它说得头头是道;但你问它苹果为什么会落地,它其实是在背课文,它并不一定真正理解重力。 问题的根源在于:大语言模型的训练数据是互联网文本,而真实世界是三维的、连续的、充满物理规律的。 这就是世界模型成为科研精英接下来攻关方向的原因。 不过,大家都在谈世界模型,但没人对这几个字的含义达成一致。有视频预测的路线,有的在建 3D 场景,有的在搭仿真平台,还有直接从神经科学出发的方向…… Meta 的研究科学家 Zhuokai Zhao,在 X 账号上分享了自己认为的世界模型「五大门派」。 这五大门派,分别都是什么呢? 本文基于 Zhao 的推文,参考了多方资料展开研究和扩写,希望对于有兴趣了解世界模型的你有所帮助。 JEPA 派:杨立昆的「抽象哲学」 JEPA 全称是 Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture(联合嵌入预测架构)。它是杨立昆等人提出的一种新型 AI 架构。 简单来说,JEPA 的核心思想是:让 AI 像人类一样通过「观察」来学习世界的运行规律,而不是通过死记硬背像素或单词: AI 不用记住每片叶子的位置,它只需要知道风会吹落树叶。 在杨立昆看来,像 Sora 这种模型,本质是在「逐像素预测下一帧」。他认为这在物理上不可能——在充满随机性的世界里,你不可能精确预测每片树叶的飘落轨迹。 JEPA 的解法是:与其预测像素,不如在抽象的「表征空间」里做预测。 具体做法是先用编码器把视频转成抽象的数学表示,然后在这个空间 (latent space) 里预测「会发生什么」。比如预测「球会滚下桌子」这一更加「长期」和...
Jolie has star power as an American film-maker who gets diagnosed with breast cancer while filming in a blandly drawn Paris fashion show As this film’s producer-star, Angelina Jolie shows honesty and courage in tackling a story that so closely mirrors her own experience of having a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer. But sadly, the film itself feels specious and shallow, insisting with bla...
Jolie has star power as an American film-maker who gets diagnosed with breast cancer while filming in a blandly drawn Paris fashion show As this film’s producer-star, Angelina Jolie shows honesty and courage in tackling a story that so closely mirrors her own experience of having a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer. But sadly, the film itself feels specious and shallow, insisting with bland and weirdly humourless confidence on the glamorous importance of the fashion world in which it is set. Jolie’s character, Maxine, is an American indie film-maker just arrived in Paris, having been picked to direct the opening short movie for a super-prestigious fashion show. Her character is first-among-equals in the ensemble cast. Anyier Anei is Ada, a fledgling model from South Sudan who is to be the show’s star; Ella Rumpf plays makeup artist and would-be writer Angèle, trying to convert her experiences into an edgy fictionalised memoir; Louis Garrel smoulders and frowns as only he can as Anton, the first assistant director on Maxine’s film; and Vincent Lindon is the rumpled, caring Dr Hansen, who has the unhappy task of telling Maxine that his American colleague has passed on to him the results of her recent biopsy, and that she has breast cancer. (He sadly watches her walking away down the pavement from his high window after their consultation, while smoking a pensive cigarette.) Continue reading...
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell go on a magical quest to save their heartbroken souls. And before its return this summer, go back to the start of the super-fun franchise that gave the world the Minions Kogonada’s beguiling fable pushes two damaged people together through a fantastical meet-cute, then traces their fraught quest for peace of mind. After being introduced at a wedding, David (Colin Fa...
Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell go on a magical quest to save their heartbroken souls. And before its return this summer, go back to the start of the super-fun franchise that gave the world the Minions Kogonada’s beguiling fable pushes two damaged people together through a fantastical meet-cute, then traces their fraught quest for peace of mind. After being introduced at a wedding, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) end up in the same mysterious rental car. Nudged by a matchmaking GPS, they stop off at a series of magical doors and revisit scenes from their pasts to work out how they got to be the sad singletons they are now. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Howl’s Moving Castle, Before Sunrise – pick your own filmic reference – come to mind as the pair reassess memories of heartbreak, loss, betrayal and, occasionally, love. Saturday 18 April, 11.50am, 6pm, Sky Cinema Premiere Continue reading...
Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters Everybody knows fossil fuels cause climate breakdown, but until recently, mention of them was all but erased from the annual UN climate summits. Last year, two weeks of discussions ended without fossil fuels being mentioned in the final outcome. Frustration with those talks l...
Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters Everybody knows fossil fuels cause climate breakdown, but until recently, mention of them was all but erased from the annual UN climate summits. Last year, two weeks of discussions ended without fossil fuels being mentioned in the final outcome. Frustration with those talks led a small developing country with a large fossil fuel sector – Colombia, the largest coal and fourth biggest oil exporter in the Americas – to rewrite the rules. With co-convener the Netherlands, and support from more than 50 countries, Colombia will host a groundbreaking new global conference this month to begin the long-awaited “transition away from fossil fuels”. Continue reading...