Welcome to episode 246 of The CloudPod podcast, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week we’re discussion localllm and just why they’ve saddled us all with that name, saying goodbye to Bard and hello to Gemini Pro, and discussing the pros and cons of helping skynet to eradicate us all. All that and more cloud and AI news, now available for your listening nightmares.
Oracle says hold my beer on Africa
The Cloud Pod Thinks the LLM Maturity Model has More Maturing To Do
There is a Finch Windows Canary in Fargate
New LLM Nightmares
The Cloud Pod Will Never Type localllm Correctly
It’s Earnings Time!
01:42 Microsoft issues light guidance even as Azure growth drives earnings beat
02:46 Justin- “I don’t think the count the Open AI customers, do you? Because there’s way more people that have Open AI usage than 53,000. So I think this is legitimately Azure AI – which is Open AI under the hood – but specifically paying for that subscription.”
04:19 Alphabet shares slide on disappointing Google ad revenue
04:51 Justin- “…which is interesting, because you would expect that they’d have similar growth being tied to Bard and Gemini to be close to what Microsoft is doing.”
12:02 Amazon reports better-than-expected results as revenue jumps 14%
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