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Re:Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to genera... by Spivak on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:28PM (#39529401)
MS got the score of the century. They're selling the shovels and access to the mines.
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Re:Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to genera... by mcphage on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:52PM (#39530589)
This is true, but most big AI companies are the ones selling shovels, and tons of money is pouring into the field because everyone wants to get in on shovel selling... but I don't know if it's yet determined that there are enough motivated shovel buyers.
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Re:Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to genera... by TeaBrain on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @05:54PM (#39531321)
The GPUs that Nvidia is selling to Microsoft, Google, Meta and the venture-backed AI bandwagon are arguably the shovels.
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Re:Apple cancels work on electric car, shifts team to genera... by chucke1992 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @06:00PM (#39531391)
MSFT's main benefit their chokehold on corporate software. They can provide high priced software, deals etc. due to sheer force of Office and Azure. Even Amazon does not have that.
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