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Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu said he will step down as CEO and become Chief Scientist at the company "responsible for deep R&D initiatives."
Prices for access to generative AI models and features could tank in 2025 amid cheaper foundational models, open source advances and vendors becoming realistic about what customers will actually pay. Welcome to the only thing in your life that'll be deflationary--generative AI.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company spend $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditures largely focused on artificial intelligence.
Verizon outlined Verizon AI Connect in a strategy designed to put its network, compute and edge computing infrastructure in the middle of artificial intelligence inferencing workloads.
OpenAI launched Operator, an AI agent that can use go to the web and perform tasks such as booking vacations, shopping for groceries and making restaurant reservations.
Hostaway CEO Marcus Rader said the best way to serve an industry with software is to come to it completely as a novice.
DigitalOcean, a cloud provider focused on AI workloads, launched its GenAI Platform, which compiles third party foundational models to enable developers to build AI agents quickly.
Microsoft said that Stargate includes a new agreement that "changes exclusivity on new capacity." Looks like Oracle Cloud is the winner.
