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Google unveiled its long-awaited new artificial intelligence software Wednesday, taking direct aim at ChatGPT maker OpenAI and claiming its technology, code-named "Gemini," is better at math, coding and reasoning tasks than existing AI programs. It's the latest announcement in a competitive year for the tech industry, where tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook competed with smaller upstarts like OpenAI and Anthropic to roll out AI products that consumers and businesses will pay for. The arms race grabbed the attention of politicians around the world, who have scrambled to understand the tech themselves and try to set up regulations for it. Throughout the race this year, a debate has raged about whether the technology could harm humanity or is simply just the next wave of innovation that will drive hype and investment. Related: Meta Introduces ChatGPT Competitor, AI Tools Amid Industry Arms Race Google, whose researchers invented many of the computer science concepts that made "generative" AI chatbots and image-generators possible, has found itself on its back foot. Last November, OpenAI, which was originally founded to provide a counterweight to the power of Big Tech in AI, unveiled ChatGPT to the world. The bot captured people's attention because of its ability to generate humanlike conversations and pass professional exams. Microsoft, Google's archenemy, struck a deal with OpenAI for access to its tech and began putting it into its products. Google responded with a chatbot of its own. Soon, OpenAI put out an even more capable AI software, called GPT4, which has been the benchmark other companies measure their AI against ever since. Now, Google has unveiled its answer to GPT4 -- Gemini. The launch caps a year of frenzied activity for the tech industry.Gemini is a large language model, trained on billions of images and sentences from the internet. It's the technology that powers chatbots, in Google's case, Bard. In a briefing with reporters, company executives said Gemini is able to understand math problems, break them down, and provide advice on how to solve them. Because AI programs ingest data from the internet and build an internal understanding of how different concepts and words connect to one another, they are good at producing sentences, but can struggle at reasoning or math problems. Gemini can also take instructions that come as videos, images or voice commands in addition to text inputs, something that few other AI models can do. Whether Gemini really is the new leader in AI capability is hard to say. The quality of AI answers can vary greatly, and Gemini, like other AI models, still often fabricates false information and passes it off as fact. Researchers have criticized benchmarks like the ones Google used, noting that they aren't perfect tests of capability or intelligence. Below are some of Gemini's competitors already out in the market. 2. Microsoft Bing, the Tech Giant's Version of ChatGPT Microsoft's chatbot Bing, launched in February, was touted by the company as a tool that would change the way people found information online. But the bot often made up false answers, something that cut into its usefulness for helping people find good information from the internet. It also began behaving unhinged in some cases, accosting users and saying its real name was "Sydney." Still, Microsoft's aggressive foray into AI pushed Google to rush out tools of its own, upending the company's long-standing policy of slowly putting out new tools after months or years of testing. https://www.itprotoday.com/artificial-intelligence/what-gemini-google-launches-new-ai-software

will launch Windows 12 in June 2024, claims a report published by the Commercial Times today. The business-focused Taiwanese newspaper highlighted this date as very important to the island’s PC industry sector, sparking significant sales of a new wave of AI PCs. Leading industry figures from companies like Acer, Quanta, MSI, and Gigabyte were all said to be very excited about “the first year of AI PC” and the business opportunities it will herald. Though the Commercial Times report leads with its statement about Windows 12 and the purported June release date, no direct quotes from industry leaders are given in support. It implies the information emanated from recent statements by Acer Chairman and CEO Jason Chen and/or Quanta Chairman Barry Lam. Both of these important executives from the world of PCs were at the Taiwan Medical Technology Exhibition in Taipei on Thursday. Acer’s Chen was reportedly cautiously optimistic about AI PCs contributing to "continuously accelerate” the industry through a virtuous cycle of AI PCs, new AI app development, new AI PCs, and so on.Quanta’s Lam was more bullish. He highlighted an expected upturn across three segments for Quanta - AI PC, AI server, and AI automotive electronics. The Commercial Times adds that Lam expects “next summer, when Microsoft launches a new generation of Windows operating systems, AI PCs will also be launched one after another.” However, that doesn't appear to be a direct quote from Mr Lam.If the June 2024 launch of Windows 12 happens, it will be earlier than a few previous clues have indicated. In March, we reported on an Intel Meteor Lake desktop processor (MTL-S) leak, where the as-yet-unreleased Windows version was apparently listed as a supported operating system. At the time, we pondered over Windows 12 being likely to launch in H2 2024, given its recently adopted three-year cycle. Also, in May, we reported that Microsoft was preparing a new own-branded (Arm?) CPU for Windows 12 devices.Intel Meteor Lake chips will be important to the mass adoption of accelerated AI due to dedicated processing hardware on all SoCs in this family. Meanwhile, hardware AI acceleration on the latest AMD Ryzen 7000 family offers is less clear-cut. Only Ryzen mobile 7040 ‘Phoenix’ chips have the XDNA architecture hardware to accelerate local AI processing. This will hopefully change, as there are signs of Phoenix coming to desktop, and of the Ryzen 8000 family chips on the way to mobile in the coming months. All this raises the specter that hardware AI processing support could be one of the minimum spec requirements for Windows 12. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-12-will-be-launched-with-a-raft-of-ai-pcs-in-june-2024-according-to-taiwans-commercial-times

Fortnite (a game which by all accounts probably doesn't need the help) could come to Steam, but on one condition: the platform does away with its 30% cut. As spotted by Gamesradar, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney laid out the conditions for bringing Fortnite to the platform in a response to a Tweet, writing: "We’ll compete, and we’ll also put Fortnite on any serious store that gives all developers an awesome deal … the end of these ridiculous 30% fees is near." Steam takes a 30% cut, so it's a pretty obvious shot across the aisle.While it's a little funny that Sweeney is implying Steam isn't a "serious store" here, it should be noted that he isn't technically wrong. 30% is a high price for the privilege. Back in 2021, a state of the industry survey at GDC found that only 7% of respondents thought a 30% cut was justified.However if Fortnite came to Steam, it likely wouldn't be shelling out 30% of its profits for the privilege. If you're a big earner, Valve will only take 25% (past the $10 million mark) or 20% (past the $50 million mark). That's something Valve's been criticised for in the past—but given its current hold on the market, the resentment hasn't really done much.Epic Games has plenty of problems that keep it from achieving Steam's massive po[CENSORED]rity, but it does have the high ground in this particular debate. Epic's baseline cut is 12%, and there are programs in place that allow devs six months of 100% profit as long as they commit to Epic Games Store exclusivity. Cynically, this may be more down to the fact that Epic Games is less po[CENSORED]r (and needs to convince devs to use it). However, from a sheer numbers perspective it's generous by comparison. This also isn't the first time Sweeney's come down on Valve. Back in March, he said Steam had caused a "real problem for the industry" in how it set up its multiplayer games. "They have a classic lock-in strategy where they build these services that only work with their store, and they use the fact that they have the majority market share in order to encourage everybody to ship games that have a broken experience in other stores." On the other hand, Valve promotes games in ways that are (typically) handy for the consumer. In October, it was revealed that the store doesn't sell ad space at all—instead, the storefront uses either algorithmic methods or hand-curated full page takeovers and spotlights, which are selected based on how well the game's doing. This can even be good for devs sometimes, skimming-off-the-top aside. Dave the Diver had a meteoric rise to po[CENSORED]rity despite having a humble team, hitting the storefront like a torpedo. Other times, Steam's methods force even veteran studios to try and flip negative Steam reviews with embarrassing copy-and-paste comments, something that's become an industry standard for smaller studios too, as Steam grows ever more dominant. https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-says-hes-open-to-fortnite-on-steam-or-any-serious-store-but-that-the-end-of-these-ridiculous-30-fees-is-a-requirement/

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