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- Nvidia CEO and co-founder resigns as scandal deepens.
- How Jev’s rivals are setting themselves apart
- Forget tokenmaxxing: another look at our article on measuring AI productivity gains
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Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang has resigned after 33 years at the helm, marking a stunning new twist in the deepening scandal.
CFO Colette Kress will take over as interim CEO while retaining her finance role. Nvidia’s board has begun searching for a permanent successor, considering both internal and external candidates.
Nvidia was never just hype. But Huang’s departure is a reminder that even the biggest winners of the AI boom aren’t untouchable.
Now, onto a very different AI race.
Remember when you needed an invite to listen to strangers talk on the internet?
That was Clubhouse in early 2021. By mid-year, Twitter, Facebook, and Spotify had rolled out their own live audio features. By the end of the year, Clubhouse downloads had fallen sharply.
I thought of Clubhouse while reporting on Jev, an AI decision model from US startup TypeSafe. Jev gives developers a fast and cheap way to get AI to pick from a list of answers. Within weeks of its launch, though, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Cloudflare introduced their own versions of the model, and many smaller players did, too.
In today’s top story, I explore how rivals moved so quickly into this space and what sets them apart beyond price. OpenAI, for instance, has integrated its Decisions API into voice tools to help customer support agents decide when to transfer callers to humans.
Unlike Clubhouse, decision models solve a practical problem: helping businesses handle routine tasks faster and more cheaply than large language models.
I can see that demand outlasting the hype. What’s less clear is what will keep developers loyal to any one provider.
Glenn Kaonang, journalist
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