Category: AI

May 11, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Plus Announces SPAC Deal to take Self-Driving Truck Startup Public

Plus, formerly Plus AI has announced its intention to go public via Spac merger with Hennessy Capital Investment Corp in a $3.3 Billion deal.

AI, Automation, Emerging Technologies

May 6, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

C3 AI Gains Momentum and Increases Competitiveness with Model-Driven Approach to AI

Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Fred McClimans take a look at the success of C3 AI and explore why the firm is a strong competitor in both the government/defense and commercial sectors. The company’s unique and differentiated approach to the challenge of managing and gaining insights from massive amounts of enterprise data is the difference between a data-first and an AI-first approach (and a key differentiator between C3 AI and Palantir).

April 22, 2021

Fred McClimans

Futurum Tech Webcast

Breaking Down NVIDIA’s Omniverse Enterprise: Digital Twins, Virtual Reality, and Collaboration, Oh My – Futurum Tech Webcast

NVIDIA’s Omniverse Enterprise brings 3D Simulation, real-time collaboration, and a dose of storytelling to the chip-manufacturer’s portfolio. Futurum’s Fred McClimans and Ron Westfall break down NVIDIA’s Omniverse and how it has the potential to help manufacturing and design companies transform themselves into more efficient and safer organizations.

5G, AI, Automation, Customer Data Platform, Output and 3D Printing, Processors, Workplace Collaboration

April 22, 2021

Fred McClimans

Research Note

NVIDIA’s Omniverse Enterprise Platform Has the Potential to Reshape the Future of Manufacturing and Collaboration

NVIDIA’s Omniverse Enterprise platform has the potential to reshape the future of manufacturing and collaboration. Futurum’s Fred McClimans walks through the key elements of the Omniverse and explains why it might well be transformational for businesses well beyond the manufacturing sector.

AI, Automation, Output and 3D Printing, Workplace Collaboration

April 20, 2021

Daniel Newman

Six Five Webcast

GTC shows the Future of AI – The Six Five Webcast

On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech new stories that made headlines this week including, a recap of NVIDIA GTC, an overview of Zoho Qntrl launch, Microsoft’s latest acquisition, updates to the Surface Laptop 4, the VMware spinoff and big money for Globalfoundries, Groq, and Sambanova.

April 16, 2021

Ron Westfall

Research Note

NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G Ecosystem kicks off at NVIDIA GTC 2021, Designed to Turbo Boost 5G Vertical Use Cases

NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G addresses expanding 5G ecosystem demand for collaboration in offering 5G-enabled AI to industry verticals. Futurum’s Ron Westfall appraises NVIDIA’s AI-on-5G collaboration initiative and why it bolsters NVIDIA’s ability to target verticals across the mobile ecosystem by expanding 5G and AI monetization opportunities for CSPs and partners, as well as why NVIDIA needs to counter Intel more directly in the AI meets 5G realm.

5G, AI, Communications Networks, Processors, Semiconductors and Components

April 13, 2021

Daniel Newman

Futurum Tech Webcast

How Intel is Driving the Evolution of AI with Intel’s Wei Li – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with Intel VP and GM of Machine Learning Software Wei Li about the evolution of AI and how Intel is driving the industry forward.

AI, Machine Learning

April 13, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

NVIDIA GTC 21 Brings Key Innovation to Enterprise AI

At this year's NVIDIA GTC 21, the company made a plethora announcements including a new CPU for the Datacenter and updates to DGX.

April 12, 2021

Shelly Kramer

Research Note

Microsoft to Buy Nuance, a Voice Recognition AI Leader for $19.7 Billion

Microsoft will acquire Boston-based Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer explores why Nuance’s technology is a perfect fit for Microsoft’s already impressive natural language processing AI capabilities and moreover, how this move will augment the company’s focus on continuing to build its enterprise cloud business at a rapid-fire pace, in healthcare and beyond.

March 23, 2021

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

Qualcomm, AMD and Gigabyte Break the PetaOperations Per Second Barrier for AI Inferencing

Qualcomm, AMD, and Gigabyte break the PetaOperations per second barrier for AI inference — which is a lot of AI muscle. With AI increasingly becoming the driving force behind the next generation of consumer experiences, this is exciting news.