Updating the future

Hardware or software

Here’s what we have for you today:

• Changing wallpaper

• Hardware glitch

• Power of compute

Retail giant on updating itself

Retaining customers: Usually, big retailers will do renovations to improve customer shopping experience within their stores.

Changing it up: Walmart states that in 2022-2023 more than $9 billion was used to update over 1,400 stores across the US.

Ongoing: The retailer plans to continue the renovation in 2024, along with certain stores offering new food choices.

Meta’s roadmap on technological advancement

Hardware limitations: Research in artificial general intelligence requires advanced computer chips for Meta to expand.

The direction: Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said “In terms of investment priorities, AI will be our biggest investment area in 2024, both in engineering and computer resources.”

Artificial space: With the likes of OpenAI and Google doing research and development in the same field, Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun is probably not wrong about “There is an AI war.”

The missing core to AI  

An estimation: AMD's CEO Lisa Su mentioned the market for AI chips can be as big as $45 billion in 2024 and grow to $400 billion by 2027.

Dragging behind: Massive workloads associated with AI software require a lot of computing power, and existing servers in general don't have that capacity.

These days: Current network infrastructure that relies largely on traditional central processing units are unsuited to the task of training and running AI efficiently.