Ben Thompson
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AI inference split into human-facing and agentic workloads
Ben Thompson proposes a new framework for understanding AI inference workloads, dividing them into "answer inference" and "agentic inference." Answer inference, which requires immediate human feedback, will continue to …
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Big Tech's Q1 Earnings: AI Investments Soar Amidst Divergent Market Reactions
Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Meta, and Google are significantly increasing their capital expenditures, with Q1 spending on AI being more than triple that of the Manhattan Project. While Google's earnings were …
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AI capability outpaces enterprise adoption, creating a widening organizational gap
Enterprise AI adoption is lagging behind rapid technological advancements, creating a "Capability Absorption Gap." While new models like GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7 are powerful, and open models like DeepSeek 4 are highly effi…
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Amazon partners with OpenAI for Bedrock Managed Agents, bets on inference chips
Ben Thompson of Stratechery highlights Amazon's strategic positioning in the AI landscape, particularly its focus on inference capabilities and its new collaboration with OpenAI. This partnership involves Bedrock Manage…
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Tim Cook steps down as Apple CEO; John Ternus to succeed him
Ben Thompson of Stratechery is reflecting on the end of Tim Cook's tenure as Apple CEO, noting his long and impactful leadership. The analysis also touches on the potential implications of SpaceX's partnership with AI s…
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The Inventors of Deep Research
Google has released "Deep Research," an AI product that functions as an agent, utilizing custom-tuned frontier models like o3 and Gemini 1.5 Flash. This tool is designed to perform complex research tasks rapidly, with u…