Deloitte & Goldman Sachs Endorse AI

The Stargate Project: America’s - and AI’s - Future, DeepSeek’s R1 Challenges OpenAI, AI Apps: Now a Billion Dollar Industry, AI Judges Make Debut in Sports (plus an AI comic!)

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Brad Reynolds
February 05, 2025

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The Stargate Project: America’s - and AI’s Future
CBS News

  • Stargate invests $500 billion in U.S. AI infrastructure over four years.

  • Project may create hundreds of thousands of American jobs.

  • Key partners include SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX.

  • Initial infrastructure buildout starts in Texas, with further sites planned nationwide..

  • DeepSeek's R1 model outperforms OpenAI's o1 on key AI benchmarks.

  • Available open-source and commercially under an MIT license via Hugging Face.

  • R1's reliability is high, though responses align with China's regulatory values.

  • Distilled versions of R1 work on varied hardware, including laptops..

  • AI apps reached $1.1 billion in consumer spending in 2024, up over 200%.

  • If growth continues, AI apps could be top 10 in consumer spending soon.

  • ChatGPT hit 50 million monthly users, indicating strong AI app demand.

  • AI apps were used for 7.7 billion hours and downloaded 17 billion times.. 

  • Goldman Sachs launches AI assistant, helping with emails and code translation.

  • AI aims to embody employee traits, enhancing firm-specific identity and values.

  • 10k+ Goldman employees already use the AI assistant, with full rollout planned.

  • AI enhances productivity, but may disrupt roles in banking's back/middle offices..

  • Deloitte's 2024 year-end Generative AI report offers quarterly reports for 2024.

  • It found that nearly 75% of firms say they’ve met or exceeded their goals for ROI.

  • 45% are building multi-agent systems, where different agents collaborate on complicated tasks..

  • AI judging debuts in X Games’ snowboarding event for the first time.

  • Developed with Google, aiming to improve objectivity in judged sports.

  • AI trained on snowboarding content; scores to compare with human judges.

  • CEO Jeremy Bloom sees AI judging expanding into other sports competitions..

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Sincerely,
Brad

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