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Briefing Content:

Cathie Wood and her Ark Investment Management have been significant players in the tech investment arena. She predicts that software companies will represent the next big opportunity in the artificial intelligence sector and has made substantial investments in leading AI startups such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI through the Ark Venture Fund.

Among Ark’s portfolio, Amazon stands out as a company to watch. Amazon boasts a leading cloud computing platform, AWS, and is vigorously developing the three pillars of artificial intelligence: infrastructure, large language models, and software.

Amazon’s proprietary chips, Trainium and Inferentia, can significantly reduce the costs of AI training and inference. Additionally, Amazon Bedrock provides access to leading language models from companies like Anthropic and Meta, as well as its own Titan series models. Furthermore, Amazon has developed an internal virtual assistant named Q, which can enhance software development efficiency.

Beyond AWS, Amazon extensively employs AI technologies in its e-commerce and advertising businesses to improve operational efficiency and sales conversion rates.

Overall, Amazon is at the forefront of artificial intelligence infrastructure, software, and applications. If Cathie Wood’s predictions about AI software companies come to fruition, Amazon is poised to be one of the biggest winners.

November 27, 2024 Briefing

Topic: Demis Hassabis – A Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence

Key Information:

1. Demis Hassabis is the co-founder of Google DeepMind, and he, along with collaborator John Jumper, developed the AlphaFold AI model, which can predict protein structures in three dimensions at a very low cost in just minutes, holding significant implications for drug development.

2. In 2022, Hassabis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the development of AlphaFold, marking the formal recognition of artificial intelligence as a legitimate scientific [‘AI trends’, ‘Market analysis’]