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The Cloudcast (@cloudcastpod) is the industry's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, and the place where Cloud meets AI. Co-hosts Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) & Brian Gracely (@bgracely) speak with technology and business leaders that are shaping the future of business. Topics will include Cloud Computing | AI | AGI | ChatGPT | Open Source | AWS | Azure | GCP | Platform Engineering | DevOps | Big Data | ML | Security | Kubernetes | AppDev | SaaS | PaaS .
The Cloudcast
The Craziest Year (so far) comes to a close
A lot changed in the world of Cloud and AI this year. And then it changed some more, and some more, and so more. The only constant was change.
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SHOW NOTES
IT WAS AN INTERESTING YEAR IN CLOUD AND AI TECHNOLOGY
- AI has become a mainstream technology, political and social talking point
- AI went through 7yrs of news cycles in 1 yr
- DeepSeek - Maybe NVIDIA chips aren’t needed?
- NVIDIA acquihired Grok and their technology
- Maybe AWS’ lead in the cloud is now in question
- Google got their act together with GenAI, after inventing the technology in 2017
- Microsoft and OpenAI sort of broke up, or at least they are seeing other people
- OpenAI forecasts 100x their current revenue in future computing needs
- The US Gov’t either bailed out, or socialized Intel
- Bitcoin - 94k, up to 125k, down to 84k
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