Lab Podcast: Episode 157
2024 Developer Conferences are all about AI
May marks the beginning of the tech conference season, and this year, we had three key players in the AI race — OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft — all hosting their respective developer conferences within a two-week period in May. If you missed the announcements, fret not! The Lab team is here to help you keep up with the fast-evolving AI developments and competitive landscape.
In this episode, Chelsea Freitas from our Strategy team, along with Ryan Miller and Tom Trudeau from our partnerships team, took the Floor 9 mic and discussed all the highlights from the recent developer conferences, including:
- Microsoft’s hardware-centric Surface event — 0:52
- Is AI-powered Surface laptops a legitimate competitor to Apple? — 3:27
- AI-powered Recall feature for the Copliot+ PCs — 5:01
- Key announcements from Microsoft’s Build event — 9:03
- Will people call them “AI” as more AI-powered features become productized — 15:25
- The advertising implications of Copilot and Microsoft’s AI features — 16:45
- Key announcements from Google’s I/O developer event — 19:55
- The impact of Google rolling out AI search — 21:23
- Google integrating Gemini AI into its suite of popular products — 24:31
- Google’s new multimodal AI-powered creative tools — 29:03
- Last thoughts on the AI race and wrap up — 32:52
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