Robert Hof

Robert Hof is editor in chief of SiliconANGLE. Email: robhof@siliconangle.com

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At CES, new processors bring serious AI to the desktop

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Leave it to the CES consumer electronics show to wrest Silicon Valley from its holiday slumber, and chipmakers from Nvidia to Advanced Micro Devices to Qualcomm obliged. It was all about enabling artificial intelligence at the desktop and that’s going to require serious …

2024 was Nvidia’s year. In 2025, will it keep the AI juggernaut going?

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Enterprise tech folks seemed to take a break this week, with relatively light news, even though 2025 at large unfortunately started with literal bangs. You can get the main news this week with the headlines below, so I won’t go into detail …

OpenAI hits some potholes, as Chinese AI models get more interesting

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

This was a blessedly slow week — though less so than I thought it would be — so there were just a few highlights I’ll note in quick bullet points so you can get back to the fam too: * Agentic AI …

Databricks raises a cool $10B as the boom in AI models rages on

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

The bottomless pit of funding for all things artificial intelligence remains… bottomless. Case in point: This week Databricks raised more money than God. That’s going to be one monster IPO next year (maybe) if the economy holds up. Meanwhile, Perplexity raised $500 …

Google lands big AI punches with new agent initiatives

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Google has been very busy, making a flurry of announcements this week that placed it credibly near the top in the artificial intelligence race. It made a good one-two-three AI punch with new Gemini models, a new AI agent platform and the general …

Andy Jassy returns to AWS re:Invent as Amazon beefs up its AI chops

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference in Las Vegas dominated the news this week, as the cloud giant debuted credible new artificial intelligence models dubbed Nova, new Trainium AI chips and cloud instances, and numerous new additions to its Bedrock and Sagemaker AI application …

All eyes on Amazon Web Services ahead of an AI-heavy re:Invent

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

It’s time to get ready for Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, starting Monday in Las Vegas — the biggest cloud computing conference of the year. To prepare, check out our new Special Report: AI and the Cloud, with exclusive features, interviews and …

Nvidia comes through again, as AI dominates Microsoft Ignite and SC24

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

The king of artificial intelligence came through. Despite sky-high expectations, Nvidia Wednesday managed to outdo earnings expectations as it nearly doubled revenue from a year ago and more than doubled its profit. Investors more or less liked what CEO Jensen Huang (pictured) …

AI agents are on the march, but will they justify the endless big spending on AI?

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Agentic artificial intelligence, the notion of AI agents that can semiautonomously conduct a series of tasks without much human involvement, gained even more momentum this week, as OpenAI said its Operator agent is coming in January. David Linthicum tells us what else is …

Is generative AI hitting a ceiling? Maybe, but investors don’t care

AI By ROBERT HOF2 YEARS AGO

Of course the presidential election looms over everything, and I’ll just say one thing: Any executives or investors counting on President-elect Donald Trump keeping the vast majority of promises he has made are not as smart as they think they are. Maybe they …

Robert Hof

Latest from Robert Hof

At CES, new processors bring serious AI to the desktop

OpenAI hits some potholes, as Chinese AI models get more interesting

Databricks raises a cool $10B as the boom in AI models rages on

Google lands big AI punches with new agent initiatives

Andy Jassy returns to AWS re:Invent as Amazon beefs up its AI chops

All eyes on Amazon Web Services ahead of an AI-heavy re:Invent

Nvidia comes through again, as AI dominates Microsoft Ignite and SC24

AI agents are on the march, but will they justify the endless big spending on AI?

Is generative AI hitting a ceiling? Maybe, but investors don’t care

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