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Benedict Evans. Stepping back from the noise, I try to work out what’s really happening, what matters, and what it might mean. A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything.
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Benedict Evans Recent essays Featured. 19 Aug 2024. Competing in search. 19 Aug 2024. A quarter century after ‘don't be evil’ a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter? 19 Aug 2024. 9 Jul 2024. The AI summer. 9 Jul 2024. Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. ...
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. For 2024, ‘AI, and everything else’. In the last few years, I've given presentations for companies including Alphabet, Amazon, AT&T, Axa, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Hitachi, L’Oréal, LVMH, Nasdaq, Swiss Re, Warner Media, Verizon and ...
Jul 2, 2023 · Benedict Evans AI and the automation of work Pretty much everyone in tech agrees that generative AI, Large Language Models and ChatGPT are a generational change in what we can do with software, and in what we can automate with software.
About & Contact — Benedict Evans. What matters in tech? What’s going on, what might it mean, and what will happen next? I’ve spent 20 years analysing mobile, media and technology, and worked in equity research, strategy, consulting and venture capital. I’m now an independent analyst.
Jun 15, 2023 · Metaverse ( last year) has become an entirely meaningless word - you cannot know what someone else means when they say it. But when Mark Zuckerberg talks about it, it sounds like a - a new environment somehow different from ‘the internet.’. Meta talks about what it will be ‘like’ in the ‘metaverse.’.
Jul 9, 2024 · The AI summer — Benedict Evans. Hundreds of millions of people have tried ChatGPT, but most of them haven’t been back. Every big company has done a pilot, but far fewer are in deployment. Some of this is just a matter of time. But LLMs might also be a trap: they look like products and they look magic, but they aren’t.
Apr 19, 2024 · What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thousands of new companies around that? This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘ ’, published in 1982.
Jun 20, 2024 · Apple intelligence and AI maximalism — Benedict Evans. Apple has showed a bunch of cool ideas for generative AI, but much more, it is pointing to most of the big questions and proposing a different answer - that LLMs are commodity infrastructure, not platforms or products. No-one outside Apple has really used any Apple Intelligence features ...
