Wed. 12/11 – Gemini 2.0

Techmeme Ride Home

Brian McCullough

News, Technology, Daily News, Tech News

4.7 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

GM shocked everybody by shutting down the Cruise robotaxi business. ChatGPT is finally on your iPhone once you update it. Could all Apple watches someday have satellite texting? And then, I guess Google wanted to pre-empt Santa Sam, because they released an absolute slew of AI products today.

Links:

GM to refocus autonomous driving development on personal vehicles (GM Investor Relations)
GM Calls It Quits on Mary Barra’s $50 Billion Robotaxi Dream (Bloomberg)
Apple’s Next Ultra Smartwatch Will Be Able to Send Texts Via Satellite (Bloomberg)
Google Rolls Out Faster Gemini AI Model to Power Agents (Bloomberg)
Google’s new Trillium AI chip delivers 4x speed and powers Gemini 2.0 (VentureBeat)
Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech (TechCrunch)
Google unveils AI coding assistant ‘Jules,’ promising autonomous bug fixes and faster development cycles (VentureBeat)
Google unveils Project Mariner: AI agents to use the web for you (TechCrunch)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Wednesday, December 11th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today. GM shocked everybody by shutting down the cruise robo-taxy business.
0:13.1	ChatGBTGPT is finally on your iPhone once you update it. Could all Apple watches someday have satellite texting?
0:19.6	And then, I guess guess Google wanted to preempt
0:22.0	Santa Sam because they released an absolute slew of AI products today.
0:26.5	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:33.2	GM says Cruise is exiting the Robotaxie business, and Cruz and GM's technical teams will be
0:39.5	combined to focus on autonomous tech for upcoming GM vehicles instead. So then there was only one,
0:46.5	and by one I basically mean Waymo, at least in the consumer self-driving space. First, here's what
0:52.2	GM itself said, quote, General Motors plans to realign
0:55.9	its autonomous driving strategy and prioritize development of advanced driver assistance systems
1:00.6	on a path to fully autonomous personal vehicles. GM will build on the progress of Supercrues,
1:06.3	the company's hands-off, eyes-on driving feature, now offered on more than 20 GM vehicle models and currently
1:11.9	logging over 10 million miles per month. GM intends to combine the majority-owned Cruise LLC and
1:17.6	GM technical teams into a single effort to advance autonomous and assisted driving, consistent with
1:22.9	GM's capital allocation priorities. GM will no longer fund Cruise's Robotaxi development work, given the
1:28.5	considerable time and resources that would be needed to scale the business, along with an
1:33.6	increasingly competitive Robotaxi market. GM is committed to delivering the best driving
1:38.8	experiences to our customers in a disciplined and capital-efficient manner, said Mary Barra,
1:45.8	chair and CEO of GM.
1:50.6	Cruise has been an early innovator in autonomy, and the deeper integration of our teams,
1:54.5	paired with GM's strong brands, scale, and manufacturing strength will help advance our vision for the future of transportation. As the largest U.S. automotive manufacturer, we're fully
1:59.1	committed to autonomous driving and excited to bring GM customers its benefits,
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