00:00 Josh Lipton

Hello and welcome to Ask Your For a Trend. I'm Josh Lipton and for the next half hour, we are breaking down the trends of today that will move stocks tomorrow. There's a lot to keep track of, so we're focusing on what you need to know to get ahead of the curve. AI is still alive and well on Wall Street, but the landscape keeps changing as various players enter the AI arena. For more on what you need to know about the biggest names in the game, let's get to Yahoo Finance's Tech editor, and that would be Dan Howley. Dan.

00:35 Dan Howley

That's right, Josh. We're just going to break down some of the, the bigger names. So to start things off, obviously the 800 pound gorilla, that's OpenAI, and we're going to put Microsoft in there together with them since they have teamed up. Obviously, it's been a very lucrative relationship between the two. Uh, OpenAI has ChatGPT kind of kicked off the entire generative AI explosion. Uh, Microsoft has been using that technology in its co-pilot and and its Azure platform. But more recently, the two were at loggerheads. They can't come to an agreement over how OpenAI should restructure its own business. And so that is leading to some reports that Microsoft may be, you know, trying to work on its own generative AI offerings while OpenAI may be trying to work on its own productivity suites. But after OpenAI and Microsoft, there's obviously Google. Uh, we have their Gemini service. It's similar to what you would get out of ChatGPT. Uh, they offer document creation. Uh, you can upload files, you can create images, things along those lines, but it also has the power of Google behind it. You might have probably used Gemini if you've used basically any Google product at this point because it's across the entire company's ecosystem, whether that's through YouTube, mail, docs, even your regular Google search, when you see AI overviews, that's powered by Gemini. Then after that, we have obviously Meta. Uh, Mark Zuckerberg is trying to recadjigger the company once again after the metaverse fiasco that didn't really go anywhere except for give us some weird looking legless avatars. Uh, now he's going all in on AI, and they seem to be doing relatively well here. Uh, they obviously have Meta AI. It's available through Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The problem though is their most recent model called Lama for Behemoth seems to be delayed, and there's no end in sight for when that delay will end. And so now, Meta is going out and scooping up talent from other AI companies, whether that's the CEO of Scale AI, Alexander Wang. Uh, we also had Nat Friedman, the former GitHub CEO, uh and Safe Super Intelligence, their CEO, Daniel Gross. They've all been packed up. Uh, Sam Altman at OpenAI said Meta is trying to offer some of his employees hundred million dollars to sign on. So I said that on a podcast with his brother, so we can't really know if that's for certain. Uh, after that, obviously, there's some others. There's XAI. That's from Elon Musk. He offers Grock through that. That is their chatbot. You can get it through X. Uh, you can use it on the website or through an app. Big thing about Grock is it's able to pull data not only from the web, but also from X, so it can get live data through there. Then we have others, we have Perplexity. That is basically a search engine built with generative AI in mind. Probably the best example of a competitor to what Google has to offer. Uh, it also has a lot of sourcing available, so it'll show you the sources of each, from each of those results that you search for. Obviously, you can also generate images if you want to do that, things along those lines. Uh, and then finally, we have Anthropic. That's gotten a lot of funding through Google and Amazon. It's available through a number of services, and they as well offer a kind of web browser experience where you can search, you can create different documents and things along those lines. But really, those are the major players that you have to be watching out for. There's a few others. Uh, obviously, we have Thinking Machines from OpenAI alumni. We also have a few others like Mistral out of France. Uh, but these seven here are really the biggest players at the moment.

06:35 Josh Lipton

All right. Thank you, Dan.