v16.0 – Google takes a page from Bing and Yahoo, testing a news-rich homepage. Toyota and Lexus are tipping their hats to Tesla, hopping on board with the NACS connector for their sleek EVs. And to round off our tech fiesta, Microsoft secures Activision Blizzard for a cool $69bn.
v15.0 – Adobe MAX 2023 is painting a pixelated future. Google’s AI is playing traffic cop in a dozen cities, ensuring the road to the future is less congested. And on ESPN, they’re melding Toy Story and NFL into a game where Buzz might finally get that forward pass from Woody. Buckle up, it’s techie out there!
v14.0 – U2 breaks in the Sphere in Las Vegas, Mark Zuckerberg shows off Meta’s photorealistic avatar tech, Amazon and Microsoft are adding AI to a wide suite of products. Oh yeah, and we tossed in a rocket-propelled VW Bug because why not?
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v13.0 – Google is letting Bard run wild on your Google Apps if you give it permission of course, DALL-E 3 is out and looks to be a major step forward for Open AI’s generative AI image engine. Cisco spends a few coins to acquire Splunk and IBM is committed to training over 2 million people on AI by 2026.
v12.0 – Get ready to throw out your Apple lightning cables, Salesforce is letting Einstein GPT across its product suite and Deloitte puts out a report on how manufacturing companies are using the “industrial metaverse”.
v11.0 – IBM and Salesforce team up to bring AI to enterprise CRM customers, Drake’s AI song was submitted for a Grammy, OpenAI thinks they can help teach your kids and it turns out that your car is likely a horrible privacy offender.
v10.0 – Google launches Duet, IBM is rolling out highly efficient speech recognition chips and we take a retrospective look at digital fashion in 2023.
v9.0 – Meta is entering the code assistant game, IBM and the USTA team up to bring generative commentary to the masses, and Acura & Honda are adopting the Tesla EV charging standard.
v8.0 – IBM and Microsoft collaborate on generative AI for businesses, OpenAI is working on an AI powered Content Moderation System, Ford CEO runs into some trouble when he hits the road in his new F-150 Lightning EV and Google is building an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice.
v7.0 – The White House announces a new $20 Million dollar AI Cyber Challenge to crowdsource solutions to patch software vulnerabilities in the US’ digital infrastructure. Slack is due for a redesign, the music industry is exploring how to monetize deepfake songs and Netflix inches closer into the gaming space.
Written by Marc LeJay, GPJ Strategist – When you remove the artificial delineation between “B2C” and “B2B”, the underlying patterns of their journeys are relatively the same.
v6.0 – Amazon plans to get into the satellite broadband game, Apple & Google maps have a new open-source competitor, big automakers get behind a new charging network and OpenAI shutters its AI Detection Tool.
Written by Marc LeJay, GPJ Strategist A music lover and avid festivalgoer, EDC had always been on his bucket list. As it turns out, not only did he have the time of his life, but the festival changed the way that he viewed the work that he does as an experience designer. Electric Daisy Carnival …
v5.0 – The Tour de France gets an onsite AI powered avatar guide for the event. The “NeverEnding game” is coming for our free time, Meta publishes their latest open-source model “Llama 2” for enterprise applications and OpenAI is holding back multi-modal features due to privacy concerns.
v3.0 – Fortnite and Nike team up, NASA convinces people to live in a real life Mars replica for a year and Github Copilot turns 1 with “1.5 Trillion in Global GDP”.
v2.0 – Toyota is integrating AI into their design process, Roblox goes after an older demographic and Dropbox gets into the AI search engine game.
v1.0 – ChatGPT continues to add more features, Google & Puma are getting experimental in the shopper space and we may get a new Beatles song thanks to AI.
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Recently, GPJ CEO Chris Meyer had an opportunity to discuss our agency’s recent global milestones with Ready to Melt host, Suresh Vinkat, offering a chance to talk at-large about the global trends in experiential marketing and the hottest topics that will inform event strategies in the year ahead. Here is part two of the interview. …
Recently, GPJ CEO Chris Meyer had an opportunity to discuss our agency’s global milestones with Ready to Melt host, Suresh Vinkat, offering a chance to talk at-large about the global trends in experiential marketing and the hottest topics that will inform event strategies in the year ahead. Here is part one of the interview: Last …
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