The slow rise of fog computing
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Good afternoon. The dust has settled from the dramatic entrance of DeepSeek onto the world stage in January, which sent Nvidia's stock tumbling 17%, losing $600mn in a single day. It's now broadly recovered, but it's an open question whether the big tech companies in the US are overspending on AI. Alibaba, meanwhile, has just released its AI model, which it says outperforms those from DeepSeek and OpenAI. As our writer says, it's a delicious twist of irony that the rise of the Chinese AI industry was borne out of necessity after the Biden administration's 2022 ban.?
We've also got a piece on fog computing, which is best described as cloud computing at the edge. The early cloud era was about centralising computer resources that provide greater access at lower prices. Edge computing is about decentralising some of those features and resources for greater response speeds and security. Fog computing rolls in to fill the middle.?
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