Episode 466: Great Grammarly

This week, we discuss 451’s Generative A.I. Market Forecast, OpenAI launching a search engine and Apple’s new iPads. Plus, a look back at Microsoft’s acquiring Nokia.

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Runner-up Titles

• Coté is in a Dungeon
• Everything’s going to be different
• What would Stringer Bell say?
• Displacing Google
• Great Grammarly
• A room full of barking dogs
• A little bit of hustle porn.
• Over value activity
• A whole room with barking dogs

Rundown

• Clouded Judgement 5.3.24
• OpenAI To Launch Search Engine
• Perplexity.AI raises $250 million with $3B valuation
• That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit
• The 7 biggest announcements from Apple’s iPad event
• HashiCorp Co-Founder Reflects 48-Hours After Selling to IBM

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• Justice for cord boxes!!!
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Conferences

• Executive Dinner in Atlanta, May 22nd - Coté is hosting it with a former Home Depot platform engineer, Tony.
• MS Build, Seattle May 21-23, Matt will be there
• NDC Oslo, Coté speaking, June 12th.
• DevOpsDays Amsterdam, June 19-21, 2024, Coté speaking.
• DevOpsDays Birmingham, August 19–21, 2024.
• SpringOne/VMware Explore US, August 26–29, 2024.
• SREday London 2024, September 19th to 20th, Coté speaking. 20% off with the code SRE20DAY.

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