DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Maryanne Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
SAMSON SKY SWITCHBLADE - FLYING VEHICLE OF THE FUTURE
- Switchblade is paving the way for cars in the air. It's a real plane and a real car combination, that has successfully flown and is street legal. Here's what we know:
- Has 3 wheels and folding wings
- Wings and tail can extend in 3 minutes for flying
- It's road legal and can drive to the airport and then transition to flight
- One version can fly through clouds with zero visibility
- Has FAA airworthiness approval
- Just completed its 1st successful test flight
- For 14 years, it's been through design and rigorous testing and is heading to market
- It's in huge demand with the 2-seat version getting 2300 reservations
- High performance car with unique hybrid electrical system and uses auto gas (91 octane unleaded gas)
- 3-cylinder, 1.0 liter engine with 190 hp
- To fly it you'll need a private pilot's license
- Speed: up to 200 mph
- Range: 450 miles
- Altitude: up to 13,000 feet
- Comes in 2 versions:
- $170,000 version for clear weather condition flying
- $196,000 version for various weather condition flying, including cloudy with zero visibility.
OPEN AI'S CHAT GPT TURNS ONE
Source: AI Stock
- Hard to believe but ChatGPT, one of the most transformative technologies of our time, is turning 1-year-old. Here are some key facts:
- It's powered on a large language model trained on 570 gigabytes of data containing 300 billion words
- It, along with its competitors in the generative AI sector, are in the process of fundamentally changing business, communications, the arts, jobs, professions and much more
- Just in terms of productivity, it could add $4.4 trillion to the global economy per year
- ChatGPT is the fastest growing app in history
- While there are concerns about its unregulated potentialities, it is already improving, disrupting and upending our lives every day.
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