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- OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft have released a flood of AI updates in recent weeks.
- The hype cycle was caused in part by a surge in AI funding and companies' psychological motivations, a Gartner analyst told BI.
- The race could slow if funding slows, the analyst said, which could also impact startups.
If you feel like you can't keep up with the deluge of AI announcements, you're not alone.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt summed up what many of us are thinking at the VivaTech conference in Paris earlier this week: "It feels confusing."