Author: Johan Sanneblad

Last week OpenAI updated their GPT-4o model with image creation capabilities. If you had previously used ChatGPT to create images using their model “DALL-E 3” you know it was quite a poor performer, so maybe you skipped this news due to low expectations. But the image generation capabilities of GPT-4o is completely unlike anything you…

The wildfires in Los Angeles this year are predicted to have cost over $250 billion, becoming one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Current satellite systems like VIIRS and MODIS can detect fires quickly (within a few hours) but have problems identifying smaller fires (<100m²). Other systems like Sentinel-2 have details down to…

Will you use Google Search in 2026 the same way you have been using it over the past two decades? I am quite sure the answer is no. I am a firm believer in agentic search, and I believe it will change everything about how we store and publish information online. Last week Andrej Karpathy…

Most companies I speak with today are rolling out generative AI in two main areas: customer support and digitizing documents for AI access. When it comes to customer support we have finally reached the point where AI agents can now handle most tasks fully autonomously. If you have a good pipeline setup by someone who…

Last week OpenAI finally launched their successor of GPT-4o: GPT-4.5, and the entire Internet quickly became full of (mostly) disappointed old guys claiming AI-development has stalled. GPT-4.5 does not significantly improve performance in test benchmarks, and since it was initially only available for $200 /month Pro subscribers, very few could actually test it. I seem…

OpenAI just crossed 400 million weekly active users, which is close to 5% of the world’s population. This means that they are growing at an astounding 50 million weekly active users per month, just 2 months ago OpenAI announced that they have 300 million weekly active users. The growth is accelerating, and OpenAI predicts they…

In the coming few weeks we should see a massive influx of new AI models being released. ChatGPT 4.5 is due in a few weeks, Grok 3 is to be released today (!) and is described as “scary smart” by Elon Musk, and Claude 4 is on it’s way too. These models are trained using…

Let’s say you need to identify products in a store using AI. Legacy methods rely on manually labeled training data, requiring months to adapt to new product packaging or layouts, while struggling with accuracy below 95% in cluttered, low-light store conditions. These systems often fail when products appear sideways, are partially obscured, or appear in…

As many of you saw in my LinkedIn post last week – I have quit my job at RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) and I am starting a new AI company. The first question most of you asked me was “What will happen with Tech Insights”? Tech Insights will continue just as before, for free,…

Last week OpenAI finally released their computer-using agent Operator, and it is now possible to ask an AI to buy groceries, book restaurants, search LinkedIn and collect relevant information for your next newsletter. It’s still a very early version, still in “preview”, and still based on GPT-4o, but it represents the first steps towards a…