Category: Tech Insights

“There is no wall — inference compute continues to scale” said OpenAI after they announced o3 last Friday, which performs better than humans on one of the benchmarks for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)! 🤯 The past week showed some truly amazing AI innovations. Google launched Veo 2 and Imagen 3 that produce some of the…

Wow, this was the most feature-packed AI week of 2024 yet! Google made FIVE major AI launches paving the way for agentic AI, we got a new quantum computing chip Willow, and OpenAI finally released Sora and Advanced Voice Mode with Vision! We also got a new weather prediction model from Google called GenCast, which…

“Browsing no longer needs to be a lonely experience”. Microsoft just launched Copilot Vision that will keep you company while shopping, planning the weekend or playing computer games. Unsure if a sweater will look good on you? Just ask Copilot. In Microsoft’s vision of the future Copilot is your best friend that is always there…

Last week Anthropic launched their Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Claude can now connect to any system in the world and do basically anything you can imagine. This goes way beyond the basic read-only app integrations OpenAI recently introduced in ChatGPT for macOS, MCP is an open-source framework to integrate Claude with any service using…

Last week OpenAI launched a major update to ChatGPT, and if you have one minute to spare go ahead and listen to the Eminem-style rap song below, written with the latest “Creative Update” of ChatGPT and rendered with the new Suno v4. This is a whole new level of content, and we are rapidly approaching…

Imagine a future where you can have a single autonomous robot perform almost any type of surgery known to man. You could fly it out to developing countries or disaster zones, or use it to drastically shorten hospital queues. Researchers at John Hopkins University just announced a breakthrough where a robot could execute the same…

Do you apply to jobs on LinkedIn? Then it’s time to buy Premium. Only Premium members can see if they are a Top Applicant, and only Top Applicants get prioritized by the new AI Hiring Assistant. Is there a risk that great talents are missed? Yes. Can large organizations optimize their recruitment processes? Absolutely. I…

It finally happened, ChatGPT can now search the web and summarize the results for you. Suddenly all competing models such as Gemini and Claude will now appear “dumb”, and I expect both Anthropic and Google to add search functionality to their LLMs shortly. The bigger question is how this will affect Google — if they…

The greatest news last week was definitely Anthropic’s Computer Use API, which allows their large language model Claude “to perceive and interact with computer interfaces”. In practice Claude can, if you allow it, move your mouse cursor, start applications, browse web pages and type in text. It can also download documents and files, open Visual…

A recent study by Goldman Sachs revealed that energy demand from data centers in the U.S. is expected to triple between 2023 and 2030 and will require an additional 47 GW of energy. To meet these demands, Amazon and Google announced last week that they will build their own small modular nuclear reactors (SMR). In…