In my piece this Sunday ‘The new AI ‘Table Stakes’, this AI Tech Wave, I highlighted the escalating race on so many AI metrics for tech companies big and small : “As we go into the Fall of 2024, just two months shy of the second anniversary of...

Looks like we may have an inkling on OpenAI and founder/CEO Sam Altman’s ‘Strawberry Summer’ I discussed recently, a reference to their ‘Level 2’ AI Reasoning project formerly known as ‘Q*’. Code names aside, this is their self-hinted path to AGI...

Looks like we may have an inkling on OpenAI and founder/CEO Sam Altman’s ‘Strawberry Summer’ I discussed recently, a reference to their ‘Level 2’ AI Reasoning project formerly known as ‘Q*’. Code names aside, this is their self-hinted path to AGI...

The stage is set for the main act. Apple’s walked through their AI upgraded iPhone/Apple Watch/AirPods lineup, at their annual September 9 event in Cupertino. The the new AI optimized devices, ready to release Apple’s ‘Apple Intelligence’, ship...

OpenAI is not just leading in the top LLM AI platforms, product iterations and innovations. It’s apparently also leading in figuring out the price elasticity of its many products and services. Determining what the market will bear is tough in AI since the...

The Bigger Picture, Sunday September 8, 2024 As we go into the Fall of 2024, just two months shy of the second anniversary of OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT moment’ of November 2022, the ‘Table Stakes’ in this AI Tech Wave have gone way up for the top LLM AI players....

Ilya’s New Hyperscale Safe Superintelligence (SSI): Former OpenAI co-founder and Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever is raising over a billion dollars at a $5 billion plus valuation for the new venture ‘super-safe’ Safe Superintelligence (SSI). This would make...

It could be argued that much of what has transpired thus far in this AI Tech Wave, has been driven by Ilya Sutskever, former OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist. And also now famous for his role in OpenAI’s Governance drama back last November. And his...

I’ve been discussing Microsoft’s ‘All-in’ AI strategy around its Copilot brand for some months now, in this AI Tech Wave race. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been ‘pedal to the metal’ on unleashing AI powered Copilot Github for Developers, Copilot...

New technologies have always challenged the way we’ve built institutional habits, particularly in Education. Early digital calculators caused concerns that kids would now have atrophied math skills by leaning on these new-fangled technology ‘improvements’....