Bigger Picture, Sunday July 12, 2025 As we race to integrate AI into our lives by augmenting our abilities and memories, new issues are fast need our attention. Long time readers here know that my first post here on AI: Reset to Zero, over two years ago,...

xAI rolls out Grok 4: Elon Musk launched the latest major upgrade to xAI’s LLM AI model, Grok 4, in various sizes and capabilities. The model on first tests ranks well against comparable offerings from major peers including OpenAI, Google Gemini,...

The fifth major LLM AI company in the US announced a major upgrade, and predictably, it’s scoring well in the ranks vs OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta et al. I’m of course talking about Elon Musk’s X/xAI scrappy AI Grok of course, which rolled out Grok 4...

We’ve covered the growth of AI Cloud companies beyond Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google and Oracle Cloud (in that order of size) beyond NeoClouds before here on AI: RTZ. They’re led by companies like CoreWeave (with Nvidia, OpenAI et al as equity...

Keywords Apple, Meta, AI talent, organizational changes, global marketplace, art, creativity, retail, small shops, technology Summary In this episode of AI Ramblings, Michael Parekh and Neal Makwana discuss significant organizational changes at...

For those worried about Apple not having an AI strategy in this AI Tech Wave, rest assured. They had some senior AI researchers/talent that Meta wanted at the founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg level. This is while Meta continues its Vikings like pillaging...

A cool Japanese AI startup company Sakana AI, named for ‘fish’, just published and released some AI work that could help the AI world learn how to fish a lot better. And it’s a company whose founders have already earned the attention (pun intended,...

The race is on to rename the Rose. In all its shades. From the beginning, it’s been about fear vs opportunity in this AI Tech Wave. Despite all the AI Uncertainties. Decel vs Accel, short for decelerate or accelerate. Towards an AI Nirvana, a Xanadu,...

The Bigger Picture, Sunday July 6, 2025 As I reviewed the mid-year 2025 AI picture for this AI Tech Wave a few days ago, the AI industry is in a ‘pedal to the metal’ stance on AI investments. From AI data center & power infrastructure, to AI Chips...

Meta AI Talent Gold Rush: Meta continued to accelerate its moves to revamp its AI team and strategy with a range of hires across the industry, with meaningful impact on AI Talent markets. In addition to its ‘acqui-hire’ of Scale AI for $14 billion, Meta...