There’s a fashionable saying in Silicon Valley that the best entrepreneurs ‘pull in amazing innovations from the future’ to today. The ones spoken about reverentially in this ‘Tech Hero’ story of course are folks like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, recently...

I’ve talked at length about the coming AI Compute Data demand from AI Synthetic Data. And hinted at the coming deluge of AI Synthetic Content. Meta this week had a plethora of AI announcements, from multimodal open source Llama 3.2, to upgraded Ray-ban...

Back last May, I penned a piece on Facebook/Meta as ‘the fourth AI Kingpin’ after Microsoft/OpenAI, Google, and Amazon, with a differentiated open source AI strategy “that throws sand in their gears”. Specifically, I noted that under founder/CEO...

OpenAI’s record funding & Dev Day 2024: OpenAI closed its $6.6 billion in new funding at a $157 billion valuation, along with a $5 billion credit line, to continue rolling out its pipeline of new AI products and services. The terms provide its investors...

The Bigger Picture, Sunday, September 29 2024 Regular readers have seen my discussions on ‘AI Smart Agents’ eventually making an impact in this AI Tech Wave for a while now. Indeed, OpenAI has described it as Level 3 in their 5 level roadmap towards AGI....

As I’ve long emphasized, AI is not just tethered to ever bigger AI cloud data centers, as the current race on ‘AI Table Stakes’ may sometimes suggest. The race to add AI bottom up in our personal computers continues in this AI Tech Wave. Microsoft...

Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’ of market competition is alive and well in this AI Tech Wave. Let me explain. As I’ve covered at length before, regulators in the US and EU continue to fret over the need to regulate AI in this AI Tech Wave. And are...

One of the most memorable characters in the iconic 1990 SciFi movie ‘Total Recall’ (the Arnold Schwarzenegger version), is Johnnycab above, the robotic taxi and its memorable ‘driver’. The movie is worth re-watching for that character alone. The quest...

Yesterday, I discussed how ‘two opposing things can be true at once’. It’s likely what Charles Dickens had in mind when he opened ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. As compelling a hook into a beefy book as...

OpenAI o1 ‘AI Reasoning’ Reception: Reactions to OpenAI’s o1 ‘AI Reasoning’ models have generally been positive at this early stage. The point being stressed of course is that these are the earliest days for the new models. OpenAI founder/CEO Sam...