Short takes on what matters in the world of AI: what's noise and what's next. Published every Monday by Johan Sanneblad, CEO of TokenTek.
AI is getting smart in ways few people expected. For a long time, one of the standard criticisms of large language models was that they are just next-token prediction models. The argument was that they could only remix material they had already seen during training, and therefore could not produce genuinely novel content. Last week, we…
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Two weeks ago there were over 2,000 plugins waiting in queue to be manually reviewed for the popular markdown editor Obsidian. The introduction of coding agents and interest for Obsidian as a virtual brain led to an explosion of new plugins being written for the platform, and the review process up…
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The past few months I have held full-day workshops in agentic engineering for hundreds of developers. And what strikes me every time is how little most people know about how AI models really work. And there's a good reason for it. I still haven't encountered any good management-level introduction…
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GPT-5.5 is different. GPT-5.5 is the first model trained at OpenAI's flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas, one of the supercomputing facilities funded by the $500 billion partnership between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. The site runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is powered by NVIDIA's…