Let’s say you need to identify products in a store using AI. Legacy methods rely on manually labeled training data, requiring months to adapt to new product packaging or layouts, while struggling with accuracy below 95% in cluttered, low-light store conditions. These systems often fail when products appear sideways, are partially obscured, or appear in unpredictable merchandising configurations. Despite recent advancements in convolutional networks and deep learning, these issues have remained, until now. Last week Andrew Ng introduced Agentic Object Detection, a groundbreaking approach that allows AI systems to identify objects in images using just simple text prompts like “unripe…

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As many of you saw in my LinkedIn post last week – I have quit my job at RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) and I am starting a new AI company. The first question most of you asked me was “What will happen with Tech Insights”? Tech Insights will continue just as before, for free, and I will even expand upon it to make the concept even better! If you live near Gothenburg in Sweden, starting in April we will arrange free, bi-monthly AI Business Meetups at Kvarnberget, right in the center of the city. We will serve breakfast, present…

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Last week OpenAI finally released their computer-using agent Operator, and it is now possible to ask an AI to buy groceries, book restaurants, search LinkedIn and collect relevant information for your next newsletter. It’s still a very early version, still in “preview”, and still based on GPT-4o, but it represents the first steps towards a future where everything you do on your computer can be done 100 times faster by an AI agent. However the most impressive release the past week was not Operator, but DeepSeek R1 from the Chinese startup DeepSeek. Released as Open Source using an MIT license,…

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A new month, and a new fascinating use case for Generative AI. This time it’s Microsoft that last week launched MatterGen, a generative AI tool that can generate novel materials given prompts of the design requirements. Microsoft believes MatterGen “will have a profound impact on how we design materials in broad domains including batteries, magnets, and fuel cells”. THIS WEEK’S NEWS: World Bank’s AI Education Program in Nigeria: Two Years of Learning in Six Weeks https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to-chatbots-Transforming-learning-in-Nigeria The News: My take: I have three kids myself, and all of them use ChatGPT as their home teacher on a nearly daily basis. They upload…

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Wow, what a start of 2025! AI now outperforms experts in detecting both breast cancer and ovarian cancer, new lawsuit says Zuckerberg approved engineers at Meta to download pirated material over torrent and remove copyright information to train their first Llama AI models, AI-generated phishing mails can now achieve higher click-through than expertly handcrafted phishing mails, Adobe introduces a new generative video model TransPixar that supports transparent backgrounds, and NVIDIA introduced a $3,000 AI supercomputer that is 50 times faster running Large Language Models than a Mac Studio M2 Ultra. THIS WEEK’S NEWS: AI Boosts Breast Cancer Detection by 18%…

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If you have been investigating AI Agent Frameworks (such as Swarm, Phidata, LangGraph, Autogen, CrewAI, Vertex AI or Langflow) you now have a new option from Hugging Face called Smolagents. Smolagents is an extremely lightweight option that differs from other frameworks in that it allows AI agents to write Python code directly instead of using JSON calls, which reduces the steps required by 30%. Definitely check this one out if you are developing AI agents and don’t need the comprehensive features or enterprise-grade capabilities of the larger frameworks. Among other news: Microsoft to invest $80 billion on Data Centers in…

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Welcome to my final newsletter of 2024, closing the most exciting year in computing since we got our first mobile App Store in 2008. Much like the App Store (with 500 apps on launch) showed a clear vision of the future, so did 2024 with its multimodal and “thinking” models, video generators and protein folding models. The main takeaway for me was being able to code 100% using only English prompts, primarily with Cursor + Claude. It’s still a bit rough, and it still requires you to be pretty skilled at software programming, but it’s amazingly fun and rewarding once…

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“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 best AI generated videos I have seen so far. Pika Labs launched version 2.0 with a new feature called “Scene Ingredients” that is amazingly good – check the videos below. Over 20 research laboratories collaborated for two years and finally launched “Genesis”, a new open-source…

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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 outperforms the current industry standard by 97.2%, a new open-source dataset from Harvard with over 1 million books, and xAI launched Aurora, their new image generator. The main takeaway from last week is how strong Google can be when they manage to weave all their…

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“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 for you, giving you honest advice and will help you plan your life. Other news this week: ChatGPT greatly outperformed doctors in diagnostic accuracy in a study, OpenAI launched o1, o1-pro and a Pro Subscription for $200/month, ElevenLabs launched “Conversational AI Platform” for simple agent…

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