Last week Anthropic launched their Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Claude can now connect to any system in the world and do basically anything you can imagine. This goes way beyond the basic read-only app integrations OpenAI recently introduced in ChatGPT for macOS, MCP is an open-source framework to integrate Claude with any service using local ”plugins”. Currently MCP is limited in that it can only run locally on your computer and you must explicitly allow Claude access to every service you have installed for every chat you create, but the possibilities are enormous. Other news this week: Anthropic will…

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Last week OpenAI launched a major update to ChatGPT, and if you have one minute to spare go ahead and listen to the Eminem-style rap song below, written with the latest “Creative Update” of ChatGPT and rendered with the new Suno v4. This is a whole new level of content, and we are rapidly approaching the point where AI is good enough for all text writing and all song production. How many people do you know who could have written a song text like this? Other top news this week: Elon Musk is now ranked the #1 Diablo IV player…

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Imagine a future where you can have a single autonomous robot perform almost any type of surgery known to man. You could fly it out to developing countries or disaster zones, or use it to drastically shorten hospital queues. Researchers at John Hopkins University just announced a breakthrough where a robot could execute the same surgical procedures as skillfully as human doctors, trained only by watching videos of seasoned surgeons in action. Among other news this week: ChatGPT just announced native app-integration on macOS, meaning that ChatGPT can now read data from select apps. In January OpenAI is set to…

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Do you apply to jobs on LinkedIn? Then it’s time to buy Premium. Only Premium members can see if they are a Top Applicant, and only Top Applicants get prioritized by the new AI Hiring Assistant. Is there a risk that great talents are missed? Yes. Can large organizations optimize their recruitment processes? Absolutely. I think it will be very interesting to see how many companies adopt the AI Hiring Assistant and how it will affect the job application process as a whole going forward. Among other news this week: GitHub reports a 59% surge in GenAI projects year-over-year, finally…

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It finally happened, ChatGPT can now search the web and summarize the results for you. Suddenly all competing models such as Gemini and Claude will now appear “dumb”, and I expect both Anthropic and Google to add search functionality to their LLMs shortly. The bigger question is how this will affect Google — if they add web search to Gemini they now have two competing ways to search the web: (1) Gemini with web search, and (2) Google Search with Gemini summaries. And how does ads fit into all this? If you are a company that depends on ads and…

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The greatest news last week was definitely Anthropic’s Computer Use API, which allows their large language model Claude “to perceive and interact with computer interfaces”. In practice Claude can, if you allow it, move your mouse cursor, start applications, browse web pages and type in text. It can also download documents and files, open Visual Studio code and compile software programs. It’s a bit buggy, it crashes, it’s expensive, and yet it’s totally amazing. I have collected a few examples below, and this together with the new ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode that was just launched in the EU really makes…

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A recent study by Goldman Sachs revealed that energy demand from data centers in the U.S. is expected to triple between 2023 and 2030 and will require an additional 47 GW of energy. To meet these demands, Amazon and Google announced last week that they will build their own small modular nuclear reactors (SMR). In addition to that, the US aims to activate 300 new next-generation nuclear reactors by 2050. People are increasingly integrating AI into their daily lives, and when demand goes up so does the energy requirements. As an example, in September 2024 the ChatGPT website reached a…

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In 2019 Elon Musk said “I think we will have fully self-driving cars this year”. In 2020 it was still “level five autonomy this year”. In 2021 it was “this year” and in 2022 it was “we’ll achieve full self-driving this year”. And last year in 2023 Elon Musk said “I think we’ll do [FSD] this year”. At this year’s event “We Robot” it was no longer “this year”, it was “next year” and in two regions: California and Texas. Maybe if the event was held in January 2025 it would still be “this year”. I was one of those…

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Last week OpenAI secured over $10 Billion, promising over $100 Billion in profit by 2029 which is roughly what Nestlé and Target makes each year. To reach those figures in five years OpenAI needs to provide something people value equally as much as food and clothes. AGI might be such a thing, and maybe this is what they will deliver in five years. If this is the case then our society will change much faster than anyone could ever have anticipated, and the current investment round of $6.6 Billion will seem small in comparison. On second news, scientists have now…

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Wow this was a crazy week! Meta presented their $10,000 AR glasses as a result from spending over $46 billion on the Metaverse since 2019, OpenAI finally rolled out Advanced Voice Mode, and Duolingo introduced numerous AI powered features! Two weeks ago Youtube announced automatic audio dubbing, and this week Facebook took it one step further introducing both audio dubbing and automated lip syncing for reels. This will change Facebook and Instagram reels forever, and in a few months we will all be watching tons of AI generated content on a daily basis. I’m still not convinced this is a…

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