Author: Johan Sanneblad

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 38

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 38

    On Friday last week, Anthropic posted a status message saying: “We’ve identified the root causes of the reported quality issues and deployed mitigations for each. A technical post-mortem will be published on our engineering blog next week”. If you like me have been using Claude Code extensively the past months you know that it has…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 37

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 37

    Hello and welcome to a new episode of Tech Insights! The past week was fairly low on news, the TLDR version of the week is that NotebookLM got four new audio formats, including the interesting new “debate” mode where each host picks a different side in a discussion, Google launched a small and super efficient…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 36

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 36

    Aaron Levie, CEO at Box wrote this on X two days ago: “We’re going to look back on the world that was pre-AI and be absolutely astonished by how slow everything was. Every week at Box as we got AI-first, we highlight a workflow where someone internally built an AI agent for automating some process.…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 35

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 35

    You have probably seen the headline by now: 95% of all Generative AI pilots are failing according to a new MIT NANDA report. Within minutes thousands of LinkedIn AI experts rushed to declare that the AI bubble is bursting and that we all should be focusing on something else. But those of us who took…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 34

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 34

    Do you know what a vision backbone is in AI? The word backbone here refers to a feature extraction network that processes input data into meaningful feature representations, also called a feature extractor. Examples of vision backbones are the traditional AlexNet which initiated the modern era of deep learning, ResNet and Google Inception (GoogLeNet). Training…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 33

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 33

    Last week OpenAI launched GPT-5, their new “system of models”. Unlike GPT-4 and GPT-4o, GPT-5 is not a model but is instead a system with a smart router (OpenAI calls it the “autoswitcher”) that will try to direct your message to the right model for the task. Ask it to solve a math problem –…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 32

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 32

    Last week OpenAI announced that they are generating over $1 billion per month with over 700 million weekly active users. AI will soon be used daily by everyone with an Internet connection, and while most of today’s AI services can be used for free, they will soon become quite expensive. Microsoft launched “Copilot Mode” for…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 31

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 31

    The gap between EU and US when it comes to AI development just reached a critical point. Last week the US launched its AI Action Plan, which outlines an “unapologetic strategy” that prioritizes speed, deregulation, and market dominance over regulatory compliance. The Plan outlines over 90 Federal policy actions targeting infrastructure, innovation and global leadership.…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 30

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 30

    Always skate to where the puck is going! In one of my previous jobs we worked closely with coach Kevin Ryan, who previously worked eight years as the general manager of 08 Stockholm Human Rights (a Basketball Club). Kevin kept pushing the famous mantra by Wayne Gretzky to always try to predict where things are…

  • Tech Insights 2025 Week 29

    Tech Insights 2025 Week 29

    Last week Elon Musk and xAI finally launched Grok 4, their next generation model, and at the same time unveiled a $300-per-month AI subscription plan called SuperGrok Heavy. “With respect to academic questions, Grok 4 is better than PhD level in every subject, no exceptions,” said Elon Musk during a livestream Wednesday night. “At times,…