Author: Johan Sanneblad

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

“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…

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…