Category: Tech Insights

Last week was one of the biggest so far just in terms of sheer volume of AI news. Google I/O was all about AI this year and Microsoft Build was very AI centric too. I have tried summarizing everything the best I can below, but all in all it was probably over 30 AI-related news…

If you are developing software with AI, most of your prompts probably include “act like a senior developer”. The reason is that the large foundation models we use for programming like o3 and Claude 3.7 are not specifically tuned for this task, which means you have to explicitly tell them how they should act. “Do…

In Sweden there are still AI consultancy companies strongly defending what they call “Mogen AI” (“Mature AI” in English) – traditional machine learning based on manual feature engineering. The argument is that it’s “good enough” and that you really don’t need to invest in deep transformer skills. And I agree that this is often the…

Last month Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke sent out an internal memo saying that before employees ask for more headcount or resources, teams must first show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI”. And last week it was Duolingo’s turn, with their CEO Luis von Ahn sending out an internal memo saying “headcount…

Last week Swedish startup Lovable launched version 2.0 with a new feature called “multiplayer workspaces” where you can now vibe code apps together. Their motto is “idea to app in seconds, with your personal full stack engineer”. What started as a prototype called “GPT Engineer” is now a product used by over 300 000 monthly active users, and Lovable is…

Last week OpenAI launched five new models: GPT-4.1 (including mini and nano variants), o3 and o4-mini, together with a new command-line tool called Codex CLI. You now have six models to choose from in ChatGPT: GPT-4o, GPT-4o with scheduled tasks, GPT-4.5, o3, o4-mini, and o4-mini-high. If you use the API you can add GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1-mini…

Last week Meta launched their new Llama 4 models that scored amazingly well on benchmarks. Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, wrote “BOOM! The Llama-4 brood is out”, and Ahmad Al-Dahle, Head of GenAI at Meta, wrote “Llama 4 Behemoth outperforms GPT4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro”. Boom indeed, because when users…

Last week was one of the most important AI weeks this year for software developers. Microsoft rolled out their all-new Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot Pro with massive amounts of new features focused on autonomous AI-based agent coding. They even launched it with a short movie of Satya Nadella “vibe coding” a computer simulator…

Last week OpenAI updated their GPT-4o model with image creation capabilities. If you had previously used ChatGPT to create images using their model “DALL-E 3” you know it was quite a poor performer, so maybe you skipped this news due to low expectations. But the image generation capabilities of GPT-4o is completely unlike anything you…

The wildfires in Los Angeles this year are predicted to have cost over $250 billion, becoming one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Current satellite systems like VIIRS and MODIS can detect fires quickly (within a few hours) but have problems identifying smaller fires (<100m²). Other systems like Sentinel-2 have details down to…