Category: Tech Insights

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…

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…

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]…

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…

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…

If you live outside the EU and UK, everything you have ever written and posted to LinkedIn has now been used by LinkedIn and their affiliate partners to train new AI models, and there is nothing you could have done to prevent this. Last week LinkedIn quietly announced that they have trained new AI models…

Thanks to Google Audio Overviews, you can now listen to this weekly newsletter as a podcast! If you have not yet experienced Audio Overviews, prepare to have your mind blown! 🤯 In fact, if you have limited time, skip reading this altogether and spend just 1 minute listening to the beginning of this podcast. It’s…

On December 11, 2020, Pfizer announced their first vaccine for SARS-CoV-2. The vaccine had been developed in less than a year, setting a new standard for vaccine development where vaccines under “normal” circumstances can take up to 10-15 years to make. Last week Google DeepMind announced AlphaProteo, a groundbreaking AI system that can design custom…

It has finally happened! We are now at the point where a large language model can generate code that is of such high quality that it is no longer beneficial to write the code yourself, no matter how good your skills are. I have written several apps in Node and Python the past week with…

Wow, what a crazy AI week it has been! Among the top news are OpenAI who just announced free (!) fine-tuning of GPT-4o until September 23, Ideogram 2.0 image generator with amazing text rendering, Meshy-4 the amazing image-to-3D model generator, and Lumalabs Dream Machine 1.5. On top of that we have an AI powered mosquito…