An Interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth About Orion and Reality Labs
Llama 3.1; Zuckerberg on Open Source AI; Kamala Harris, Europe, and Tech Innovation
Meta has released a state-of-the-art model that is available as open weights; this gets at how the U.S. can win going forward.
Databricks Buys Tabular, The End of Software?
Understanding why Databricks bought Tabular, and why there will still be a market for software in the future.
AI Integration and Modularization
Breaking down the Big Tech AI landscape through the lens of integration and modularization
An Interview with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi About Building Enterprise AI
An interview with Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi about founding Databricks, managing large data, and creating AI for enterprise.
Meta and Open
Meta is making lots of noise about being open, in everything from AI to the metaverse. This isn’t desperation: it’s smart strategy that understands Meta’s true differentiation.
The XZ Backdoor, What Happened, Open Source Safety
A backdoor was inserted in an obscure open source project, and uncovered nearly by accident. What happened, how did it happen, and what needs to happen to prevent it in the future?
Elon Musk vs. OpenAI, OpenAI’s Response, OpenAI’s Foundational Problem
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI; he probably won’t win, because there wasn’t a contract to be breached, but the lawsuit does highlight how far OpenAI is from the non-profit it started as.
An Interview with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross Reasoning About AI
An interview with Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross about Gemini, Groq, Sora, Mistral, and why the next big breakthrough is AI that can reason.
Mistral, Microsoft’s Investment, Generative AI and Customer Support
Mistral is building foundational models in Europe, but Microsoft’s investment is a reminder that GPU is still the point of leverage. Then, customer support is an obvious AI use case that is already gaining traction.