As AI pervades every sphere of modern life, the central challenge facing business leaders, policymakers and innovators is no longer whether to adopt intelligent systems but how. In a world marked by escalating polarization, resource depletion, eroding trust in institutions and volatile information landscapes, the critical imperative is to engineer AI so that it contributes meaningfully and…
DeepSeek R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
January 27, 2025
DeepSeek R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% of the cost, this open-source model has not only captivated developers but…
We asked OpenAI’s o1 about the top AI trends in 2025 — here’s a look into our conversation
January 27, 2025
AI is already reshaping industries and society on a global scale. IDC predicts that AI will contribute $19.9 trillion to the global economy by 2030, comprising 3.5% of GDP. This momentum is exemplified by the recent announcement of “Project Stargate,” a partnership to…
Flow Specialty launches the 1st AI insurance broker
January 23, 2025
Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be critically important as people struggle to get insurance in the wake of various disasters. The firm is based in Mountain View…
In case you missed it amid the flurry of executive orders coming out of the White House in the days since President Trump returned to office for his second non-consecutive term this week, the single largest investment in AI infrastructure was just announced yesterday…
Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, pressuring OpenAI’s premium strategy
January 23, 2025
Google has quietly released a major update to its popular artificial intelligence model, Gemini, which now explains its reasoning process, sets new performance records in mathematical and scientific tasks, and offers a free alternative to OpenAI’s premium services. The new…
A new AI agent has emerged from the parent company of TikTok to take control of your computer and perform complex workflows. Much like Anthropic’s Computer Use, ByteDance new UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action.
Trained on roughly 50B tokens and offered in 7B and 72B parameter versions, the PC/MacOS agents achieves…
The AI media tech provider Runway has announced the release of Frames, its newest text-to-image generation model, and it’s winning early praise from users for producing highly cinematic visuals — a fitting compliment given Runway is known primarily as an AI video model…
Anthropomorphizing AI: Dire consequences of mistaking human-like for human have already emerged
January 23, 2025
In our rush to understand and relate to AI, we have fallen into a seductive trap: Attributing human characteristics to these robust but fundamentally non-human systems. This anthropomorphizing AI is not just a harmless quirk of human nature — it is becoming an increasingly…
Microsoft AutoGen v0.4: A turning point toward more intelligent AI agents for enterprise developers
January 21, 2025
The world of AI agents is undergoing a revolution, and Microsoft’s release of AutoGen v0.4 this week marked a significant leap forward in this journey. Positioned as a robust, scalable and extensible framework, AutoGen represents Microsoft’s latest attempt to address the challenges of building multi-agent systems for enterprise applications. But what does this release tell us about the state…
