Plan big, act small. With Anthropic’s latest model release, the fabulously expensive Fable 5, it’s a timely reminder that when you have a big, expensive model, you should use it to do planning, and then hand off the execution to a small, fast, cheap model that doesn’t have to think, it just has to follow…
If it’s a good idea, it’ll work back to your ecosystem. The AI hype train loves to shout that this or that is about to change everything, and that if you’re not using XYZ thing, you’re forever left behind, a Neanderthal amidst modern man, a third class passenger on the Titanic in steerage. The thing…
Accessible = AI ready. A gentle reminder that if you create things that are WCAG 2.1 ready (web content accessibility guidelines), you are implicitly creating them to be AI-ready for agents, because AI agents use the same selectors (e.g. Playwright, browser automation) that assistive technology uses. For example, ARIA HTML labels? Perfect fodder for browser…
8 hours. That’s how long the new version of Zhipu AI’s (aka ZAI) flagship model, GLM-5.1, is capable of working autonomously and still cranking out high quality results. ZAI trained ths new model entirely on Huawei Ascend chips, not an NVIDIA GPU in sight. This is China’s leading chip maker for AI, and the benchmarks…
Deterministic is the container. Probabilistic is the contents. When it comes to measuring the success of an AI task, the first, most important thing to do is have some kind of outcome that AI can benchmark itself against. This is the fifth P in the 5P Framework by Trust Insights™, performance. And if you want…
Should AI be used for military purposes? This is the heart of the question given the current conflict. Let’s pull on two threads. First, the Anthropic/Department of War battle about Claude indicates that Claude is actively in use by the Department of War for things like planning. In related articles, OpenAI, xAI, and Google were…
