What a difference a year makes. I was putting together slides for a private workshop I’m doing today, and for fun I decided to take a snapshot of Humanity’s Last Exam results from a year ago and from today. That was eye-opening. In a year’s time, what was described as one of the most difficult…
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…
Katie’s on vacation so I’m borrowing the ranty pants. I’ll give them back when she’s back from PTO. Earlier today, Pam Didner, Taylor Logue & Iva Ignjatovic produced a nice writeup of AI speakers, and in the post is this paragraph next to my entry (thank you!): “Pam’s take: Chris pairs well with a strategy…
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…
Pyramids to obelisks. Take a look at the job description in the attached image, for an account coordinator at a PR firm. Ask yourself honestly how much of this job AI could do, with today’s capabilities, especially with agentic tools like Claude Cowork. The answer is almost all of it. Creating first drafts of anything?…
A gentle reminder that the only GUARANTEED private AI is with models you are hosting yourself, on your machine or your infrastructure. Every cloud provider, without exception, will have somewhere in their Terms of Service that they will comply with lawful requests for data from the government of their jurisdiction. For example, this is inference…
