US tech giants are coming together to protect open weight models. The rumor mill was churning: the US government was reportedly considering a ban on open weight models. If you're not familiar, open weight models are completely free to down…
HUGE announcement in the AI world. I knew this day was coming, but I didn’t think it would happen this soon. I’ve been a big advocate for open-weight AI models. If you have not heard of an open-weight AI model, these are models you can d…
There is blood in the water, and the sharks have smelled it. The AI price war has begun. I'm going to be honest, with the dominance OpenAI and Anthropic have shown in the frontier AI model space (and Google hanging in there), I thought th…
The youth are turning against AI. Pew Research Center ran a study to explore how Americans use and view artificial intelligence. As you might expect, AI usage continues to increase, with about half of U.S. adults now report using AI chat…
Demand-based AI pricing is coming. DeepSeek recently announced that using their AI models through their hosting service will be more expensive during peak windows (9am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm Beijing time). Expect to see token costs almos…
The token leaderboard is finally dead. I’ve made a bold claim that companies incentivizing AI usage do not have a real AI strategy. It seems that was accurate. 404 Media has obtained leaked Slack chats, screenshots of internal dashboards,…
Anthropic is a hypocrite. Anthropic is claiming that Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used almost 25,000 Claude accounts to help improve the performance of the Qwen models. This type of technique is called distillation. The premise is that you have…
Stop viewing AI as a subscription. AI can be used to build actual business assets. To do this, you need to shift how you think about AI. Instead of looking at AI as a cheap replacement for employees, or a jack of all trades master of none…
Stop listening to Anthropic. From “loops” to “goals” to now “tagging”, it feels like about once a month Anthropic will add some new feature to the Claude tech stack, and claim it’s the future. What should be more apparent to everyone is t…
Game on! OpenAI has their response to Claude Mythos. ChatGPT 5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna announced. Access will initially be provided to a group of trusted partners and organizations. What do you think of this new pattern of slow roll-out…
AI was not built to learn. I hear a lot of buzz about AI agents getting “smarter” over time. I certainly understand the appeal. You want the agents to learn from your conversations, and have a sense of “memory”. AI memory management is a…
Anthropic wants your government IDs! (sort of, there is a lot of misinformation going around) I saw this pop up a lot over the last few days. In Anthropic's privacy page, they reserve the right to request identity verification, depending o…
"You need clean data before you can use AI" is a myth. In many of my prospect and client calls, I keep hearing this misconception that you need to have all of your data completely cleaned, deduped, tagged and organized before your organiz…
The next big AI advancement will come from hardware. (Yes I am aware of Fable, and no I do not think it is a big AI advancement. An improvement, but this is not linear improvement. Twice the cost of Opus, not twice the performance). And we…
I recently had one of my clients say they needed a full time Oleg Nikolaev just to do AI research. I completely agree, everyone needs an Oleg, but I wanted to dive a little deeper on that. The AI landscape is changing very rapidly for a h…
Companies throw every good practice out the window the second AI enters the room. There is a hard lesson every business eventually learns: start with the problem, then find the right tool for the job. If you have ever been part of an organ…
The IPO reckoning is here. And you will soon be footing the bill. xAI, Anthropic, and now OpenAI have all filed the paperwork to go public. Anthropic's latest raise put its valuation at $965 billion, just topping OpenAI's $852 billion. Non…
