Industry Developments

Industry news and analysis of AI developments that matter for people who don't have time to read all the papers but still need to sound informed in front of clients.

Meta's Three-Llama Monte

Meta’s Three-Llama Monte Meta just released Llama 4, its new family of AI models, and while the technical specifications are genuinely interesting, the entire launch feels like watching someone try...

Google's Second Chance at AI Dominance

One of the peculiar narratives in modern technology is how Google, with its vast resources, elite talent pool, and decade-long head start in machine learning, somehow found itself playing catch-up...

OpenAI Really Likes Reinforcement Learning

One way to think about artificial intelligence development is that companies build increasingly sophisticated machines to answer questions about how to build even more sophisticated machines. Another way to think...

Knowledge Companies Can't Just Build Their Own ChatGPT

Knowledge Companies Can’t Just Build Their Own ChatGPT The thing about modern artificial intelligence is that it’s technically two things: there’s the raw intelligence part (the “large language model” or...

AI, Insight, and the Business of Science

One thing to think about in artificial intelligence is the distinction between information processing and insight. AI models are getting really good at the former – they can process vast...

Accounting for AI

Accounting for AI There’s a thing that happens in the world of frontier AI models where companies announce how much it cost to train their latest model, and everyone gets...