The era of needing to send every query to a cloud API is ending. Modern Apple Silicon ships with enough unified memory and neural engine throughput to run 12-billion-parameter language...
“In the old days, many decisions were simply based on some mixture of experience and intuition. Experts were ordained because of their decades of individual trial-and-error experience.” — Ian Ayres, Super...
https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks/salesforce-stock-gets-a-brutal-reality-check-amid-software-slump The company that mocked Oracle is now worth less than most leading AI startups. Who’s laughing now? A few years ago, Salesforce was the cloud darling that mocked Oracle...
Unlock 2-3x faster AI on Apple Silicon! This post explores optimizing models with Ollama and MLX, boosting performance for demanding applications.
The reason is simple: because you can. M1 or later Macs with 16GB of RAM or more are powerful enough to run useful models on device without sending any data...
In today’s competitive job market, your digital presence is often your first impression. With recruiters spending just 6 seconds reviewing profiles and 740 million professionals competing on LinkedIn, strategic optimization...
Lightweight, private, and customizable retrieval-augmented chatbot running entirely on your Mac. Based on the excellent work by pruthvirajcyn and his Medium article. ⚙️ About This Project This is my personal...
https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral Mistral has unveiled Voxtral, an exciting new AI audio model that positions itself as a strong open-source competitor to Whisper, the reigning champion of speech recognition. With claims of...
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-meta-ai-talent-poaching-spree-leaked-messages/ It’s still too early to declare a winner in the AI arms race, but one thing is clear: the competition is accelerating, and OpenAI may struggle to maintain its...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg75zv4gny2ohttps://electrek.co/2025/03/23/everyones-missing-the-point-of-the-tesla-vision-vs-lidar-wile-e-coyote-video/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1JBAfV4Io Not here to debate whether Elon Musk is right to insist on self-driving using vision-based AI only, but the logic is straightforward: if it’s a vision-based system, avoid using...
https://www.ted.com/talks/audra_a_diptee_the_records_the_british_empire_didn_t_want_you_to_see In his thought-provoking book Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores the concept of historical records being erased as a means of political change. This phenomenon is not new; throughout history,...
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinkinghttps://futurism.com/apple-damning-paper-ai-reasoningAnother article about AI is not “reasoning” – https://www.zdnet.com/article/ais-not-reasoning-at-all-how-this-team-debunked-the-industry-hype/ While it may seem that Apple is disrupting the AI industry by releasing this paper, it’s crucial for everyone to understand...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33777https://futurism.com/time-workers-save-ai-jobs A research working paper pointing to LLM not having a big impact. And not improving salary even if it helped with productivity of workers. It’s just 2 years in...
https://bgr.com/tech/17-insane-veo-3-ai-videos-thatll-stop-you-from-trusting-anything-you-see-online/
https://github.com/KoljaB/RealtimeVoiceChat Cool project to play around with. Still haven’t found any good natural voice based computing system. Siri and others are just for small tasks around the house. But to...
In Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as in several of his recent interviews, he repeatedly emphasizes that money is one of the greatest stories humanity has ever invented. While it...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dr6neg766o I am sure there are people building these already, browsers fully integrated with LLMs, etc. But allowing OpenAI to just buy up access to 64% of web usage just...
https://www.businessinsider.com/vibe-coding-ai-silicon-valley-andrej-karpathy-2025-2 “Vibe coding is a new approach to programming that leverages AI tools to generate code based on natural language prompts. Instead of manually writing code, users describe what they...
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/12/mac-studio-with-512gb-ram-delivery-delayhttps://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1j8r2nr/m3_ultra_512gb_does_18ts_with_deepseek_r1_671b_q4/https://x.com/alexocheema/status/1899735281781411907 Whoever says Apple is not focused on AI, you are wrong. Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB is the proof of that. A big leap from maximum 196GB RAM of...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/26/infosec_bytes Still very much about open vs closed systems. Who can govern the way we use our tools? Government? Company? Users? AI will be able to help with filtering obvious...
https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/elon-musks-grok-3-model-impresses-but-early-reactions-suggest-openai-remains-ahead/https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/elon-musk-promised-grok-3-would-be-the-smartest-ai-ever-spoiler-alert-it-wasnthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-EjgX40O4 Grok 3 is out. Elon and his xAI team is claiming that it beats GPT-4o and all other models out there, including an impressive win in Chatbot Arena. But...
It is an interesting topic to discuss. What are we limited by? You are only expert, if at all, in a very small number of domains. And even that, there...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx27zwp7jpxo Not saying that BBC shouldn’t care about the AI summary showing false “information”. In the ideal world, we want all automated summaries to be accurate too, to take it...
Summary: AI’s impact on future education necessitates a shift from standardized learning to personalized approaches that foster creativity, critical thinking, and ethical understanding, preparing students for an AI-driven world. What...
You probably don’t need to know how the maths behind AI works, but it is a good idea to know that current “generation” (or buzz) of AI is mainly based...
https://fortune.com/2024/08/06/mit-economist-markets-overestimated-ai-driven-productivity-gains/
https://llama.meta.comhttps://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct Do I need any other excuse to buy a better Mac Studio? 🙂
Just starting this page to share what AI tools I have been playing with. Kind of a journal, but might write up separate articles if I end up using any...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/openai-gpt4o-siri-iphone/678371/ It is funny to see how tech media seems to think Apple is totally out of the AI game. “OpenAI just killed Siri”? As if Apple will just give...
https://qz.com/google-spend-100-billion-ai-development-deepmind-ceo-1851412787 Google, Microsoft and others are spending big money on AI. Can startups still compete? Or are they better off waiting for the big boys to train these models and...
