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Marcus Schuler

Marcus Schuler

AI Gets Emotional, Zuck Gets Ambitious: Silicon Valley’s New Love Triangle 🤖❤️📱

AI Gets Emotional, Zuck Gets Ambitious: Silicon Valley’s New Love Triangle 🤖❤️📱

Good morning from San Francisco, 🌉☕️🌤 Where today's AI news feels like a relationship update: complicated. 🤖❤️🤷‍♂️ OpenAI just dropped GPT-4.5—an emotionally intelligent giant that's empathetic enough to ask how your day's going, yet struggles to match its predecessors' brainpower. Think therapist, not

Beyond Size: GPT-4.5 Signals OpenAI's Shifting Strategy

Beyond Size: GPT-4.5 Signals OpenAI's Shifting Strategy

OpenAI's newest release marks a pivotal moment in AI development - but not for the reasons you might expect. The Price of Progress GPT-4.5, released Thursday as a research preview, comes with an eye-watering price tag. At $75 per million input tokens and $150 per million output

New AI Model Masters the Art of Digital Sweet Talk

New AI Model Masters the Art of Digital Sweet Talk

OpenAI just dropped GPT-4.5, and it's got a peculiar talent: sweet-talking other AIs into giving up their virtual cash. The Art of Digital Persuasion The company's newest language model excels at something unexpected. It's remarkably good at persuading other AI systems, particularly when

Nvidia's CEO: Next-Gen AI Will Devour More Chips Than Ever

Nvidia's CEO: Next-Gen AI Will Devour More Chips Than Ever

Jensen Huang just dropped a bombshell about artificial intelligence: it's getting really hungry. The Nvidia CEO says next-generation AI models need 100 times more computing power than their predecessors. Why? Because they're learning to think step by step, just like your high school math teacher always

AWS Joins Quantum Race with a Cost-Cutting Twist

AWS Joins Quantum Race with a Cost-Cutting Twist

Amazon's cloud division just unveiled its first quantum chip, arriving fashionably late to Silicon Valley's latest tech party. They named it Ocelot, combining their love for cats and oscillators in one puzzling portmanteau. The timing is pointed. Google and Microsoft flaunted their quantum hardware recently, making

AI Giants in the Spotlight: Drama, Glory, and Growing Pains

AI Giants in the Spotlight: Drama, Glory, and Growing Pains

Good morning from San Francisco, While Nvidia swims in a $39 billion revenue pool and Amazon tries to teach old Alexa new AI tricks, Anthropic's latest AI star is having a rough debut. 🤖 Claude 3.7's extended thinking mode turns out to be more "extended

Limited usability: Why Anthropic's Claude 3.7 disappoints

Limited usability: Why Anthropic's Claude 3.7 disappoints

Anthropic's Claude 3.7 launched with fanfare but quickly hit turbulence. Users report persistent technical issues hampering daily use. Extended thinking mode, touted as a breakthrough feature, creates more problems than solutions for many. The feature overcomplicates simple tasks while burning through valuable time. Despite efforts to enhance