Jim Griffin
December 5, 2024
This video is our second annual forecast for key trends or developments most likely to define the coming year for AI in the private sector. By far, the biggest one is AI agents. If we had to choose just one development that is set to define AI next year, this […]
Jim Griffin
November 28, 2024
Since the architecture for the powerful o1 reasoning model from OpenAI has not been disclosed, there’s a lot of curiosity about how it works. To get a better understanding of that, this video pulls together information from OpenAI itself, along with systematic tests that were published in a recent paper […]
Jim Griffin
November 28, 2024
Andrew Ng was the keynote speaker last week on Day Two of the Snowflake BUILD conference, and in that talk, he shared results from testing different kinds of agentic workflows on the Human Eval benchmark. This video is a deep dive into those test results, paying particular attention to the […]
Jim Griffin
November 7, 2024
This video describes how a system called ‘AgentStore’ was able to gain the top spot on a benchmark for AI agents – beating out a gigantic model with a small one. AgentStore is a platform and method for aggregating specialized agents that perform real-world tasks on digital devices on macOS, […]
Jim Griffin
August 1, 2024
Last week Meta launched its newest family of models, Llama 3.1, including a new benchmark – an open-source foundation model with 405 billion parameters. With this, Zuckerberg predicted that Meta AI will surpass OpenAI’s 200 million monthly active users by the end of this year. Hubris aside, this video looks […]
Jim Griffin
July 17, 2024
A top researcher at Google DeepMind just released an important paper, “Mixture of a Million Experts.” As the paper’s title announces, it describes an approach that resulted in the first-known Transformer model with more than a million experts. For context, the number of experts currently seen in smaller models varies […]
Jim Griffin
July 12, 2024
The recent announcement of Figma AI generated both excitement and controversy. This video summarizes the new AI features in under three minutes, for this popular design tool that’s used for creating prototypes of digital experiences. Next, the video looks at the underlying technology that was used to enable the new […]
Jim Griffin
June 26, 2024
There’s a big breakthrough that just came out for handling large language models on smartphones. It’s called PowerInfer-2 and what it does is look at every option for a processing an LLM on a particular smartphone, and picks the fastest way for that particular LLM on that particular device. For […]