Jim Griffin
December 12, 2024
This video explains why this week’s announcement of Google’s Willow Quantum Computer is significant, starting with the fact that Willow was able to solve an exceedingly complex problem in under 5 minutes that the world’s fastest traditional supercomputer could not to solve at all – even if given all the […]
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 14, 2024
This is a special edition of the ‘AI World’ video series covering the release of OpenAI-o1 (alias Q* and Strawberry). By whatever name, this is a very powerful new kind of model that has demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities. The video starts with a look back in time at “Move 37” […]
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
September 5, 2024
The developers at MeshAnything have just released new code that offers an important improvement in how the surface of 3D objects can be encoded. What the new method does is build out the shape by always seeking to find and encode an adjacent face that shares an edge, which requires […]
Jim Griffin
August 26, 2024
Google DeepMind has just achieved a new level of robotic skill – the ability to compete and win at table tennis, a game that requires years of training for people who want compete at an expert level. This video shows the robot in action against an array of competitors, ranging […]
Jim Griffin
August 8, 2024
AI has just achieved an amazing milestone. A couple of Alpha models by Google DeepMind scored silver-medal-level performance in a globally-recognized competition in advanced mathematics: IMO 2004. This video starts by setting the context for this latest achievement, going back to significant milestones in 2022 and 2023 that helped set […]