by Jonathan | Apr 1, 2025 | AI
First, some notes on Gemini as I posted them to my Slack group: Last week Google released Gemini 2.5. Free on their AI studio website if you don’t mind them training on your chats. In the API, Gemini has a context window of 2,000,000 tokens, about 1,500,000 words....
by Jonathan | Apr 1, 2025 | Big Tech
The Information reports that Google is removing language from studies, even old ones, or telling researchers to restrict access to such documents. This is a clear example of government pressure leading to self-censorship like we are used to seeing China. Two imporant...
by Jonathan | Mar 14, 2025 | AI
The Information is reporting that some DeepSeek employees are no longer allowed to travel after the company’s rise to fame. “Management asked some staff to hand in their passports, the three people said.” This is a part of why I’m bearish on...
by Jonathan | Feb 24, 2025 | AI
This gem came in my inbox this morning from The Information: Still, OpenAI’s business dwarfs competitors like Cohere and Mistral. OpenAI is expecting to more than triple revenue this year, from $3.7 billion to $12.7 billion, we scooped Friday. OpenAI told...
by Jonathan | Feb 18, 2025 | Politics
The WSJ is out with an article on Feb 17, 2025, that a focus group they are tracking already has some Trump voters showing regret. One voter: “Now I’m like: ‘Dang, why didn’t I just pick Kamala?’” And another: Anderson, who works with disabled adults, said Kennedy’s...