2024 promised AI breakthroughs around every corner yet surprisingly few materialized. Local models caught up with last year's frontier but goal posts have moved. Test-time scaling opened new possibilities. Overall there is a certain bittersweetness to AI progress.

Not exactly sure why I felt like reviving this blog after 10 months but here we are : discussing Entropix, the competitive dynamics in Big Tech (in particular Meta, Google and Microsoft) and what it means for the broader ecosystem

After an eventful 2023, what should we expect for 2024? Progress in natural language processing will undoubtedly continue but, for the public, 2024 should be the year of truly multimodal “artificial intelligence". In this last blog post of the year, we focus on applications that are not purely text-to-text so you can set your...

Large Language Models revolve around “language” so imply countries and regions. But also regulations. And geopolitics. Now that the Global AI Summit is behind us, we can address these aspects.

Four months after our last post on this blog, there is a lot to catch-up on. The Tech industry has been very active in terms of developments, and in terms of M&A. Let's start with an overview of the ecosystem and its recent evolutions.

The entire tech world was expected to shift to VR after Apple’s announcement of a mixed reality headset for 2024. It’s happening and before the tide completely turns, we needed to clean up the bookmarks of the past few weeks. Here are our key takeaways on Creativity, Gaming, Business, Open-Source, Security and Regulations

Some of the interesting themes that deserve to be covered… before they become irrelevant. Robots, NeRF, OpenAi’s code interpreter, AI alignement, Google’s moat (or lack of), open-sourcing, LLM’s context length and Apple as a financial institution

After weeks of AI-hype, it is tempting to search for weak signals elsewhere in order to find refreshing news. Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality looks like the next trending topic given recent leaps in both hardware and software, yet discussing an potential AR/VR-summer seems premature. So let’s focus on important AI-related...

As developers and researchers continue to showcase LLMs’ strengths and work around weaknesses, AI’s immediate opportunities and threats become more tangible. The debate around AGI’s existential risk heated up last week but, for the foreseeable future, AI-risk will primarily be a “AI-augmented human” risk. Last week, the publi...

Last week was certainly not as dense as the previous ones in terms of releases of paradigm-shifting tech, but it was by no means a quiet week : the debate around AI safety was taken mainstream and sometimes turned really ugly. As always, we try to abstract the noise and flesh out important themes, key questions, and critical...

Until two weeks ago, the immediate future was all about engineering prompts, fine-tuning LLMs and hooking them to other apps in order to, eventually, get to human-like abilities in specific niches. Since then, Microsoft has issued a 150-page report claiming that AGI is here.

Last week, a number of LLMs releases and technical breakthroughs refined the picture of society in an era of commoditized AI. And it became clear that major disruptions in our day-to-day lives are only months away, starting with our workplaces.

Last week-end, while the entire Tech world seemed focused on Silicon Valley Bank’s receivership, a number of interesting developments went relatively unnoticed. One breakthrough, one question and one lesson from the week end.