Anthropic, the AI firm, has unveiled two new artificial intelligence models—Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4—touting them as the most advanced systems in the industry. Built with enhanced reasoning capabilities, the new models are aimed at improving code generation and supporting agent-style workflows, particularly for developers engaged in complex and extended tasks. “Claude Opus…
This was the subject of a spirited conversation I had in February 2024 with Andy Konwinski, a former student of mine and the co-founder of two AI-related startups, Databricks and Perplexity. Andy shared his disbelief that a friend’s son had dropped out of his computer-science programme. This bright student believed AI would soon make programmers…
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI, took to X to highlight two crucial factors that have significantly improved the user experience (UX) and trust in AI products. According to Srinivas, the key drivers behind this transformation are the integration of sources (citations) and reasoning traces (chain of thought) within AI systems. Srinivas’ remarks come at…
Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2025 has completed two days of revolutionary launches and announcements from top global companies and brands. This is one of the biggest tech events as companies showcase their new innovations and plans for the future. While experiencing new technology on the ground could be quite thrilling, but catching up on news…
ANYONE CAN spot a tipping point after it’s been crossed. Also known as critical transitions, such mathematical cliff-edges influence everything from the behaviour of financial markets and the spread of disease to the extinction of species. The financial crisis of 2007-09 is often described as one. So is the moment that covid-19 went global. The…
