Part of my side-project s codebase uses Flan T5 XL for some generative tasks. Flan T5 is an LLM that was released in October 2022. The XL version that I use has 3 billion parameters. Might sound like a lot but it s small by modern standards. Kimi K3 has 2.8 trillion parameters. It has been hogging [ ]
Syracuse Company News has been working really well on company news (better than the alternatives), but on industry news it hasn’t been so strong . It has been improving so I asked Claude Opus 4.8 to review Syracuse’s performance on industry news since March based on the stats in the benchmark that compares Syracuse with Exa, Linkup, Perplexity and Tavily. Here is what it had to say: Industry News…
Seems like a good guideline for working in this wacky world of AI. The context: This is about my side project, Syracuse Company News (https://syracuse.1145.am). It s a structured company news provider that you can plug your agent into and be confident you re getting decent quality results with less risk of false positives / irrelevant stories [ ]
It’s well-documented that Gen Z / Gen Alpha are not exactly fans of AI. And that older professionals can’t live without it. My own 9 year-old kid has told me that games made with AI are terrible and that “we can’t ask AI, it lies” (in the case we were talking about, it did lie). [ ]
I received two newsletter subscriptions within an hour of each other today regarding Anthropic s new Mythos-class AI model, named Fable. First, Ethan Mollick getting blown away by Fable s capabilities, then Gary Marcus being a lot more cynical about Anthropic s expert media manipulation. Ethan Mollick got Fable to do some truly exceptional stuff. And he writes [ ]
Joe Moura, CEO at Crew AI If it s a problem that the system gives a different answer each time, then maybe it shouldn t be an agent. This one cuts through a lot of the hype. Agents are amazing at many things, but it doesn t mean they are the right tool for everything. Business systems need [ ]
Working with Claude Code makes me feel like I m in Memento, the 2000 film about someone trying to solve a mystery. The twist is that he can t make new memories. Every time he figures out something he has to resort to a patchwork of notes and tattoos so he has something to start from next [ ]
I built a company-news API and I wanted to know whether it was better than the alternatives. The problem: I m the author, so I m biased. I wanted to use an LLM as the judge, which makes it worse, because a model that recognises my product (and works out it s being scored on behalf of its [ ]
I found myself talking to two different data leaders last week in two different places. Two different leaders who work in completely different areas. Completely different. Yet they both used the same word to describe a great data person: Curiosity . A curious data person is someone who spends time in the data, finds interesting patterns [ ]
The death of SaaS in the age of AI e.g. people building and running their own CRM systems rather than using Salesforce is overstated. I think we are more in a pause-calypse than an apocalypse. The hype is overbearing. There is no end of people writing about the business they launched last weekend [ ]