Google has impressed me the most so far this year. In 2014, Google bought DeepMind for $650 million. A purchase price that seems laughably low today and has already paid off many times over. The innovations and breathtaking developments that DeepMind regularly comes up with
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China’s Qwen3 Outpaces GPT-5 with 1M Token Context
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While the discussion continues about whether GPT-5 meets expectations and also (as said in the Reddit AMA by Sam Altman) whether 256k context is enough or not – China enables up to 1m token context with their Qwen3 30b. China is delivering every day.
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Managing a Fast-Growing AI Newsletter with 230,000 Subscribers
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When Dan and Peter approached me some time ago and asked me if I would be interested in writing and curating an AI newsletter as the main person responsible, I was overwhelmed. Even then, it was relatively large—and now we have almost 230,000 subscribers. From Monday to
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Reddit AMA with OpenAI Expected to Face Critical Questions
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Holy moly, the Reddit AMA with OpenAI is going to be a mess. The most upvoted comments are consistently dissatisfied, ask very critical questions and reflect the general mood. I think it's very good that there is so much critical demand – and I'm really looking forward to
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xAI Plans to Introduce Ads in Grok Responses
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First mover: xAI plans to introduce ads in Groks responses. Tbh it was just a matter of time. Do I like it? Not at all. I prefer subscriptions over ads. And it costs trust. Depending on the type of development, it can lead to a loss of trust in AI because you always have the
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Reduced Hallucination in AI Models Remains Underappreciated Topic
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Good point. Much reduced hallucination is so underrated. I don't understand why so few people talk about it.
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GPT-5 Release Meets Expectations But Shows Disappointing Aspects
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My take: it meets my expectations exactly. Since there was a lot of discussion about GPT-5 beforehand, my expectations are pretty much in line with how it was finally released. At the same time, there are things that disappoint me and are underwhelming (instruction following,
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GPT-5 Performance Assessment: Expectations vs Reality
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GPT-5: did it exceed, meet or fall short of your expectations? Please feel free to provide arguments 🙂
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Reddit’s Growing Dominance as AI Data Source and Google Search Results
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Reddit became the largest datasource for AI. It is one of the best curated forums in the world, and there is extensive discussion. What surprises me, however, is how much more visibility Google has given Reddit. It feels like every search query now points to Reddit in some way.
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Testing o3 Performance Against Itself for Comparison
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o3 was already outstanding. I need to do more testing to see if it is better than o3 in my experience.