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We’re hosting a happy hour for DC-area readers of Understanding AI (and listeners to my podcast, AI Summer) on June 23 at The Crown & Crow. We’ll start at 5:30pm, and I expect to stay until 8:00pm. We’d love to see you.
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Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding
But neither one is all that good.
On Tuesday, Anthropic released two new models — Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5. Under the hood, the two models are very similar. Both are variants of Claude Mythos Preview, the model Anthropic announce...
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OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths
Last week, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 years.
OpenAI gave several mathematicians e...
Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car
Tensor let me sit in their driverless car. It might go on sale in the US next year.
Last month I got to check out a self-driving car unlike any I’d seen before. The roof had a Waymo-like rack of sensors. Inside, the doors had small video s...
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