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Gemini 3.7 Flash: not the smartest, and it does not need to be
It shipped, and it retired a version that was three weeks old. It will not write your quantum physics thesis, and that is not a fault.
Tagged Language models
Practical notes on AI in the workplace, written from the training room, not from a press release.
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Ten open maths problems fell overnight, for two thousand dollars
Andrew Wiles wept after seven years of isolation solving Fermat. Keep that image, because it now belongs to the past.
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Three billion downloads: how Qwen took the open world
Google 418 million. Meta 227 million. Qwen three billion. That is not a lead. It is a gap nobody closes.
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Ten trillion parameters: does size buy the lead?
ByteDance is training a ten trillion parameter model while OpenAI's strongest are believed to sit under five. My view is that it will not be enough.
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A blind robot learned to skateboard, without a single camera
A wooden deck, four wheels, and a metal body with no eyes. They stripped its vision deliberately, and it developed something like our own proprioception.
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An exoskeleton for walking, not for rehabilitation
Exoskeletons just left the hospital and the factory for the mountains. The device predicts your movement before it completes, and pushes with you.
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Agent memory: an employee with amnesia every morning
An agent without memory is an excellent colleague who forgets everything overnight. The limit is not its intelligence. It is that you reintroduce yourself daily.
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Token economics for managers: the bill explodes in month three
An AI bill does not explode on the day you buy. It explodes in month three, when the project succeeds. Here is the arithmetic no vendor explains.
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Sovereign AI: why nations want models of their own
A quiet race is running in the region that will decide who owns the "mind" of the Arabic language. And the question is less technical than it is about who decides what is true.
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