• The Most Important Chart in Tech

    By Kerry Robinson It’s been called the most important chart in tech. But what does it mean? The two charts simply show the performance of OpenAI’s o1 model on the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) benchmark. As you move to the right, the amount of computation used goes up, but so does the performance. The left…Read More

  • Exploring Latent space

    By Kerry Robinson I remember when I first played with a ‘word embedding’ model. You gave it a word, and got back a list of numbers. The embedding. But you could do math with those numbers, too. Take the numbers for King, subtract Man, and add Woman, and you’d get a set of numbers that were…Read More

  • Klarna’s AI Strategy: A New Era for Human Engagement

    By Kerry Robinson “We just had an epiphany: in a world of AI nothing will be as valuable as humans!” That was a comment by Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the CEO and co-founder of Klarna. Klarna used to be the poster child for going all-in on AI. They boasted that their OpenAI-powered assistant was handling two-thirds of customer…Read More