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The Real Cost of "Free" AI — And Why Open Source LLMs Deserve Your Attention

The Real Cost of "Free" AI — And Why Open Source LLMs Deserve Your Attention

I've been thinking about something that's bugging me, and I think it's worth saying out loud: if you're still using ChatGPT without a paid subscription, you're…

Can AI Beat the Quants at Sentiment Analysis?

Can AI Beat the Quants at Sentiment Analysis?

I've been thinking a lot about where AI fits into the trading world — specifically, whether large language models can actually compete with quantitative…

Why AI Chatbots Still Can't Close a Sale — The Hybrid Fix

Why AI Chatbots Still Can't Close a Sale — The Hybrid Fix

I've been deep in the weeds on something that sounds simple but turns out to be genuinely hard: getting an AI chatbot to guide a customer toward a purchase…

Vector Databases Are the Infrastructure Play

Vector Databases Are the Infrastructure Play

I've been spending a lot of time thinking about the infrastructure layer beneath all these AI applications everyone's building. And this week, something…

Function Calling — Two AIs Can Now Work Together and Take Action

Function Calling — Two AIs Can Now Work Together and Take Action

I'm just taking a moment to digest all the news from last week. And honestly, if you're building anything with AI right now, you should too — because the…

Multi-LLM Agent Collaboration Is the Next Big Leap

Multi-LLM Agent Collaboration Is the Next Big Leap

I've been deep in the weeds on agentic AI for a while now — if you've followed my earlier posts on AutoGPT, you know I'm not just theorizing about this stuff.…

OpenAI Added Function Calling to GPT-4 — This Is the Real AI Integration Unlock

OpenAI Added Function Calling to GPT-4 — This Is the Real AI Integration Unlock

I'm a little late on this one — sorry if you've already seen it — but OpenAI just dropped something that I think is going to be a much bigger deal than the…

Real-Time AI Content That Watches You Back — The Missing Piece in Generative Media

Real-Time AI Content That Watches You Back — The Missing Piece in Generative Media

Runway Gen2 dropped this week, and I've been playing with it all morning. I generated a pretty fantastic little video from nothing but a text prompt — and if…

The Intermediate Observer Layer — Why Your AI Needs a Manager Before It Needs More Tools

The Intermediate Observer Layer — Why Your AI Needs a Manager Before It Needs More Tools

There's a pattern I keep seeing in the AI space right now, and it's driving me a little crazy. Everyone's racing to bolt more tools onto GPT — Salesforce…

The Programming Prompt Is Everything — Why Knowledge Ingestion Lives or Dies By It

The Programming Prompt Is Everything — Why Knowledge Ingestion Lives or Dies By It

I've been saying for weeks that knowledge ingestion is the killer AI app nobody's talking about. Well, now I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I've been…

AI-Generated QR Codes, Predictive Eye Tracking, and the Week AI Got Weird

AI-Generated QR Codes, Predictive Eye Tracking, and the Week AI Got Weird

I've been watching AI developments pretty closely for a while now, and this week might be one of the strangest in terms of sheer range. We've got QR codes that…

We Built a PDF-to-AI Engine With Unlimited Memory

We Built a PDF-to-AI Engine With Unlimited Memory

I've been thinking about knowledge ingestion as the killer AI app for a while now. This week, that idea stopped being theoretical. A small team I've been…