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An Exciting Week for AI Tools

An Exciting Week for AI Tools

OK, so Gemini 3 and Antigravity are very cool — particularly for folks trying to vibe code things into production. Antigravity can take control of a browser…

The Weekend I Finally Installed Claude Code

The Weekend I Finally Installed Claude Code

I'd been watching Claude Code from a distance for three months. It launched in February as a "research preview" — a terminal-only tool that let an AI read your…

Trying Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced

Trying Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced

I'm using Gemini 2.0 Experimental Advanced on my personal account, and I'll admit it up front: Ragu can't wait for this model to be available through the API.…

Local AI Is Coming to Your Phone

Local AI Is Coming to Your Phone

Reading through OpenAI's summary of GPT-4o today, what I find most interesting is something Sam Altman said in an interview on Friday: that algorithmic…

AI's Haves and Have-Nots

AI's Haves and Have-Nots

We may be entering a "haves" and "have-nots" split in business — one that unfolds dramatically in front of all of us in the next couple of years. Two documents…

LLMs Working Together

LLMs Working Together

I've been liking Gemini. Google opened Gemini 1.5 Pro to developers in 180-plus countries on Tuesday, in public preview, with the million-token context window…

Groq and using LLMs as logic engines, not knowledge bases

Groq and using LLMs as logic engines, not knowledge bases

Groq.com — holy cow. Maybe I'm late to the game, but this is incredible: LLM response times in the milliseconds. I've been spouting on for a while about using…

Launching Ragu.AI

Launching Ragu.AI

I've been quiet for a while, as the old guard will have noticed. Time for a reveal. A group of us have been very busy building — with the help of many more…

From Mockup to Working Code

From Mockup to Working Code

There's an interesting release at Hugging Face: screenshot2html. You hand it a picture of a web page and it hands you back the HTML. We're finally reaching the…

Gemini Pro Is Good — But GPT-4 Still Thinks Different

Gemini Pro Is Good — But GPT-4 Still Thinks Different

I ran off for a bit — honeymoon, which rocked — and I've only just had a chance to catch up. So this morning I spent two hours in conversation with Bard, which…

OpenAI DevDay Supercharged My AI Assistant

OpenAI DevDay Supercharged My AI Assistant

Super awesome updates today, in my opinion. Of everything OpenAI announced at its first DevDay, I'm most excited about two things: the extraordinary new size…

A New Paradigm for 2nd-Wave AI Entrepreneurs

A New Paradigm for 2nd-Wave AI Entrepreneurs

Early AI development deterred entrepreneurs. Build a "wrapper" around OpenAI and you risked obsolescence with no competitive edge. Aim at something more…