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A next-gen marketing and communications agency from @alexvoica.com experimenting at the edge of story, strategy, and emerging tech
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A lot has been written about the Make It Fair campaign launched by representatives of the UK creative industry earlier this week.

I look at the solutions proposed by @ukdayone.bsky.social One, @imogenheapsort.bsky.social , and @johnthornhill.bsky.social:

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How restrictive AI regulation could lead to low-resource cultures; Nvidia maintains lead in AI thanks to great chip design; the AI coding apocalypse; "AI inspo" arrives in hair salons
Abu Dhabi’s Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan emerges as an AI power player; Amazon's savings with warehouse automation can fuel its AI spending; Europe introduces new AI weather forecasting system
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February 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Elon Musk recently said that superintelligence will be among the top 10 most important milestones in the history of life on Earth.

I explain the consequences of his statement in this week's @computerspeak.co newsletter:

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Will AGI transform humanity into a multiplanetary species? AI is changing Silicon Valley startups; AWS is playing the long game on AI; there's a reason AI model names are weird; AI cheats at chess
Can AI predict the next big IPO? how AI can protect vital infrastructure deep in the ocean; OpenAI seeks new powers to fend off hostile takeovers; Google's AI efforts impacted by internal bureaucracy
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February 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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For more than two years, we’ve had to endure the droning of a vocal group who have hijacked the public discourse around generative AI.

Thankfully, at the #AIActionSummit in Paris, we've finally said adieu et à bientôt to most of them:

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RIP to the AI grift industrial complex; chatbots are changing companionship; "vibe coding" is now a thing; Gen Z turns towards AI-powered search; the Anthropic Economic Index shows AI usage around the
AI crawlers threaten to make the internet more closed; new research could shape our chatbots' political preferences; AI is more empathetic than a customer support agent;
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February 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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In this week's @computerspeak.co newsletter, I look at four developments from the world of reasoning models, and how they challenge the established narrative around AI agents:

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Are reasoning models becoming sounding boards for human thought? inside France’s effort to shape the AI conversation; Amazon is working on a smarter Alexa; SoftBank and OpenAI bet on each other
European startups embrace DeepSeek despite risks; an AI founder’s struggle to buy out his investors; no one knows how to price AI tools; AI-native companies think, act and grow differently
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February 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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When DeepSeek released R1, a well-performing open weights reasoning model, the response from many in the American media and industry was to frame it as the latest salvo in the US-China "AI war."

For @computerspeak.co, my AI avatar explains why that framing is unhelpful 👇

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DeepSeek brings out the war hawks and Cold War rhetoric
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February 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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This was a productive week for people keen to share cringe geopolitical takes on X, many of whom positioned @deepseeks.bsky.social's new R1 model as a "Sputnik moment" in a zero-sum war between the United States and China:

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DeepSeek brings out the war hawks and Cold War rhetoric; at Davos, AI leaders clash over safety and $100bn Stargate project; AI is still top of mind for leaders in 2025
India races to build its own AI industry; has Europe missed its big AI moment?; an AI-powered robot is helping scientists identify deep sea species
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January 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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The Stargate Project is a new company set to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build AI infrastructure in the United States.

So what exactly does that get you in terms of real-world infrastructure? We do the math in this week’s @computerspeak.co

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Doing the math on the Stargate Project; Yann LeCun predicts new AI paradigm in five years; revenue is booming for AI startups; game developers push back against AI projects
Immigrant AI workers worry about the new US administration; Huawei aims to replace NVIDIA in China; the second wave of AI coding is here;
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January 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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When Mark Zuckerberg went on the Joe Rogan podcast last week, he tried to explain how Meta will reduce the number of mistakes the company makes when moderating content using classifiers.

For @computerspeak.co, I provide a better explanation - with trees! 🌲🌲🌲

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Dealing with precision in AI classifiers for content moderation; inside Meta's race to catch up with OpenAI; how AI is transforming business; can someone fall in love with ChatGPT?
Gross AI kissing apps are going mainstream; most Americans use AI but dislike it; UK's plan to become an AI superpower; YouTubers sell unused footage for training data; Alexa gets a gen AI upgrade
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January 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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A new AI model called GET (General Expression Transformer) detailed in a @nature.com paper this week by researchers from MBZUAI, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social and @carnegiemellon.bsky.social promises to rewrite the rulebook for gene transcriptional regulation:

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GET is a new model for understanding human biology; China is advancing in AI despite US restrictions; AI users on social media is not a totally dumb idea; Google wants to simulate the physical world
AI startups drive VC resurgence; five real-world early uses of AI agents; how AI regulation will shake out in 2025; Sam Altman's big Bloomberg interview; AI is bringing the end of search as we know it
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January 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Redbournbury Watermill is the last working mill on river Ver, just between Redbourn and St Albans. It produces a range of stoneground organic flours principally from locally grown grains.

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Redbournbury Mill, the last working mill on river Ver
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January 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Learn about the village of Babraham and its rich history from this video presented by @alexvoica.com

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An overview of Babraham village in Cambridgeshire
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January 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Redbourn is one of Hertfordshire's hidden gems.

@alexvoica.com has all the facts about the village and civil parish 👇

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A history of Redbourn village in Hertfordshire
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January 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Here's an example for how short-form video can be a more effective way of communication compared to text or images.

I've used @synthesia.io to create a one-minute introductory video about myself and then posted it as the welcome message on my website alexvoica.com
Alexandru-Cosmin Voica | alexvoica.com
The portfolio website for Alexandru-Cosmin Voica (Alexandru Voica), a communications professional passionate about tech, maple syrup, peanut butter, and Guns N' Roses.
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December 30, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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A new report from MMC Ventures discusses the ethical challenges of training AI models, drawing parallels between today's data gathering practices and the Napster-to-Spotify transition.

I break it down in @computerspeak.co:

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How gen AI is moving from the Napster to the Spotify era; Trump eyes AI czar; we need a better way to benchmark AI models; new competitors emerge to OpenAI's o1; artists leak Sora in protest
Stanford publishes their Global AI Power Rankings; Amazon's plan to compete with Nvidia in chips; do you need coders in an AI world? AI's scientific path; Uber starts an AI outsourcing business;
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November 29, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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Multiples used to be a safe metric for investors to compare a company to other businesses. But with AI companies, multiples are no longer an option.

I explain why in this week's @computerspeak.co:

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Two years on from ChatGPT, AI valuations are still a murky business; Fortune reveals this year's AI innovators; the NBA steps up its social game with AI; Microsoft brings voice cloning to Teams
Niantic is building a large geospatial model; business spending on AI surged 5x this year; how Meta rebuilt itself around Llama; inside Amazon's efforts to revitalize Alexa
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November 22, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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X-Portrait 2 from ByteDance is the latest among a string of portrait animation models that have trended on social media over the last few months.

How do they work and what are they useful for? Read (and watch!) this week's Computerspeak to find out

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ByteDance's new AI turns photos into movie sequences; Mistral launches a content moderation API; Walt Disney forms new AI business unit; Saudi to invest $100b in AI through "Project Transcendence"
UK launches business-oriented AI safety platform; VCs warn AI startups to prioritize revenue in 2025; there's a strong community of women building AI startups; AI chatbots are the new priests
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November 8, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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I wrote about why Big Tech is pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI:

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Investors start asking hard questions about AI; Alexa's new brain is stuck in the lab; Arm may be the unexpected winner of the AI boom; meet the AI "super users"
Middle East wants to become the next global AI hub; what teens think of AI; AI automation comes for salespeople and recruiters; Meta takes on Perplexity; Visa finds hundreds of use cases for AI;
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November 1, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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I spoke to @businessinsider.com about the future of large language models: www.businessinsider.com/generative-a...

You can also read a longer, unedited version of my thoughts here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...
How close are we to peak AI?
Since the release of OpenAI's GPT-4 in March, no AI model from Google or elsewhere has been able to outperform it convincingly.
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December 21, 2023 at 3:35 PM
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Every week I send an army of computers to search the depths of the internet and bring you the most comprehensive selection of AI-related news, carefully arranged in a Substack newsletter.

Have a look and subscribe: computerspeak.substack.com
Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica | Substack
A weekly newsletter focused on AI and emerging technologies. Click to read Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica, a Substack publication. Launched 12 days ago.
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December 14, 2023 at 9:07 AM
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I'm launching a weekly newsletter on Substack!

It's called Computerspeak and it will provide a space where I can highlight nuanced press coverage and public conversation about AI and other emerging technologies plus the challenges facing the technology industry right now: computerspeak.substack.com
Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica | Substack
A weekly newsletter focused on AI and emerging technologies. Click to read Computerspeak by Alexandru Voica, a Substack publication. Launched 5 days ago.
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December 7, 2023 at 12:07 PM
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Today, I'm so excited to launch the website for my social-first content agency Black Knight Entertainment: blackknight-ltd.com

Check it out and give it a follow at @blackknightltd.bsky.social
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December 5, 2023 at 5:20 PM
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Researchers at OpenAI, Meta, Google and other AI labs are working on integrating a "world model" to today's large language models.

Here's why this approach provides a promising path toward less brittle, more broadly intelligent AI: www.tiktok.com/@alexcvoica/...
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Today marks the one year anniversary since the launch of ChatGPT. While the underlying large language models powering chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude or Pi demonstrate impressive linguistic abilities, t...
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November 30, 2023 at 5:29 PM