Alex Banks

2 weeks ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

My top-3 picks of AI news this week. Mark Zuckerberg on Llama, AI, & Minus One / South Park CommonsMeta1. Meta's Llama 4 Herd Meta has released the first Llama 4 models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, with significant improvements in architecture, performance, and multimodal capabilities: Record-breaking context: Llama 4 Scout offers an industry-leading 10M token context window (up from 128K in Llama 3), enabling multi-document reasoning and extensive code analysis.

3 weeks ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

My top-3 picks of AI news this week. Introducing 4o Image Generation / OpenAIOpenAI1. GPT-4o Image Mania OpenAI has blown up social media this week with their latest GPT-4o image generator that has everyone talking. They’ve integrated advanced image-generation capabilities directly into ChatGPT, and the results are genuinely impressive.

1 month ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

My top-3 picks of AI news this week. Jensen Huang (CEO of Nvidia) / GTC March 2025 KeynoteNvidia1. Biggest updates from Nvidia’s GTC 2025 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote unveiled a series of major announcements spanning AI acceleration, robotics, and autonomous systems. Blackwell Ultra: Coming in H2 2025, offering the same 20 petaflops of AI performance as standard Blackwell but with 288GB of memory (up from 192GB), enhancing AI inference capabilities.

1 month ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

My top-3 picks of AI news this week. OpenAI’s new tools for building agents / XOpenAI1. OpenAI's Agent Acceleration OpenAI has unveiled a comprehensive suite of tools for developers to build sophisticated multi-agent systems with unprecedented speed and efficiency. Agent Tools Trifecta: Three powerful new tools including Web Search Tool for accessing up-to-date internet information, File Search Tool for advanced RAG applications, and Computer Use Tool for programmatic computer control.

1 month ago | thesignal.so | Alex Banks

My top-3 picks of AI news this week. Google1. Google’s AI is After Perplexity Google is rolling out significant AI enhancements, including “AI Mode” and a new embedding model, with a focus on making AI more accessible and practical for everyday use. AI Mode in Search: A new experiment that expands on AI Overviews with advanced reasoning capabilities, allowing users to ask anything and engage in follow-up questions with helpful web links.