Charlie Guo

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AI Roundup 117: Google Killer

6 days ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

The DOJ's antitrust case against Google continues to generate new revelations about Big Tech. For example, Apple's Eddy Cue shared that Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month: "That has never happened in 22 years."Why it matters:Cue connected the numbers dip to the increased use of AI, which Apple is now considering adding to Safari (for what it's worth, Google stated that overall searches are still growing, but no mention of Safari).
The $3 Billion IDE

1 week ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

OpenAI is reportedly finalizing its acquisition of Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for approximately $3 billion - an enormous sum for a company that's only a few years old. But the deal - OpenAI's largest to date - has raised quite a few questions, the biggest being: Why is an AI code editor worth three billion dollars? Rumors of this deal have been swirling for weeks, with Bloomberg being the latest to offer all-but-confirmation of the acquisition.
AI Roundup 116: LlamaCon / Meta AI

1 week ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Meta came out with a one-two punch this week, first showcasing several developer-oriented features at its inaugural LlamaCon, then announcing a standalone Meta AI app for consumers. The major LlamaCon announcements:A Llama API (in limited preview), combining closed model API features with open-source flexibility for easy API key creation and interactive model playgrounds.
The Problem with AGI Predictions

2 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across AI 2027, a forecast of near-term AI progress that predicts we'll reach AGI around 2027, and (in the worst-case scenario) human extinction by 2030. My reaction to it was similar to my response to other AGI timelines I’ve read: that it was somewhere between science fiction and delusion. But as I dug deeper into the project, I learned something interesting about its lead author, Daniel Kokotajlo.
AI Roundup 115: US v. Google

2 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Google has been in court all week as part of an ongoing antitrust trial. While the biggest headlines are around Chrome and search, there have also been plenty of interesting AI developments. Between the lines:Google apparently has a deal with Samsung (for "an enormous amount of money") to preinstall Gemini on its devices - a similar Motorola deal appears to have dashed Perplexity's attempts to be the default Motorola AI assistant.
AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks

3 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

OpenAI has dominated the headlines this week, with not one but five new model releases, plus a new developer tool. What to watch:GPT-4.1 (in standard, mini, and nano sizes), the successor to GPT-4o with a million-token context window. Interestingly, this model is being made available via the API but not ChatGPT, and it breaks Sam Altman's previous statement that the next GPT-series model would include reasoning.
The MCP Revolution

4 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

When Claude gained the ability to search the web, many people (including me) thought: "finally." It was a capability that users had wanted since the chatbot's launch, and besides, competitors like ChatGPT and Gemini had had similar search tools for months. But what many didn't realize was that Claude already could search the web.
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day

1 month ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

In the chaotic aftermath of President Trump's new tariff policies, Semianalysis has put together an excellent deep dive into what they mean for AI infrastructure. The big picture:The tariffs are currently set to 145% on Chinese imports and 10-50% on other countries, though semiconductors and Mexico/Canada trade have key exemptions.
Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble

1 month ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo |Nathan Lambert

Meta's Llama 4 launch should have been a triumphant moment for open-weight AI. Instead, it's become a showcase of how technical excellence can be undermined by rushed execution and communication missteps (and why taking shortcuts may be the natural response to increasing competitive pressures). In the days since Meta (unexpectedly) released its newest AI model family over the weekend, the company's narrative has been at odds with the community's reception.
AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro

1 month ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Google dropped Gemini 2.5 Pro, its latest reasoning model with deeply impressive benchmark scores. What to watch:Going by the benchmarks, Gemini 2.5 Pro is a GPT-4.5 class model — yet it seems to be garnering far less attention than GPT-4.5 or even Claude 3.7 Sonnet (early reviews, however, are quite good). Google's ever-growing array of models, from Gemini Flash to Gemini Thinking Experimental to its Gemma series, likely contributes to that.