Craig Smith

3 weeks ago | forbes.com | Craig Smith

In the glassy confines of Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, the third annual Runway AI Film Festival celebrated an entirely new art form. The winning film, Total Pixel Space, was not made in the traditional sense. It was conjured by Jacob Adler, a composer and educator from Arizona State University, stitched together from image generators, synthetic voices, and video animation tools — most notably Runway’s Gen-3, the company’s text-to-video model (Runway Gen-4 was released in March).

1 month ago | forbes.com | Craig Smith

Imagine for a moment you're flying over a city at night. Below you, thousands of buildings glitter with office lights. But inside many of them, the computers are dark, unused, and waiting. That's not a metaphor—it's a global inefficiency. The Uptime Institute estimates that nearly a third of the world's data center servers are underutilized or idle. McKinsey says most data centers run at just 40% of their capacity. And yet, the organizations that own them pay 100% of the cost.

2 months ago | forbes.com | Craig Smith

When Sam Altman posted a tweet one recent morning, few outside the artificial intelligence community fully grasped its significance. "People love MCP and we are excited to add support across our products," the OpenAI CEO wrote. The message itself was unremarkable – just another tech announcement on X – but its implications were anything but ordinary.

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Craig Smith

How A Simple Protocol Is Changing Everything About AIWhen Sam Altman posted a tweet one recent morning, few outside the artificial intelligence community fully grasped its significance. "People love MCP and we are excited to add support across our products," the OpenAI CEO wrote. The message itself was unremarkable – just another tech announcement on …

2 months ago | forbes.com | Craig Smith

How a team of scientists is peering into the brain of an artificial intelligence model—and what they’re finding is startlingly familiar.