Zvi Mowshowitz

2 weeks ago | thezvi.substack.com | Zvi Mowshowitz

What did Google announce on I/O day? Quite a lot of things. Many of them were genuinely impressive. Google is secretly killing it on the actual technology front. Logan Kilpatrick (DeepMind): Google's progress in AI since last year:- The worlds strongest models, on pareto frontier- Gemini app: has over 400M monthly active users- We now process 480T tokens a month, up 50x YoY- Over 7M developers have built with the Gemini API (4x)Much more to come still!I think? It’s so hard to keep track.

2 weeks ago | thezvi.substack.com | Zvi Mowshowitz

Our government, having withdrawn the new diffusion rules, has now announced an agreement to sell massive numbers of highly advanced AI chips to UAE and Saudi Arabia (KSA). This post analyzes that deal and that decision.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Zvi Mowshowitz

9 hours agoOpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include …

1 month ago | thezvi.substack.com | Zvi Mowshowitz

GPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear. The results of this were rather ugly. You get extreme sycophancy. Absurd praise. Mystical experiences. (Also some other interesting choices, like having no NSFW filter, but that one’s good.)People like Janus and Near Cyan tried to warn us, even more than usual. Then OpenAI combined this with full memory, and updated GPT-4o sufficiently that many people (although not I) tried using it in the first place.

1 month ago | thezvi.substack.com | Zvi Mowshowitz

I love o3. I’m using it for most of my queries now. But that damn model is a lying liar. Who lies. This post covers that fact, and some related questions. The biggest thing to love about o3 is it just does things. You don’t need complex or multi-step prompting, ask and it will attempt to do things. Ethan Mollick: o3 is far more agentic than people realize. Worth playing with a lot more than a typical new model. You can get remarkably complex work out of a single prompt. It just does things.