Index#

The current chapters are:

Situational Context #
The initial AI landscape in early 2023, when ChatGPT and GPT-4 had just changed the world.
The Capture of GPT-4 #
The desperate race to catch up with OpenAI’s technology begins on all fronts.
The Mission Bay Incident #
The firing and swift reinstatement of Sam Altman, along with the consequences that followed.
The Coral #
The blossoming of a broad ecosystem in AI-powered image generation.
I’ve Got You #
The arrival of the first LLM to seriously compete with OpenAI.
All Flavors, Please #
The promise of a multimodal future that never fully came to pass.
The Different One #
Claude as a superior alternative to the hegemonic ChatGPT, especially for coding.
The Broadcaster I See #
A review of the development of AI models for video generation, from Sora to Veo 3.
The New Paradigm (Test Time Compute)#
The emergence of reasoning models and OpenAI’s O series.
The Whale #
The DeepSeek phenomenon that embarrassed American technology in the eyes of the mainstream.
Agents and Products #
The state of the long-promised autonomous agents and the products born alongside AI.
The Invasion of the Central Nation #
China’s absolute dominance in the open-source AI field.
Flames On #
Image generation and editing in natural language as an extension of multimodal LLMs.
The Wall #
Is AI hitting a wall, or are we just seeing diminishing returns?
A Story of Fall and Rise #
A brief look at how Google went from the failure of Bard to leadership with Gemini 3 Pro.
A Story of Rise and Fall #
A brief look at how Meta went from the success of Llama 2 to the disaster of Llama 4.
A Story of Rise and Rise #
A brief look at how Elon Musk founded xAI and reached the top in just two years.
The 7T Theory #
The astronomical amount of money being invested in AI infrastructure.
The Counterculture #
Movements with ideas opposed to those of the major AI labs.
Hardware and Robotics #
The state of hardware, the promise of robotics, and radical experiments in chips.
Eyes of the Void #
The impact of AI on science, from AlphaFold 2 to models that win Olympiads.
The Embodiment of AI #
Attempts to create new physical devices for interacting with AI.
Hot Research Topics #
Open questions and active areas where capital is being invested to overcome current LLM limitations.