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Understanding OpenAI’s pivot to releasing open source models

Ben Dickson — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:22:54 +0000

OpenAI’s shift to an open language model signals vulnerability; the once-exclusive leader now grapples with competitive openness and market evolution.

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How OpenAI is building its moat

Ben Dickson — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000

With OpenAI's dominance of frontier large language models eroding, here is how the company is building its AI moat at the application and integration layers.

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The winners and losers of the DeepSeek-R1 shockwave

Ben Dickson — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:31:41 +0000

DeepSeek reshuffled the AI markets with the release of its R1 large reasoning model. Here is how OpenAI, Anthropic, and other players in the field are affected.

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The growing rift between Microsoft and OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:09:32 +0000

Microsoft's growing independence from OpenAI signals a brewing rivalry. As the AI market evolves, the future of their partnership looks shaky.

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How to choose metrics for your machine learning projects

Ben Dickson — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:05:48 +0000

Think of business goals and interventions before determining your ML metrics.

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OpenAI could undercut Microsoft with new ChatGPT app for Windows

Ben Dickson — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:44:39 +0000

A native ChatGPT app for Windows can come at the expense of Microsoft's Copilot ecosystem.

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The price of OpenAI’s $150 billion valuation

Ben Dickson — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:06:12 +0000

On its path to $150 billion valuation, OpenAI transformed itself and the industry without securing future success.

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Will frontier labs survive the generative AI arms race?

Ben Dickson — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 08:12:04 +0000

Frontier AI labs are enjoying the hype surrounding generative models to absorb funding and train new models. But what will happen when the money dries up?

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Microsoft vs Apple consumer AI race, part deux

Ben Dickson — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:55:15 +0000

In its race with Microsoft for consumer AI, Apple made great progress with the introduction of Apple Intelligence at WWDC. But the race is far from over.

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Perplexity Pages shows new option for building LLM moats

Ben Dickson — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:44:34 +0000

Perplexity Pages changes large language model (LLM) chatbots from content providers to content creators. It can be Perplexity's moat against competitors.

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Why OpenAI did not release a native ChatGPT app for Windows

Ben Dickson — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:19:36 +0000

OpenAI released a native macOS app, even though its main financial backer is Microsoft. But Microsoft seems to be the strategical winner of this move.

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What OpenELM language models say about Apple’s generative AI strategy

Ben Dickson — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Apple has released the full code, weights, checkpoints, and more for OpenELM, its latest language models. Here is what it means for its generative AI strategy.

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Will large language models kill Medium’s business model?

Ben Dickson — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:50:33 +0000

Medium is struggling to adapt its Partner Program to the deluge of LLM-written content. Here is what it means for centralized content platforms.

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What the Microsoft-Mistral AI partnership means for the LLM market

Ben Dickson — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Both Microsoft and Mistral AI stand to gain from their new partnership. But the bigger winner will be Microsoft with its enterprise LLM offerings.

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What to expect of Microsoft’s “cheaper generative AI” efforts

Ben Dickson — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:34:44 +0000

Microsoft is reportedly assembling a team to create "cheaper generative AI" systems. Here is what to expect from them.

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How integration wars will reshape the generative AI market

Ben Dickson — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:04:52 +0000

As integrating LLMs and generative AI takes center stage, the winners will no longer be the biggest and best models.

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Microsoft is using Llama, reducing its dependence on OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:44:15 +0000

Microsoft has a huge investment in OpenAI. But it is already preparing itself for the huge shifts coming to the market.

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How OpenAI is building its moat

Ben Dickson — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 15:31:33 +0000

As open-source LLMs take away the advantage of ChatGPT, OpenAI is building new moats to protect its generative AI business.

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How Microsoft is building an AI moat with Copilot

Ben Dickson — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:16:41 +0000

Microsoft is shaping its AI strategy around the "Copilot" brand to protect its business against competitors, including OpenAI.

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How OpenAI uses network effects to protect ChatGPT’s market

Ben Dickson — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 14:02:27 +0000

ChatGPT is facing severe competition from other closed- and open-source LLMs. Here is how OpenAI is using network effects to solidify its market share.

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Enterprise generative AI: Take or shape?

Rich Heimann — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Should you use an off-the-shelf generative model or fine-tune one for the needs of your company? Rich Heimann explains in his latest article.

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Apple’s AI strategy

Ben Dickson — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000

One thing missing from Apple WWDC 2023 was "artificial intelligence." But this doesn't mean Apple is not into AI. It just has a different perspective on it.

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The uncomfortable truth of Microsoft’s Build Conference

Ben Dickson — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

One thing that stood out in this year's Build conference was the major role that OpenAI's language models are playing in Microsoft's product strategy.

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Revisiting Google’s AI moat after I/O 2023

Ben Dickson — Mon, 15 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

At I/O 2023, Google showed that it can catch up with Microsoft/OpenAI in generative AI. But new markets are yet to emerge.

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How open-source LLMs are challenging OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft

Ben Dickson — Mon, 08 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Until recently, it seemed that big tech companies would monopolize the market for large language models. Open-source LLMs are changing that.

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How Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI put it ahead in the AI race

Ben Dickson — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Three years later after investing in OpenAI, Microsoft has turned the partnership into a successful business with billions of dollars in profits.

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The fast-changing commercial AI landscape

Ben Dickson — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000

From Amazon’s new AI products to the merger of Google Brain and DeepMind, here’s a recap of the latest developments in the AI arms race and their implications.

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Customers: AI is our ally

Contributor — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:00:00 +0000

AI tools like GPT-3 are capable of reading and understanding what an entire customer base is saying and becoming their best advocate.

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Best practices for deploying AI within large organizations

Contributor — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:00:35 +0000

Developing AI products within large organizations is a completely different process than developing stand-alone solutions within start-ups or writing code for your Ph.D. work for that matter.

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Google vs Microsoft: The good, bad, and ugly of the AI arms race

Ben Dickson — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000

The AI competition between Microsoft and Google can have positive results for online search. But it also has bad outcomes for AI research and even uglier results for users.

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Will this be the fate of all AI labs?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Google's $300-million investment in Anthropic AI is exemplary of how the arms race between tech giants is affecting AI labs.

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Microsoft moves closer to acquiring OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Microsoft's latest investment in OpenAI brings it closer to acquire the AI lab.

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What happens to OpenAI if it reaches $29 billion in valuation

Ben Dickson — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's latest capital will put the company on the path to fast growth and accelerated profitability. But how will it affect the scientific mission that the AI lab embarked on in 2015?

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Why applied artificial intelligence needs a major mind-shift

Ben Dickson — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000

"Power and Prediction" explores the fundamental challenges standing in the way of AI adoption in different industries.

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Why Amazon Alexa (and other voice assistants) aren’t making money

Ben Dickson — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Amazon's $10-billion loss Alexa is a reminder of the gap between creating an impressive technology and building a business around it.

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The survivors of the AI investment downturn

Ben Dickson — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000

While the stagnation in AI funding will slow down the field, it is also forcing investors to focus more on AI initiatives that are more likely to reach a sustainable business model.

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What is Google’s generative AI strategy?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000

In this week’s AI@ ’22 conference, Google showed a glimpse of its roadmap for leveraging generative models in its products.

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DALL-E 2 on Microsoft Azure: the market for generative models matures

Ben Dickson — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The fast-paced evolution of DALL-E as a commercial product is a sign of the expansion of the market for generative AI models and the maturity of Microsoft’s long-term partnership with OpenAI.

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The growth stage of applied AI and MLOps

Ben Dickson — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000

After a decade of investment, research, and development of tools, the barriers to enterprise AI are slowly fading.

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Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot: the consolidation of the robotics industry

Ben Dickson — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 12:58:19 +0000

Amazon's acquisition of iRobot is a win-win for both companies, but indicates the further consolidation of robotics industry in big tech.

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GitHub Copilot is among the first real products based on large language models

Ben Dickson — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The public release of GitHub Copilot is an interesting case study in the development of successful products based on large language models.

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A framework for enterprise AI adoption

Ben Dickson — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Prashant Natarajan, Vice President of Strategy and Products at H2O.ai, introduces IMPACT, a general framework that can guide the adoption of AI in the enterprise.

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What Hugging Face and Microsoft’s collaboration means for applied AI

Ben Dickson — Tue, 31 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Hugging Face launched Endpoints on Azure in collaboration with Microsoft. But creating a business around transformers presents challenges that favor large tech companies and put companies like Hugging Face at a disadvantage.

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DALL-E 2, the future of AI research, and OpenAI’s business model

Ben Dickson — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000

OpenAI's DALL-E 2 shows how far the AI research community has come toward harnessing the power of deep learning and addressing some of its limits.

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DataRobot’s vision to democratize machine learning with no-code AI

Ben Dickson — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:58:08 +0000

Nenshad Bardoliwalla, chief product officer at DataRobot, discusses challenges machine learning in different sectors and how no-code platforms are helping democratize AI.

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AI’s J-curve and upcoming productivity boom

Ben Dickson — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses the productivity opportunities of artificial intelligence and the challenges caused by the J-curve.

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Where is the voice assistant industry headed?

Ben Dickson — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Thanks to the likes of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, voice tech has seen a huge rise in the past decade. But the voice assistant industry has yet to reach its full potential and it can become an integral part of many applications we use every day. In the next few years, we will see […]

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Amazon announces new machine learning products at re:Invent

Ben Dickson — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000

At this year's AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon announced new machine learning products, including a no-code ML tool, a data-labeling platform, and a service for optimizing the deployment of machine learning projects.

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Industrial computer vision is getting ready for growth

Ben Dickson — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Landing AI is one of several companies that is bringing computer vision to the industrial sector. As the market matures, it can bring great productivity, cost-efficiency, and safety to different industries.

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What GPT-3 on Azure will mean for Microsoft and OpenAI

Ben Dickson — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Microsoft's new Azure OpenAI Service will make GPT-3 available to enterprises. It will have important implications for Microsoft and OpenAI.

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