Life in the Singularity | Matt McDonagh | Substack

Our First Successful AI Research Run Proved Almost Nothing

Our first successful AI research run ended with a refusal.

Jul 12 • Matt McDonagh

Context Is the New Model Advantage

The market is slowly learning something interesting that the frontier model makers are going to need to develop an answer for soon:

Jul 11 • Matt McDonagh

Frontier AI vs Chinese AI vs Open Source Self-Hosted AI

Databricks just published the kind of benchmark that matters.

Jul 9 • Matt McDonagh

AI Leverage Is an Operating Model Problem

Every company has access to AI at this point.

Jul 8 • Matt McDonagh

When Cognitive Labor Becomes Abundant

A year ago, I wrote about the revenge of the generalist.

Jul 5 • Matt McDonagh

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